Search Results - "Campbell, Matthew F"
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Progress Toward High Power Output in Thermionic Energy Converters
Published in Advanced science (01-05-2021)“…Thermionic energy converters are solid‐state heat engines that have the potential to produce electricity with efficiencies of over 30% and area‐specific power…”
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Controlled levitation of nanostructured thin films for sun-powered near-space flight
Published in Science advances (12-02-2021)“…We report light-driven levitation of macroscopic polymer films with nanostructured surface as candidates for long-duration near-space flight. We levitated…”
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Relativistic Light Sails Need to Billow
Published in Nano letters (12-01-2022)“…We argue that light sails with nanometer-scale thicknesses that are rapidly accelerated to relativistic velocities by lasers must be significantly curved in…”
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Multiscale Photonic Emissivity Engineering for Relativistic Lightsail Thermal Regulation
Published in Nano letters (26-01-2022)“…The Breakthrough Starshot Initiative aims to send a gram-scale probe to our nearest extrasolar neighbors using a laser-accelerated lightsail traveling at…”
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Shock tube study of normal heptane first-stage ignition near 3.5 atm
Published in Combustion and flame (01-12-2018)“…Shock tube ignition delay times and species time history measurements for Primary Reference Fuels (PRFs) such as normal heptane provide targets for the…”
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Formation and emission of large furans and oxygenated hydrocarbons from flames
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-07-2016)“…Many oxygenated hydrocarbon species formed during combustion, such as furans, are highly toxic and detrimental to human health and the environment. These…”
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Radical–radical reactions, pyrene nucleation, and incipient soot formation in combustion
Published in Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (2017)“…We present a combined experimental and probabilistic simulation study of soot-precursor. The experiments were conducted using aerosol mass spectrometry coupled…”
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Hollow Atomic Force Microscopy Cantilevers with Nanoscale Wall Thicknesses
Published in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (01-12-2021)“…In atomic force microscopy, the cantilever probe is a critical component whose properties determine the resolution and speed at which images with nanoscale…”
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Distinguishing Gas-Phase and Nanoparticle Contributions to Small-Angle X‑ray Scattering in Reacting Aerosol Flows
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory (19-05-2022)“…We have developed a strategy for distinguishing between small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) from gas-phase species and newly formed nanoparticles in mixed gas-…”
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Ignition delay times of very-low-vapor-pressure biodiesel surrogates behind reflected shock waves
Published in Fuel (Guildford) (15-06-2014)“…•The aerosol shock tube allows measurements of very-low-vapor-pressure fuels.•Aerosol shock tube data compare favorably with that of a heated shock…”
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Constrained reaction volume shock tube study of n-heptane oxidation: Ignition delay times and time-histories of multiple species and temperature
Published in Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (01-01-2015)“…Ignition delay times of normal heptane have been measured at temperatures ranging from 651 to 823K and at pressures between 6.1 and 7.4atm at an equivalence…”
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Scaling relation for high-temperature biodiesel surrogate ignition delay times
Published in Fuel (Guildford) (15-01-2016)“…•A scaling relationship for high-temperature biodiesel ignition times is presented.•Negative pressure, carbon chain length, and oxygen mole fraction scaling…”
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Nanostructured Spacers for Thermionic and Thermophotovoltaic Energy Converters
Published in Journal of microelectromechanical systems (01-10-2020)“…Microgap thermionic energy converters and nanogap thermophotovoltaic devices can efficiently generate electricity from heat without using moving parts…”
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Demonstration of Atmospheric-Pressure Radiometer With Nanocardboard Vanes
Published in Journal of microelectromechanical systems (01-10-2020)“…Crookes radiometers have been the subject of numerous theoretical, numerical, and experimental studies because of the complicated forces they exhibit as well…”
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Microfabricated Foldable Wings for Centimeter-Scale Microflyers
Published in Journal of microelectromechanical systems (01-10-2020)“…Many micro-aerial vehicles can benefit from having compact and robust pre-deployment configurations that can later transform into larger and more capable…”
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Critical Assessment of Photoionization Efficiency Measurements for Characterization of Soot-Precursor Species
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory (15-06-2017)“…We present a critical evaluation of photoionization efficiency (PIE) measurements coupled with aerosol mass spectrometry for the identification of condensed…”
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Photoionization Efficiencies of Five Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory (15-06-2017)“…We have measured photoionization-efficiency curves for pyrene, fluoranthene, chrysene, perylene, and coronene in the photon energy range of 7.5–10.2 eV and…”
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Soot-particle core-shell and fractal structures from small-angle X-ray scattering measurements in a flame
Published in Carbon (New York) (30-08-2022)“…We have characterized soot particles measured in situ in a laminar co-flow ethylene-air diffusion flame using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The analysis…”
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Distinguishing Gas-Phase and Nanoparticle Contributions to Small-Angle X-ray Scattering in Reacting Aerosol Flows
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory (06-05-2022)“…We have developed a strategy for distinguishing between small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) from gas-phase species and newly formed nanoparticles in mixed gas-…”
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