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Author:

Unal, Burcu

Title:

Swelling and Mechanical Behavior of Ionizable Hydrogels Containing Highly Branched Polyamine Macromonomers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

end-linking
hydrogel
swelling
gel electrolyte
pH-dependence
dendrimer
rhizobia

File:

Download Burcu_Unal_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Erin Clare Hedden, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ronald C Hedden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member
Erwin A Vogler, Committee Member
Bruce Ernest Logan, Committee Member

Author:

Asay, David Benjamin

Title:

EFFECTS OF VAPOR-PHASE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTITUENTS ON MACRO- TO NANO-TRIBOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

friction
adhesion
wear
silicon
MEMS
vapor phase
lubrication
adsorption
water

File:

Download Asay_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Seong H Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Erwin A Vogler, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member

Author:

Ravi, Dhurjati

Title:

On the Permanent Life of Tissue Outside the Organism

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

bioreactors
bone tissue engineering
3D cell culture models
breast cancer metastasis

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Ravi_Nov19_2007.pdf

Committee Members:

Erwin A Vogler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Wencil Brown, Committee Member
Ronald Hedden, Committee Member
Kumble Sandeep Prabhu, Committee Member
Andrea Marie Mastro, Committee Member

Author:

Noh, Hyeran

Title:

Volumetric Interpretation of Protein Adsorption

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Biomaterial
Surface Chemistry
Competitive Adsorption
Protein
Biocompatibility

File:

Download Hyeran_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Erwin A Vogler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Committee Member

Author:

Sturgeon, Jacqueline Lee

Title:

Formation of hydroxyapatite in various aqueous solutions

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

hydroxyapatite
calcium phosphate cement
biomaterials
fluorapatite
carbonated apatite
phosphonate

File:

Download JSturgeonThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Wencil Brown, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Della M Roy, Committee Member
Erwin A Vogler, Committee Member
Neil Sharkey, Committee Member

Author:

Chatterjee, Kaushik

Title:

SURFACE-MEDIATED MOLECULAR EVENTS IN MATERIAL-INDUCED BLOOD-PLASMA COAGULATION

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

blood coagulation
contact activation
protein adsorption
intrinsic coagulation cascade
factor XII
plasma proteases

File:

Download thesis_kaushik_chatterjee.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Erwin A Vogler, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Alan J Stenger, Committee Member
Ira Joseph Ropson, Committee Member

Author:

Diggs, Tanisha

Title:

Contact Activation of Blood-Plasma Coagulation

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

plasma
coagulation
FXII
FXIIa
FXIIf
contact activation
blood
hemocompatible biomaterials

File:

Download Tanisha_Diggs_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Erwin A Vogler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Suriyapraphadilok, Uthaiporn

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF COAL- AND PETROLEUM-DERIVED BINDER PITCHES AND THE INTERACTION OF PITCH/COKE MIXTURES IN PRE-BAKED CARBON ANODES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

pitch-coke interaction
coal tar pitch
petroleum pitch
1H high temperature NMR
pitch characterization
pre-baked carbon anode

File:

Download Suriyapraphadilok_Summer2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul C Painter, Committee Member
Erwin A Vogler, Committee Member
Karl Todd Mueller, Committee Member