This thesis reports two new coating methods, Langmuir-Blodgett-Scooping (LBS) and Langmuir-Blodgett-Sequential-Dip-Coating (LBSDC), which allows one to efficiently create self-assembled, organized thin films of nanomaterials ...

From electric automobiles to high-speed phones, people are reliant on energy to power up advanced technology more than ever. As the world consumes more energy, scientists and industries are finding alternative energy sources ...

Self-assembly of semiconductor nanocrystals into superlattice has opened up the materials library by design. Driven by the complex interplay between nanocrystal, ligand, solvent and substrate, integration of nanostructures ...

Compared with conventional rigid robots, soft robots composed of intrinsically soft materials are featured with compliance independent of their shapes, good adaptability under different environments, and safer interaction ...

Initially, advances in the high frequency markets were begun by work in Gallium Arsenide systems. In recent years, however, the focus has shifted to the promise of ever higher power at ever higher frequency with the emergence ...

Due to their continuous and natural motion, fluidic elastomer actuators (FEAs) have shown potential in a range of robotic applications including prosthetics and orthotics. Despite their advantages and rapid developments, ...

A fundamental invariant of a subdivision of a space into cells is its collection of face numbers or f -vector. A major area of study is understanding the possible f -vectors of various types of subdivisions. Most of this ...

Although a wide variety of studies have been conducted to understand the numerous processes responsible for the transport of solutes and particulates through soils in order to prevent groundwater contamination, many gaps ...

Although stochastic volatility models and local volatility model are very popular among the market practitioner for exotic option pricing and hedging, they have several critical defects both in theory and practice. We ...