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Title: EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING MASS TRANSPORT AND CRYOPRESERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES
Author: Karthik Kumar, Balasubramanian
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: A bioreactor is a large-scale engineered in vitro device that maintains a 3D arrangement of functioning cells for use in various bioengineering applications. The current work is focused on heat and mass transfer issues related to the bioreactor's ...

Title: Effective Thermal Conductivity of Porous Materials using Maxwell's Methodology and Image-Based Finite Element Approach
Author: Balutkar, Vrushank Deepak
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The steady-state thermal response of solid materials is controlled by their thermal conductivity. For porous materials, the local thermal conductivity is difficult to use in the characterization of the overall thermal response and therefore, often...

Title: Folate Receptor-Specific, Redox-Responsive Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for the Simultaneous Delivery of Cisplatin and Gemcitabine to Treat Cancer
Author: Fink, Eric
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Chemistry, Biochemistry
Description: Nanoparticles are an innovative platform for cancer treatment that reduces systemic toxicity and allows for active targeting of tumor sites to enhance the therapeutic efficacy. Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have emerged as an attractive d...

Title: INTERLEUKIN-2 IN AQUEOUS AND LIPID ENVIRONMENTS: UNDERSTANDING MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS THAT IMPACT PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT
Author: Vrikkis, Regina
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Biomedical engineering, Pharmacy--Research
Description: The continued development of pharmaceutical recombinant proteins as therapeutics necessitates a full understanding of the biomolecular interactions impacting structural and functional protein stability within different environments. Two such envir...

Title: MODELING OF DRUG RELEASE KINETICS FROM POROUS CERAMIC DISKS
Author: Joshi, Apurva
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The use of biomaterials as drug delivery systems (DDS) eliminates the adverse side effects of systemic drug administration. Silica-based bioceramics have been widely studied as DDS and demonstrated a unique ability for controlled drug release loca...

Title: Moisture sorption behavior, stability, and protein formulation characteristics of a trehalose choline chloride eutectic composition
Author: Burgin, Tiffany
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Materials science, Biochemistry
Description: Protein based drugs and therapeutics are an important treatment for many life-threatening diseases but they can also be extremely expensive. The unique 3-dimensional structure of a protein is responsible for its function but also contributes to it...

Title: SPATIAL AND SITING ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABLE BIOMASS BASELOAD POWER GENERATION FOR NIGERIA
Author: Akinde, Adedolapo
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Power resources, Environmental management
Description: A new dawn in Nigeria’s power generation landscape requires renewable energy development. Episodic power supply, and too frequent outages characterizes the centralized power grid in Nigeria, thus frustrating efforts towards economic development. T...

Title: The Determination of Temperature-dependent CPA Diffusion Properties in Feline Testicular Tissue
Author: Kirkland, Kaitlyn
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Biomedical engineering
Description: Fertility preservation would benefit young males who must undergo treatments that can result in sterilization, such as radiation treatments for cancer. This can be achieved by removing some testicular tissue before treatment and putting it into fr...