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Description:: This thesis presents a new self-assembling robotic system that diverges from traditional approaches by enabling robots to build structures not constrained to a lattice and formed based on environmental conditions, rather than on a priori blueprints. Robot self-assembly is a class of behavior in swarm robotics in which many robots...
Keyword:: Attachment, Self-assembly, Locomotion, Robot, Climbing, and Algorithm
Subject:: Robotics and Design
Creator:: Swissler, Petras Juozas
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16195 and etdadmin_upload_924376

Description:: The building blocks of life are proteins. These incredible nanostructures are responsible for forming the diverse infrastructure of living systems and for performing countless biological functions. In Nature, these materials and systems achieve structural complexity and function through highly regulated and controlled assembly of protein building blocks, driven by specific...
Keyword:: Hierarchical, Supramolecular , Proteins, and Self-assembly
Subject:: Nanotechnology and Chemistry
Creator:: Hayes, Oliver George
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_835884 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15660

Description:: As the pursuit for higher performance and lower cost photovoltaics, and for new applications of optoelectronic devices moves beyond crystalline silicon, there are many unique opportunities for materials research into hybrid organic-inorganic, and organic semiconductors. This dissertation focuses on both hybrid organic-inorganic materials and organic materials for optoelectronic applications. In...
Keyword:: Perovskite, Self-assembly, and Ferroelectric
Subject:: Inorganic chemistry and Materials Science
Creator:: Passarelli, James
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_797908 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15491

Description:: Self-assembly of colloidal particles at the nano- and microscale has been a powerful tool for producing structures with emergent properties in applications ranging from electro-mechanical systems to photonics and biomedical devices. Great success has been achieved in experiments, where a variety of exotic phases have been discovered and even reconfigurable...
Keyword:: Soft materials, Computer simulation, Nanoparticles, Self-assembly, and Electrostatics
Subject:: Materials Science and Computational physics
Creator:: Wang, Ziwei
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_747162 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15154

Description:: Biomaterials have immense potential for studying fundamental biological processes and developing therapies to help regenerate or replace the structure and function of injured tissues. In order to accomplish this, they need to be designed to mimic the structure and function of Nature’s most important material, the extracellular matrix (ECM) surrounding...
Keyword:: Peptide Amphiphile, Growth Factor, Aptamer, Biomaterials, Self-assembly, and Extracellular Matrix
Subject:: Materials Science
Creator:: Serrano, Christopher
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_681720 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14779

Description:: Soft materials such as colloids and polymers often exhibit a variety of mesoscopic structures that are governed merely by weak physical interactions. Due to these intermediate structures, they can be easily taken out of thermal equilibrium by introducing external stimuli such as a shear flow and electromagnetic fields. This thesis...
Keyword:: Phase transition, Nonequilibrium dynamics, Coarse-grained simulations, Self-assembly, Soft matter, and Machine Learning
Subject:: Materials Science, Computational physics, and Statistical physics
Creator:: Han, Ming
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14411 and etdadmin_upload_618073

Description:: Organic photovoltaic (OPV) solar cells aim to provide efficient, flexible and lightweight photovoltaics (PV) with simple processing and low-cost. Advances in device optimization, structural and molecular design, as well as mechanistic understanding have helped increase device efficiency and performance. Within the framework of active layer optimization, systematically improving bulk heterojunction...
Keyword:: bulk heterojunction, solar cell, Self-assembly, hydrogen bonding, morphology, and Organic photovoltaic
Subject:: Materials Science and Engineering
Creator:: Taner Aytun
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/19/2018
Date Modified:: 02/19/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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