The accurate prediction of a complex fluid's equilibrium microstructure and corresponding thermodynamic properties relies on the capability to describe both the molecular level architecture and specific governing physics. ...

Tumor cell migration and invasion of body tissues are prerequisite mediators for lymphatic or hematogenous cancer dissemination. To date, there is insufficient understanding of what triggers the metastatic cascade, and of ...

Recent advances have elucidated the behavior of colloids and polymer systems in the archety pal three dimensions. However, these systems are ill-understood when confined to two dimensions. Using experimental techniques ...

This thesis uses surface sensitive tools to characterize the effect of a solid surface on immobilized biomacromolecules. This includes understanding how the surface can change the affinity of these macromolecules to small ...

Part I. We have investigated theoretically the interactions and phase transitions of arrays of magnetic nanoclusters embedded in nonmagnetic metals and semiconductors. Two nanoclusters of ferromagnetic elements embedded ...

Butadiene is a normal deleterious contaminant that must be removed from C$\sb4$-olefin streams before being used in several industrial applications. While this impurity is substantially eliminated by selective catalytic ...

Infinite-dilution fugacity coefficients were obtained for the binary system fluorene/phenanthrene at thirteen temperatures by fitting total pressure across the entire mole fraction range by a computer routine. A thermodynamically ...

The feasibility of culturing osteoblasts on biodegradable poly($\alpha$-hydroxy esters) to form new bone was investigated through a series of five studies. The first study demonstrated that rat calvarial osteoblasts attached, ...

Photocatalysis offers exciting opportunities in the development of a renewable energy source and environmentally-friendly chemical processes. Previous studies focused on titanium dioxide and non-oxide semiconductor ...