The standard of care for augmenting surgical bone repair or regeneration remains bone graft harvested from the patient despite a lack of sufficient quantity or quality of graft in many clinical cases. Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) therapeutics have been successfully developed and commercially marketed as substitutes for bone graft. Although the clinical success of BMP, […]
Thesis Committee: Karen Winey, Advisor; Daeyeon Lee, Robert Riggleman and Chinedum Osuji
Committee: Karen Winey, Advisor; Daeyeon Lee, Robert Riggleman and Chinedum Osuji
The rheology of polar ice evolves in response to weather and climate changes, by modifying its microstructure. While the experimental evidence for the dependence of rheological properties on the microstructure is well documented, there are only a few modeling efforts to capture the rheological behavior of polar ice, mostly by fitting continuum models to the […]
Committee: Daeyeon Lee and Robert A. Riggleman, Co-advisors; Ravi Radhakrishnan and Zahra Fakhraai
Small-scale robotic systems have emerged as promising tools to perform a wide-range of tasks in microbiology and medicine such as targeted delivery, cell manipulation, environmental monitoring, and microassembly. In order to perform these tasks, the robot must execute precise locomotion, take measurements from its environment, and use those measurements to make decisions. However, unlike their […]
