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Direct imaging of self-assembly behaviors of colloids: from the microscale plates to the nanoscale cubes
No full textMicroscale and nanoscale colloidal particle self-assembly is widely studied to establish the design rules towards ordered structures and used as atomic model systems for phase transition studies such as crystallization and growth. The well-established synthetic library enables the synthesis of colloidal particles with controllable size, morphology, and surface chemistry, which dictates their interactions for self-assembly. This dissertation focuses on studying a promising yet underexplored colloidal building blocks: anisometric colloids and developing direct imaging tool of liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to visualize and quantify the less-explored nanoparticle self-assembly dynamics in solution. I begin by engineering highly directional interactions of micron-sized silver plates through colloidal synthesis and surface functionalization, to induce their co-assembly with patchy spheres into complex, 2D architectures. Utilizing a combination of direct optical microscopy imaging, theoretical modeling, and automated single particle tracking, I further demonstrate an unconventional crystallization pathway into 3D hierarchical lattices from polydisperse colloids. Then I focus on a foundationally new imaging tool known as liquid-phase TEM for in-situ imaging of otherwise inaccessible solution-phase nanoparticle self-assembly dynamics at nanometer resolution. I substantially advanced this technique and revealed, for the first time, the nanoparticle assembly dynamics such as a layer-by-layer growth process into flat superlattices. This dissertation concludes by highlighting new opportunities from this technical improvement in navigating colloidal interactions to engineer the conformation, phase behaviors and collective dynamics of colloids on the nanometer length scale. The generalized interaction engineering strategy from my research can serve as a general guideline for the design and fabrication of functional colloidal materials from the bottom-up.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2022-05-01The student, Binbin Luo, accepted the attached license on 2020-04-27 at 11:12.The student, Binbin Luo, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-04-27 at 11:34.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-05-04 at 09:49.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15080 on 2020-08-25 at 17:41:00Made available in DSpace on 2020-08-27T00:50:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 5
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sj-tif-1-tct-10.1177_15330338221095667 - Supplemental material for What is the Role of the Preoperative Blood-Based Inflammation Biomarkers in the Prognosis of Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma With Radical Nephroureterectomy? A Single-Centre Retrospective Study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-tif-1-tct-10.1177_15330338221095667 for What is the Role of the Preoperative
Blood-Based Inflammation Biomarkers
in the Prognosis of Upper Tract
Urothelial Carcinoma With
Radical Nephroureterectomy? A
Single-Centre Retrospective Study by Zhenkai Luo, Binbin Jiao, Tao Huang, Hang Zhao and Guan Zhang in Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment</p
sj-docx-2-tct-10.1177_15330338221095667 - Supplemental material for What is the Role of the Preoperative Blood-Based Inflammation Biomarkers in the Prognosis of Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma With Radical Nephroureterectomy? A Single-Centre Retrospective Study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-tct-10.1177_15330338221095667 for What is the Role of the Preoperative
Blood-Based Inflammation Biomarkers
in the Prognosis of Upper Tract
Urothelial Carcinoma With
Radical Nephroureterectomy? A
Single-Centre Retrospective Study by Zhenkai Luo, Binbin Jiao, Tao Huang, Hang Zhao and Guan Zhang in Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment</p
Bai pin pu wang luo zhong de jing ji xue
No full textLuo, Yuan.Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 273-283).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on 01, November, 2016).Luo, Yuan
Esempio di rappresentazione del sé in Lu Ling 路翎, Luo Dadou de yisheng 罗大斗的一生 (La vita di Luo Dadou)
No full textIn the story Luo Dadou’s life (Luo Dadou de yisheng 罗大斗的一生), Lu Ling 路翎 (1923-1994) gives shape to the deepness of human psyche and stresses the suffering of the Self of his age by giving a brilliant emphasis to human individuality. The author succeeds in doing so by creating an amazing psychological characterization of the main character, both by means of words and by means of grammatical structures. By applying Denton’s categories for the study of the Self in modern Chinese literature, I analysed Lu Ling’s short story from the Freudian and Kleinian psychodynamic perspective, so to demonstrate how Lu Ling enters his characters’ minds and wonderfully recreates the psychological dynamics inside and between them
Design of split-inductors applied in positive output super lift luo-converters
No full textAs the demand of the modern electronic devices and appliances are getting higher, the role of the converters with higher output and efficiency become wider for different industries. It has been the role of engineers to explore the converter topology to provide higher output voltage in simple design with less cost. There are quite a number of different ways of lifting output voltage in converter topology.The method that the author will be introducing is called “Split- Inductors Method”, where the
output voltage is totally dependent on the number of inductors used in the converter design. The
report will include a detail discussion about design and results of” split-inductors topology”,
applied to “Positive Output Super Lift Luo Converter” using software simulations and hardware
experiments.Bachelor of Engineerin
SUPPLEMENTAL_MATERIAL – Supplemental material for Different risk factors in identical features of intracranial atherosclerosis plaques in the posterior and anterior circulation in high-resolution MRI
No full textSupplemental material, SUPPLEMENTAL_MATERIAL for Different risk factors in identical features of intracranial atherosclerosis plaques in the posterior and anterior circulation in high-resolution MRI by Ziqi Xu, Mingyao Li, Jinhao Lyu, Zhikai Hou, Jianfeng He, Dapeng Mo, Feng Gao, Xin Liu, Binbin Sui, Mi Shen, Yuesong Pan, Yongjun Wang, Xin Lou, Zhongrong Miao, Benyan Luo and Ning Ma in Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders</p
Zhong guo fan long duan he bing shen cha de bi jiao yan jiu
No full textLuo, Yi.Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 336-349).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on 15, November, 2016).Luo, Yi
A Study on Luo Zhi Cheng\ue2s Historical narrative poems
No full textLuo Zhi Cheng is an important poet in the field of Taiwanese modern poetry, who is known for distinctive linguistic style and intense creative consciousness that are respected. Based on his powerful imagination and flourishing creativity as two primary advantages, through the mediation of poetry, prose, remarks, and commentaries, he maximally amplifies the implication of literature, and thereby composes himself and enriches the character. Distinguished from the majority of researchers focusing on Luo\ue2s lyric works, this study particularly found a writing context of \ue2avoidance of lyric sensibility\ue2 in Luo\ue2s poems, that is, his series of works historical themes in the form of long poems utilizing narrative skills to exhibit the remarkable consistency between the internality and the externality of the author.
\ue3\ue3This study conducted a comparative investigation of Luo\ue2s poetry work (The Book of Zhuzi) and prose works (Austral Court\ue2s Notandum and The Initiation of Civilization) to build a relatively more multi-faceted \ue2author\ue2s image of Luo Zhi Cheng\ue2 according to the writing of works of historical themes. Using the methodology of narratology, I departed from the internality of the text (the collection of poems) to identify how Luo forms the ideal spectrum of character by shaping historical persons; and meanwhile, I equally departed from the collections of prose to grasp the external information of the texts, and thereby clarified that Luo may treat \ue2writing, individual, and society\ue2 as a process of self-fulfillment. It is the two corresponding identities \ue2poet\ue2 and \ue2the intellectual\ue2 that are the mechanism of his constructing self-justification. Such investigation of the internality and the externality of text confirmed the complex relationships of the sustained \ue2opposition,\ue2 \ue2coexistence,\ue2 and \ue2conflict\ue2 between Luo and his works of historical themes
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