David Williams and Dr. William Pitt, Department of Chemical Engineering Abstract The purpose of this research project was to determine the optimal method to solvent bond polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pieces together. Understanding how to create a strong solvent bond in PVC is important to a related prosthetic leg project that has been performed at BYU. […]
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Using EBSD images to Determine 3D Crystal Structure
Caroline Sorensen and Dr. David Fullwood, Department of Mechanical Engineering The research I have completed over the past year has been very successful. The results will soon (i.e. in the next week or two) be submitted for publication, most likely to the journal “Metallurgical and Material Transactions A.” Preliminary findings from this research were also […]
The Effect of Lanthanum on Iron Based Water-Shift Catalysts
Trevor Slade and Dr. Morris Argyle, Department of Chemical Engineering Introduction The water-gas shift reaction is the reaction where carbon monoxide and water react to form carbon dioxide and hydrogen as shown in equation 1. The reaction is commonly used alongside steam reforming of methane to produce high purity hydrogen which is used to synthesize […]
Optical Characterization of Optofluidic Waveguides Using Scattered Light Imaging
Micah Jenkins and Dr. Aaron Hawkins, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering One exciting field of research within optics involves using on chip optical waveguides as biological sensors. Dr. Aaron Hawkins and his team of students have worked to develop a platform for bio-sensing using ARROW’s (anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguides) to confine light to a […]
Modular Containerized Provisional Habitations for Emergency Disaster Relief
Matthew Butler and Professor Brian Capt, School of Technology Perhaps the greatest challenge to this project was determining which materials to use in the construction of the modules. There are a multitude of materials that could have been used for the project, many of which might have worked well for the designated use. The shelters have […]
Quadratic Fields with 2-Skylow Class Group Isomorphic to C2kC2
Adele Lopez and Dr. Paul Jenkins, Department of Mathematics We prove that there are innitely many imaginary quadratic fields with 2-class group isomorphic to C2kC2 for any given positive integer k. This work is based on a related result for cyclic 2-class groups by Dominguez, Miller and Wong, and our proof proceeds similarly. However, we […]
The TAT Two Hybrid System
Joshua Browning and Dr. Allen Buskirk, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The TAT two hybrid system for discovering novel stalling peptides met with some immediate challenges that ultimately resulted in the abandonment of this project. The feasibility for using this method to discover new peptide sequences that would cause the stalling of translation within an elongating ribosome became […]
Development of Low-Cost Point-of-Care Channel Flow Constriction Immunoassays for the Developing World
Neil Anderson and Dr. Adam Woolley, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Biomarkers have a tremendous capacity for use in screening for various diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and bacterial infections. Existing immunoassay methods can detect a broad spectrum of biomarkers. However, they are costly to perform for small numbers of samples and require bulky, expensive instrumentation, making these methods unfit […]
Vitamin D3 as an Adjuvant to Produce Localized Immunity
Kaitlyn Vance and Dr. Eric Wilson, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology The aim of our research was to help elucidate the degree of specificity employed by antibody secreting cells (lymphocytes) through a study of the role of CCR10 in the differential homing of these cells to mucosal tissues. We used vitamin D3, known to […]
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Rodney Till and Dr. Brian Poole, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology My project this year was a great learning experience and helped me to better understand the complexity of lab work, as well as, the tools used in troubleshooting problems; including collaboration with lab researchers and professors. I learned about flow cytometry and how […]