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- Title
- CARBON NANOTUBE GROWTH, DISPERSION, AND USE IN NANOELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATORS
- Author
- Forney, Michael
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Nanoscience
- Description
- The body of research comprising this dissertation spans the full spectrum of carbon nanotube (CNT) research: growth of CNTs, dispersion of SWNTs, controlled aggregation of SWNTs, and fabrication of CNT-based actuators. CNTs have been grown in our ...
- Title
- Comparison of Hydrogen Peroxide Quenching with Activated Carbon and Mineral Catalysts
- Author
- Gleason, Justine
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental engineering
- Description
- Advanced oxidation is an advanced water treatment process used for treating impaired drinking water sources, among other applications. Commonly, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is used with ultraviolet (UV) light to create hydroxyl radicals that oxidize ...
- Title
- DESIGN, TOLERANCING, AND EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF DYNAMIC FREEFORM OPTICAL SYSTEMS
- Author
- Shultz, Jason
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics, Engineering, Physics
- Description
- Although freeform concepts have been considered for many decades, new fabrication capabilities have enabled new classes of optical components and sparked greatly increased interest in freeform optics. Generally defined as surfaces without rotation...
- Title
- Emerging Challenges in Landfill Leachate Quality and Ability of Fungal Bioreactors to Address Them
- Author
- Rezaei Adaryani, Amirhossein
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental engineering
- Description
- Landfill sites, that are the ultimate depository of solid waste stream in most societies, have the potential to generate leachate containing a complex mixture of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) such as pharmaceutical compounds, plasticizer...
- Title
- Energetic Theory and Hadley Cells at a Seasonal Scale: How Will ITCZ respond to a Warming Climate
- Author
- Bai, Xiaoyu
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Atmospheric science
- Description
- The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), a belt of convective systems around the equator with showers and thunderstorms, is an important feature not only to the tropical societies whose water budget depends on it, but also to the atmospheric sci...
- Title
- Environmentally Sustainable Synthesis of Novel Nano Assisted Ion Exchange Systems for Facile and High-capacity Water Purification
- Author
- Sahu, Abhispa
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Nanoscience
- Description
- Demand for clean and safe drinking water is a global challenge because of water scarcity, growth of human population, urbanization, and anthropogenic pollution. Purification of water involves removal of small molecules and ions from ground water a...
- Title
- How the Brewing Industry Can Support a Circular Economy in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
- Author
- Hendren, Heather
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental engineering, Civil engineering, Economics
- Description
- This research investigates beer production in Mecklenburg County and its impact on water demand, and waste production, with a specific focus on how beer production fits into Charlotte’s public strategy of a Circular Economy. Charlotte adopted a Ci...
- Title
- Independent Screening for Nonparametric Additive Cox Model
- Author
- Yu, Sha
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Statistics
- Description
- Survival data with ultrahigh dimensional covariates are increasingly common recently due to the rapid development in technologies. It is challenging to model them using survival models in order to understand the association between covariate infor...
- Title
- MECHANISTIC STUDY OF SELF-ASSEMBLED TUNGSTEN NANOGRATINGS ON SOLIDS INDUCED BY FEMTOSECOND LASER BEAM
- Author
- Tang, Mingzhen
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics
- Description
- This dissertation describes a mechanistic study on the spontaneous formation of tungsten nanograting induced by a 400 nm femtosecond laser beam on solids observed in laser induced chemical vapor deposition configuration. The formed tungsten nanogr...
- Title
- PHARMACEUTICALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: PREVIOUSLY UNRECOGNIZED SOURCES IN WATER RESOURCES
- Author
- NETH, NICOLE
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Environmental engineering, Water resources development--Management
- Description
- It is known that wastewater treatment plants are one of the major routes through which pharmaceuticals enter the environment. The following work investigated the effect of previously unrecognized sources of pharmaceuticals that enter water resourc...
- Title
- Synthesis and characterization of single-walled carbon nanotubes for use in water purification
- Author
- Johnson, Billy
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science, Nanoscience, Chemistry
- Description
- As human health concerns over disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in drinking water increase, so does the need to development new materials that remove them rapidly and at high-efficiency. Ion exchange (IEX) is an effective method for the removal of na...
- Title
- The Role of Environmental Buffers in Potable Water Reuse
- Author
- Brown, Xueying
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Water resources development--Management
- Description
- Conventional drinking water resources are not a sustainable solution to supply the rapidly growing populations in traditionally arid states. These areas, as well as others around the world, are increasingly reliant on recycling treated municipal e...
- Title
- The impact of redox conditions on OH• scavenging in surface water matrix and implications for testing of scavenging
- Author
- Nguyen, Jenny
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental engineering
- Description
- Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) in water treatment utilizes chemical oxidation to react with and promote the degradation of trace contaminants present in wastewater. Hydroxyl radicals (OH•) generated in AOPs are highly reactive and nonselectiv...
- Title
- Treatment of Algal Toxins in Drinking Water with UV-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes
- Author
- Barancheshme, Fateme
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
- Description
- The occurrence of algal blooms and the possibility of production of algal toxins and contamination of drinking water resources have become a significant concern worldwide. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are currently known as one of the most ...
- Title
- USING COMPOUND-SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS (CSIA) AND FATE AND TRANSPORT MODELING TO QUANTIFY THE MASS CONTRIBUTION OF COMINGLED CHLORINATED ETHENE PLUMES
- Author
- Shiflet, Jason
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Hydrology, Environmental geology, Geochemistry
- Description
- Chlorinated solvents are present in soil and groundwater at thousands of sites across the United States. Resolving the remedial and fiscal responsibility of multiple potentially responsible parties at sites containing comingled chlorinated ethene ...