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100163 - Materials Strategic Growth Area Research Workshop
(VT Continuing and Professional Education, 2016)The Economical and Sustainable Materials Strategic Growth Area (Materials SGA) is committed to the development of cross-disciplinary teams that will tackle critical scientific materials challenges related to our pillars ... -
3D Bioprinted Human Skeletal Muscle Constructs for Muscle Function Restoration
(Springer Nature, 2018-08-17)A bioengineered skeletal muscle tissue as an alternative for autologous tissue flaps, which mimics the structural and functional characteristics of the native tissue, is needed for reconstructive surgery. Rapid progress ... -
Additive manufacturing of complex micro-architected graphene aerogels
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018-08-13)3D graphene foams exhibit immense degradation of mechanical properties. Micro-architecture can alleviate this problem, but no current technique meets the manufacturing requirements. Herein we developed a light-based 3D ... -
Adsorbing/dissolving Lyoprotectant Matrix Technology for Non-cryogenic Storage of Archival Human Sera
(Springer Nature, 2016-04-12)Despite abundant research conducted on cancer biomarker discovery and validation, to date, less than two-dozen biomarkers have been approved by the FDA for clinical use. One main reason is attributed to inadvertent use of ... -
Adsorption of Xyloglucan onto Thin Films of Cellulose Nanocrystals and Amorphous Cellulose: Film Thickness Effects
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Ambient ammonia synthesis via palladium-catalyzed electrohydrogenation of dinitrogen at low overpotential
(Springer Nature, 2018-05-15)Electrochemical reduction of N2 to NH3 provides an alternative to the Haber−Bosch process for sustainable, distributed production of NH3 when powered by renewable electricity. However, the development of such process has ... -
Amphiphilic hydroxyalkyl cellulose derivatives for amorphous solid dispersion prepared by olefin cross-metathesis
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016-07-07)Olefin cross-metathesis (CM) has enabled design and synthesis of diverse, amphiphilic cellulose ether derivatives (e.g. of ethyl and methyl cellulose). In this paper, hydroxyalkyl cellulose was selected as a hydrophilic ... -
An Update on Protein and Amino Acid Nutrition
(Virginia Tech. Department of Dairy Science, 2017-02-16)Summary - AA are very, very important! - Representation of effects is complicated - Multiple AA - Energy - Hormones - Integrated response - Nyet on the barrel with broken staves - Can’t be done by guess and by golly - ... -
Analysis of electricity consumption: a study in the wood products industry
(2016-10)This paper evaluates the effect of industry segment, year, and US region on electricity consumption per employee, per dollar sales, and per square foot of plant area for wood products industries. Data was extracted from ... -
Bioelectrochemical production of hydrogen in an innovative pressure-retarded osmosis/microbial electrolysis cell system: experiments and modeling
(Biomed Central Ltd, 2015-08-14)Background While microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) can simultaneously produce bioelectrochemical hydrogen and treat wastewater, they consume considerable energy to overcome the unfavorable thermodynamics, which is not ... -
Block copolymer derived uniform mesopores enable ultrafast electron and ion transport at highmass loadings
(Nature Research, 2019)High mass loading and fast charge transport are two crucial but often mutually exclusive characteristics of pseudocapacitors. On conventional carbon supports, high mass loadings inevitably lead to sluggish electron conduction ... -
Boosting the Power-Generation Performance of Micro-Sized Al-H2O2 Fuel Cells by Using Silver Nanowires as the Cathode
(MDPI, 2018-09-03)Micro-sized fuel cells represent one of the pollution-free devices available to power portable electronics. However, the insufficient power output limits the possibility of micro-sized fuel cells competing with other power ... -
Broadband/Wideband Magnetoelectric Response
(Hindawi, 2012-04-08)A broadband/wideband magnetoelectric (ME) composite offers new opportunities for sensing wide ranges of both DC and AC magnetic fields. The broadband/wideband behavior is characterized by flat ME response over a given AC ... -
Characterization of Particle Emissions and Fate of Nanomaterials During Incineration
(The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014-01-24)As the use of nanotechnology in consumer products continues to grow, it is inevitable that some nanomaterials will end up in the waste stream and will be incinerated. Through laboratory-scale incineration of paper and ... -
Choosing the Right Liquid Feed for Your Calves
(Virginia Tech. Department of Dairy Science, 2017-02-16)The primary messages of this presentation are that there are any good options for liquid diets to feed calves. One should stay away from unpasteurized waste milk! Pasteurized waste milk is a decent option, and it is, at ... -
Coenzyme Engineering of a Hyperthermophilic 6-Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase from NADP(+) to NAD(+) with Its Application to Biobatteries
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016-11-02)Engineering the coenzyme specificity of redox enzymes plays an important role in metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and biocatalysis, but it has rarely been applied to bioelectrochemistry. Here we develop a rational ... -
Combinatory Finite Element and Artificial Neural Network Model for Predicting Performance of Thermoelectric Generator
(MDPI, 2018-08-24)Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) are rapidly becoming the mainstream technology for converting thermal energy into electrical energy. The rise in the continuous deployment of TEGs is related to advancements in materials, ... -
Composition Systematics in the Exoskeleton of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus and Implications for Malacostraca
(Frontiers, 2019-04-05)Studies of biominerals from the exoskeletons of lobsters and other crustaceans report chemical heterogeneities across disparate body parts that have prevented the development of composition-based environmental proxy models. ... -
Controlling Morphological Parameters of Anodized Titania Nanotubes for Optimized Solar Energy Applications
(MDPI, 2012-10-19)Anodized TiO2 nanotubes have received much attention for their use in solar energy applications including water oxidation cells and hybrid solar cells [dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) and bulk heterojuntion solar cells ... -
Cooperative electrochemical water oxidation by Zr nodes and Ni–porphyrin linkers of a PCN-224 MOF thin film
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016-10-06)Here, we demonstrate a new strategy for cooperative catalysis and proton abstraction via the incorporation of independent species competent in the desired reactivity into a metal–organic framework (MOF) thin film. The ...
