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Author:

Werner, Mark Andrew

Title:

Applications of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for Non-destructive Analysis of Plant Cell Walls and Engineered Soil Surrogates

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
plant cell walls
cellulose
Engineered soil surrogates
hemicellulose
pectin
pesticides
probe molecules
cross polarization
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File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
David D Boehr, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Aishwarya

Title:

Neutral atom quantum computing : Quantum gates and Maxwell's demon

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Quantum Computation
Atomic Physics
optical lattice
neutral atoms
Cesium
rydberg
quantum gates
randomized benchmarking
laser
maxwell's demon
entropy

File:

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Committee Members:

David Scott Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Scott Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Kenneth O'Hara, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Outside Member

Author:

Koeplinger, Daniel Brian

Title:

The Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Nanothreads

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanothread
Benzene
Compression
Polymerization
Diamond Anvil Cell
Exfoliation
AFM

File:

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Committee Members:

John V Badding, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member

Author:

Kindle, Cody

Title:

MATERIAL DEPOSITION VIA LASER INDUCED THERMAL VOXELS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Direct laser write
laser lithography
solvothermal synthesis

File:

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Committee Members:

Lauren Dell Zarzar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member

Author:

Van Burns, Emma Nicholson

Title:

Rate enhancement of chemical reactions using nanoscale heating generated by the photothermal effect of gold nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

photothermal heating
polyurethane
kinetics
gold nanoparticles
localized surface plasmon resonance
plasmonic heating
photothermal effect

File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Outside Member

Author:

Fagan, Jonathan

Title:

THE ROLE OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN INSPECTING SURFACES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

CESR
solvent dielectric
gold

File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
Alexey Silakov, Committee Member
Robert Rioux, Outside Member

Author:

Mitra, Utsab

Title:

UNDERSTANDING STRUCTURAL INFLUENCES IN GOLD MONOLAYERED-PROTECTED CLUSTERS USING MAGNETO-OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanoclusters
Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Two-dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy
Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy
Superatoms
Gold Clusters
Zeeman Effect

File:

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Committee Members:

Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Ackerman, Jonathan

Title:

Controlling selectivity of platinum deposition on partially exchanged Cu2-xS-CdS nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

nanoparticle
Chalcogenide
Cation exchange
partial cation exchange
Seeded growth

File:

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Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Swartzfager, John

Title:

Investigation of the Optoelectronic Properties of Formamidinium Lead Bromide Perovskites Using Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Time-resolved spectroscopy
Formamidinium lead bromide
Lead halide perovskites
Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
Optoelectronic
Photovoltaics
Fano resonance
Transient absorption
Polaron
Electron-phonon coupling
Excited state dynamics
Charge carriers

File:

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Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member

Author:

Widstrom, Andrea Lyn

Title:

Applicability of standard kinetic parameters for describing a photothermally driven reaction

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Diels-Alder
photothermal
gold nanoparticle
solvent
kinetic
viscosity
retro Diels-Alder
dipole
activation
thermodynamic
Arrhenius

File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
William D Burgos, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair