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CATALYTIC ACYLATION, HYDROGENATION AND HYDRODEOXYGENATION OF LIGNIN-DERIVED AROMATIC MOLECULES
(2018-05-12)
Lignin-derived phenolic molecules are studied for three different chemistries including acylation, hydrogenation and hydrodeoxygenation. Acylation is an effective C-C bond forming reaction to condense acetic acid and ...
Effects of Short Exposure to High Shear on Neutrophil State and Function
(2018)
Cardiovascular disease is an ever expanding global issue. Many pathological conditions have been recently linked to elevated local shear rates (>3,000 s-1). Such vulnerable regions have also been found in mechanical support ...
CYCLOPENTANONE ALDOL CONDENSATION – EFFECTS OF SURFACE SILANIZATION, ACETONE AND WATER CO-FEEDING ON CATALYTIC BEHAVIORS OF MAGNESIUM OXIDE-BASED SOLIDS
(2018)
Cyclopentanone is a promising building block in the conversion of biomass to fuels. It can be readily obtained from furanics derived from biomass and can be converted to intermediate products in the molecular weight range ...
MEASURING MONOMER-MICELLE EQUILIBRIUM BY USING SEMI-EQUILIBRIUM DIALYSIS
(2011)
Monomer-micelle equilibrium, the distribution of surfactant species between the monomer and the micelles in solution, dictates many important physical properties of surfactants. Although monomer-micelle equilibrium ...
LOCAL FLUID STRESS AND NUTRIENT TRANSPORT EFFECTS VIA SIMULATIONS OF PERFUSION THROUGH BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING SCAFFOLDS
(2010)
Lattice Boltzmann Method and Lagrangian Scalar Tracking simulations were performed in order to characterize the mechanical and chemical microenvironments within two different types of bone tissue engineering polymer ...
Fischer-Tropsch synthesis on carbon nanotube-supported catalysts in water-in-oil emulsion
(2013-12-04)
Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) is an important gas-to-liquids technology in the modern energy industry. The current trend is to carry it out in liquid reaction media in order to take advantage of good heat transfer, high ...
Kinetics and Solvent Effects on Supported Metal Catalysts for Biomass Conversion
(2018)
Energy conversion using renewable biomass has significant environmental impact. To acquire high value products using preliminary processed biomass, considerable amount of upgrading reactions has been conducted in liquid-phase ...
TENDON TISSUE ENGINEERING: AN INVESTIGATION INTO ENHANCED BIOREACTOR CULTURE AND CONSTRUCT STIMULATION TECHNIQUES
(2014-06)
Tendon tissue engineering is a field that arose as there became a need for alternatives for surgical grafts utilized in injured tendon treatments. This is due to either underperforming current technology of off the shelf ...
METAL OXIDE NANOPARTICLES: WETTABILITY MODIFICATION FOR EMULSION STABILIZATION AND ELECTROSTATICALLY INDUCED GELATION
(2015)
Mixtures of fumed metal oxide nanoparticles (np’s) dispersed in water, at a solution pH where one species is positively charged and the other is negatively charged, form pseudo-solid gels at volume fractions as low as 1.5 ...
Sulfoxide Surfactants
(2018-08)
A novel group of nonionic surfactants, which we term ester sulfoxides, derived from 2-hydroxy-4-(methylthio) butyric acid are characterized in this thesis. The physico-chemical properties, equilibrium and dynamic properties, ...