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Description:: Over the past decade, nanotwinned metals have attracted considerable attention due to their exceptional mechanical properties, such as ultra-high strength, good tensile ductility, high fracture …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Yin, Sheng (creator); Kim, Kyung-Suk (Reader); Kumar, Sharvan (Reader); Gao, Huajian (Advisor); Brown University. Engineering: Mechanics of Solids (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Biomechanics; Molecular dynamics--Computer simulation; Nanowires; Plasticity; Dislocations in metals; Metals--Hydrogen embrittlement
Collection:: Engineering; Mechanics of Solids; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: The past decades have witnessed an increasing demand for characterizing mechanical properties of materials at small scales due to the miniaturization of devices. While tremendous …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Liu, Xing (creator); Gao, Huajian (Advisor); Sheldon, Brian (Reader); Padture, Nitin (Reader); Brown University. Engineering: Mechanics of Solids (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Machine Learning; Micromechanics; Materials--Mechanical properties; Mechanics--computational mechanics
Collection:: Engineering; Mechanics of Solids; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Mechanical degradation in electrodes could play important roles in the cycle lifetime of lithium-ion batteries. In this thesis, we analyze several mechanical degradation mechanisms in …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Guo, Kai (creator); Gao, Huajian (Advisor); Sheldon, Brian (Reader); Kim, Kyung-Suk (Reader); Brown University. School of Engineering (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Solid Mechanics; Lithium ion batteries; Solid Electrolyte Interphase; Fracture mechanics; Electrodes
Collection:: Engineering; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: How nanomaterials interact with biological systems is of fundamental interest to a wide range of applications, including drug delivery, therapeutics, bioimaging, nanotoxicity and regulation. In …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Qian, Xuliang (creator); Gao, Huajian (Advisor); Kim, Kyung-Suk (Reader); Yu, Jing (Reader); Brown University. Engineering: Mechanics of Solids (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Biomechanics; Self-assembly; 2D Materials; Peptides; Molecular dynamics; nanomaterials; cell-nanomaterial interaction; Membranes (Biology); Coacervation; Liquid-phase exfoliation; Biosurfactants; Encapsulation; White Graphene
Collection:: Engineering; Mechanics of Solids; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Abstract of Mechanics of 2D Material Thin Films with Applications to Health and Nanofabrication Technologies, by Dong Li, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2021. By virtue …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Li, Dong (creator); Gao, Huajian (Advisor); Kim, Kyung-Suk (Reader); Hurt, Robert (Reader); Wei, Lei (Reader); Brown University. Engineering: Mechanics of Solids (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: 2D Materials; Soil mechanics
Collection:: Engineering; Mechanics of Solids; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Mechanical integrity is one of the most important goals which biological tissues and biomaterials aim to achieve in order to support the life processes inside …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Liu, Yue (creator); Gao, Huajian (Advisor); Henann, David (Reader); Wong, Ian (Reader); Brown University. School of Engineering (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Biomechanics; Biomedical materials; Cell membranes; Tissues--Mechanical properties; Membrane Mechanics
Collection:: Engineering; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Packing of flexible nanomaterials within soft confinement such as vesicles and cell membranes is of fundamental interest to the understanding of a wide range of …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Zou, Guijin (creator); Kim, Kyung-Suk (Reader); Hurt, Robert (Reader); Gao, Huajian (Advisor); Brown University. Engineering: Mechanics of Solids (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Biomechanics; Molecular dynamics--Computer simulation; Cell membranes; Anti-infective agents; cell-nanomaterial interaction; vesicle packing
Collection:: Engineering; Mechanics of Solids; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Metallic alloys including high strength steels, refractory alloys, metallic glasses, and high entropy alloys have attracted great research interests in the past decade due to …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: li, zhi (creator); Gao, Huajian (Advisor); Bower, Allan (Reader); Kumar, Sharvan (Reader); Brown University. Engineering: Mechanics of Solids (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Solid Mechanics; Dislocations in metals; Metals--Hydrogen embrittlement; Multiscale modeling; Fracture mechanics; Alloys
Collection:: Engineering; Mechanics of Solids; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit ultra-high strength due to their nearly perfect lattice structures but low fracture toughness due to their lack of effective energy dissipation …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Ni, Bo (creator); Gao, Huajian (Advisor); Kim, Kyung-Suk (Reader); Lou, Jun (Reader); Brown University. Engineering: Mechanics of Solids (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Fractures; 2D Materials; Instabilities
Collection:: Engineering; Mechanics of Solids; Theses and Dissertations

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