Browsing 2020 UMKC Dissertations - Freely Available Online by Thesis Department "Physics (UMKC)"
Now showing items 1-5 of 5
-
Ab Initio Study of Amorphous Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework (A-ZIF) and Pyrophosphate crystals
(2020)Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) are a rapidly emerging class of versatile porous material with many potential applications. Here, we report the construction of an amorphous ZIF (a-ZIF) model from a near-perfect ... -
Enabling Electronic Structure Calculations of High Z Element Containing Materials Using Dirac Relativistic DFT Methods
(2020)Novel properties may be induced in a host material by doping it with high Z elements to alter its underlying electronic states. Presently, no method exists that can accurately capture both large system sizes and the intricate ... -
Modeling HIV-1 Infection in the Brain: The Effect of the Blood-Brain Barrier
(2019)Despite the advancement of antiretroviral therapy (ART), the development of HIV associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) remains a major concern among HIV infected patients. As many ART drugs may fail to penetrate the ... -
Sequential Sampling Designs for Estimating Software Reliability
(2020)For any non-trivial system, it is impossible to reach the exact reliability of software due to the complexity, cost, and time required to complete the testing. Instead, a sample of test cases can be used to estimate the ... -
Uranium Oxides for Solid-State Direct-Conversion Neutron Detection
(2020)This study is focused on studying the potential of uranium oxides as solid-state direct-conversion neutron detectors. By modeling uranium oxides as neutron detectors, we found that thick detectors with suitable uranium ...