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Synthesis and Applications of Non-spherical Dimer Colloids
(2012-10-18)
Colloids are promising building blocks in material synthesis because of their controllability of size and surface properties. The synthesis of chemically and/or geometrically anisotropic colloidal particles has received ...
Computational Environment Design
(2012-10-26)
The Internet has evolved into a platform on which large numbers of individuals take action and join in collaborations via crowdsourcing, social media, and electronic commerce. When designing social and economic systems on ...
Computational Questions in Evolution
(2012-10-23)
Darwin's theory (1859) proposes that evolution progresses by the survival of those individuals in the population that have greater fitness. Modern understanding of Darwinian evolution is that variation in phenotype, or ...
Hyperpolarized Silicon Particles as In-vivo Imaging Agents
(2012-11-02)
This thesis describes the development of hyperpolarized silicon particles as a new type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) agent. Silicon particles are inexpensive, non-toxic, biodegradable, targetable, and have unique ...
Self-Organization of Bioinspired Fibrous Surfaces
(2012-09-18)
Nature uses fibrous surfaces for a wide range of functions such as sensing, adhesion, structural color, and self-cleaning. However, little is known about how fiber properties enable them to self-organize into diverse and ...