Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Author "Clarke, David"
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Bacterial Approaches to the Recovery of Scarce Metals
Bonificio, William Daley (2015-05-05)Many of the scarcest metals are critical to future energy technologies. However, these metals often have limited supplies, and their current production and recycling methods are complicated and use toxic chemicals. In ... -
Buckling Induced Functionality in Soft Structures
Liu, Jia (2016-04-18)A variety of instabilities can be triggered when elastic structures are subjected to mechanical loadings. While such instabilities have traditionally been considered as a failure, a new trend is emerging in which the ... -
Nanocalorimetry Experiments and First-Principles Theoretical Studies of Solid-State Reactions in Nanolaminates
Lee, Dongwoo (2016-05-04)The extraordinary sensitivity and extremely small thermal mass of chip-based nanocalorimetry sensors allow the study of reactions in thin films over a broad range of heating rates, from isothermal to 10^5 K/s. First-principles ... -
Non-Linear Mechanics of Three-Dimensional Architected Materials; Design of Soft and Functional Systems and Structures
Babaee, Sahab (2016-09-07)In the search for materials with new properties, there have been significant advances in recent years aimed at the construction of architected materials whose behavior is governed by structure, rather than composition. ... -
Oxide Thermoelectrics: The Role of Crystal Structure on Thermopower in Strongly Correlated Spinels
Sparks, Taylor David (2012-08-10)This dissertation reports on the synthesis, structural and thermal characterization and electrical and thermal transport properties of a variety of strongly correlated spinels. General structure property relationships for ... -
Structure and Thermoelectric Properties of ZnO Based Materials
Liang, Xin (2013-10-18)The present dissertation investigates the relationship between the structure and thermoelectric properties of ZnO based materials, with a focus on trivalent element doping on engineering the microstructure and altering the ... -
Thin Film Complex Oxide Proton Conductors: Synthesis and Applications
Adam, Suhare A. (2016-05-17)The performance of ultra-thin film solid oxide fuel cells (μ-SOFC) is highly dependent on the structural, microstructural and transport properties of the electrolyte. The focus of this thesis is on understanding the effect ...