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3 min Research Talk: Predicting and Optimizing Solar Cell Performance with Material/Surface Characteristics
31 Jan 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Yiheng Zhu
Photovoltaic simulation tools can be utilized to predict device performance before fabrication and experimentation, streamline research processes, and interpret experimental results. Therefore, we developed ContourPV, which simulates various combinations of values of different device...
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3 min. Research Talk: Computational Catalysis - Creating a User-Friendly Tool for Research and Education
31 Jan 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Kevin Greenman
Heterogeneous catalysis is used in a significant portion of production processes in the industrialized world, which makes maximizing the efficiency of catalysts a high priority. However, the immense number of candidates for new catalysts precludes the possibility of testing all of them by...
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3 min. Research Talk: Phase Transforming Cellular Materials Simulator
31 Jan 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Gavin Carter
Materials with multiple phases are able to experience a multitude of loading and unloading forces. How the materials reacts is in part due to its geometrical design, along with the material properties. In this project, PXCM’s are utilized for there versatility in design capabilities.
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Phase Transforming Cellular Material Simulator
27 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Gavin Carter, Yunlan Zhang, Kristiaan William Hector, Pablo Daniel Zavattieri
Cellular material that exhibits phase transformations provide a variety of applications from the construction of medical casts to car bumpers. Materials with multiple phases are able to experience a multitude of loading and unloading forces. How the materials reacts is in part due to its...
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Phase Transforming Cellular Materials (Spherical Shells)
27 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Valeria Grillo, ASHLEY MIN, Gavin Carter, Yunlan Zhang, Kristiaan William Hector, David Restrepo Arango, Chidubem Nuela Enebechi, Pablo Daniel Zavattieri, Nilesh Mankame
“Phase transforming cellular materials (PXCMs) are a class of materials whose unit cells exhibit multiple configurations (metastable or bistable) [1]. The geometrical structure of the PXCM can change to increase the energy absorbed. The hysteretic nature of the PXCM makes the potential...
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AFM And EBSD Cross-Comparison Analysis Tool
14 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Andrew Martin Krawec, John Blendell, Matthew John Michie
Ceramic and semiconductor research is limited in its ability to create holistic representations of data in concise, easily-accessible file formats or visual data representations. These materials are used in everyday electronics, and optimizing their electrical and physical properties is...
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Developing a machine learning tool to optimize thermal transport
14 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Adam Sandor Garrett, proycho, Xiulin Ruan, creynolds
The purpose of this tool is to optimize SiGe super-lattices to have the lowest possible thermal conductivity. This poster describes the processes used in the tool and how it impacts thermoelectrics.
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Radiation Induced Segregation in Fe-Cr-Al Alloys
14 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Timothy Joe Pownell, Janelle P Wharry, Priyam Vivek Patki
This poster represents the results a summer long research project conducted by Timothy Pownell at the Purdue Nuclear Engineering Department. Specifically, the poster details the results and tool that were developed from data on Radiation Induced Segregation of the prospective cladding material...
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Building Nanohub Tool "Optical Properties of Single Coaxial Nanowires -LDOS and Purcell Factor"
14 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Sulaiman Abdul-Hadi, Amartya Dutta, Melissa P Cardona, Chen Yang
My project was to build a simulation tool for Nanohub.org. The tool that I made is called “Optical Properties of Single Coaxial Nanowires -LDOS and Purcell Factor”, or NWLDOS.
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Powder Compaction and Unloading Simulation Poster
08 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Jesse Lee Hoffman, Isabel Bojanini, Melanie Hacopian, Vidal Lopez, Caroline Baker, Marcial Gonzalez
This poster shows the development process of a tool that simulates the mechanical behavior of a binary mixture during compaction and unloading.
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Predicting and Optimizing Solar Cell Performance with Material/Surface Characteristics
08 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Yiheng Zhu, Allison Perna, Peter Bermel
Renewable energy sources have begun replacing fossil fuels at the utility scale. In particular, photovoltaics has grown rapidly in recent years. To further improve solar technology in terms of cost and efficiency and promote adoption, researchers often seek material and device level...
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The Exciton Spectra Simulator of Photosynthetic Protein-pigment Complex
08 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Qifeng Chen, Yongbin Kim, Lyudmila V. Slipchenko
The solar energy is one of the most successful alternative energy sources because of its unlimited availability and environmental friendliness. However, the energy transfer rate in artificial solar devices is significantly lower than the energy transfer rate in plants and...
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Deep Machine Learning for Machine Performance and Damage Prediction
08 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Elijah Reber, Nickolas D Winovich, Guang Lin
Deep learning has provided opportunities for advancement in many fields. One such opportunity is being able to accurately predict real world events. Ensuring proper motor function and being able to predict energy output is a valuable asset for owners of wind turbines. In this paper, we look at...
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Computational Catalysis with Density Functional Theory
08 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Kevin Greenman, Peilin Liao
Heterogeneous catalysis is used in a significant portion of production processes in the industrialized world, which makes maximizing the efficiency of catalysts a high priority. However, the immense number of candidates for new catalysts precludes the possibility of testing all of them by...
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Grain Boundary Motion Analysis
08 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Jeremy Seiji Marquardt, Xiaorong Cai, Marisol Koslowski
Grain growth is a mechanism to relax residual stresses in thin films. These grains grow out of the thin film surface and are known as whiskers. These whiskers can cause short circuits, so developing scalable and cost effective solutions would increase the reliability and...
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GUI for the Surface Evolver - Polycrystalline Grain Growth
08 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Kevin K Ngo, Lucas Darby Robinson
This poster summarizes how the the online simulation tool, GUI for the Surface Evolver, was created as well as how it will impact research in polycrystalline grain growth. Polycrystalline grains have surface energies and tensions associated with them that cause grain boundaries to move...
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Débora Jimena Mendoza Silva
Chemistry Undergradute Student
https://nanohub.org/members/201649
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Understanding Powder Compaction Using Single Particle Measurement
23 Oct 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Wentao Chen, Ankit Agarwal, Marcial Gonzalez
Powder compaction is the process of transforming granular media into a solid body with a high relative density (low porosity) and a unique anisotropic microstructure. It is critical to understand the physical mechanisms of the compaction process in order to identify powder properties and optimal...
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Quantum Dot Lab - A Novel Visualization Tool using Jupyter
09 Oct 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Khaled Aboumerhi
As semiconductor devices scale down into the nano regime, deep understanding of quantum mechanical properties of nano-structures become increasingly essential. Quantum dots are famous examples of such nano-structures. Quantum dots have attracted a lot of attention over the last two decades due to...
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Modelling of Phase Transforming Cellular Material (PXCM)
28 Aug 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Chidubem Nuela Enebechi, Yunlan Zhang, David Restrepo Arango, Pablo Daniel Zavattieri, Nilesh Mankame
Phase transforming cellular materials (PXCMs) are a new class of materials that can go through large deformation and return to their original configuration. Currently, there are reliable cellular materials that can resist large deformation, for example, honey comb; however, when these materials...