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Author:

Kurland, Adam Ross

Title:

Atomic-Scale Studies of Heterogeneous Catalysis, Substrate-Mediated Interactions and Interface Structures

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

substrate-mediated interactions
low temperature
STM
catalysis
spectroscopy

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul S Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Seong H Kim, Committee Member
Michael V Pishko, Committee Member

Author:

Hartwell, Bradley J.

Title:

MICROWAVE-INDUCED PYROLYSIS OF CORN STOVER: THE INFLUENCE OF POTASSIUM ON THE GAS FRACTION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

catalysis
catalyst
gas fraction
potassium
corn stalk
corn stover
pyrolysis
microwave
hydrogasification

File:

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Committee Members:

Sarma V Pisupati, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarma V Pisupati, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Holbrook, Billy-Paul Matthew

Title:

Nanoporous Carbon Mediated Catalysis and Hydrogen Adsorption

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

catalysis
carbon

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr Henry C Foley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Henry C Foley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member

Author:

Tyo, Eric Christopher

Title:

EXPLORING CATALYTIC ACTIVE SITES: INVESTIGATIONS OF ACTIVATED OXYGEN SPECIES AND SUPERATOMIC MIMICS IN THE GAS-PHASE

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

clusters
superatom
catalysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member

Author:

Nguyen, Jennifer M.

Title:

The Underfunctionalization of Alcohols by Heterogeneous Catalysts

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

alcohols
dehydrogenation
dehydration
biofuels
catalysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Ayusman Sen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kang, Myeongsoon

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF LATE TRANSITION METAL BASED CATALYTIC SYSTEMS FOR POLYMERIZATION OF POLAR VINYL MONOMERS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

late transition metal
catalysis
polymerization
polar vinyl monomer

File:

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Committee Members:

Ayusman Sen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Alan James Benesi, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member

Author:

Reilly, Nelly Moore

Title:

FUNDAMENTAL STUDY OF NOBLE METAL AND TRANSITION METAL OXIDE CLUSTERS IN THE PRESENCE OF CO: INSIGHT INTO MECHANISMS OF HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

CO oxidation
catalysis
gold oxide
gas-phase

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member

Author:

Ramanathan, Ramnarayanan

Title:

Synthesis and Characerization of Catalysts and Electrocatalysts Using Combinatorial Methods

Graduate Program:

Materials

Keywords:

split pool
electrocatalysis
combinatorial chemistry
catalysis
physical intuition
directed sorting

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chunshan Song, Committee Member
Digby D Macdonald, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member

Author:

Nanayakkara, Sanjni Ushika

Title:

Precise and Directed Assembly and Chemistry at the Atomic Scale

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

scanning tunneling microscopy
single electron tunneling
substrate-mediated interactions
Coulomb blockade
scanning tunneling spectroscopy
catalysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul S Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Henry C Foley, Committee Member
Roy F Willis, Committee Member

Author:

Surve, Shraddha Vishwas

Title:

ENHANCED PARTICLE DIFFUSION THROUGH ENZYME CATALYSIS AND SILVER TITANIA NANOMOTORS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

enzymes
catalysis
nanomotors

File:

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Committee Members:

Ayusman Sen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Paxton, Walter

Title:

Autonomous Motion of Catalytic Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

colloids
autonomous
micropumps
nanomotors
electrophoresis
catalysis
energy transduction

File:

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Committee Members:

Ayusman Sen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Alan James Benesi, Committee Member
Seong H Kim, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Weicheng

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF EFFECTIVE CHIRAL LIGANDS FOR CATALYTIC ASYMMETRIC HYDROGENATION

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

hydrogenation
asymmetric
catalysis
ligand
rhodium

File:

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Committee Members:

Prof Xumu Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xumu Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott Trent Feldman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven M Weinreb, Committee Member
Gong Chen, Committee Member
Qing Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Hong, Yiying

Title:

1. Self-Propelled Synthetic Particles— From Microscopic Randomness to Macroscopic Control. 2. Selective Heterogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenation by Recyclable Poly(allylamine) Gel-Supported Palladium(0) Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

micromotor
nanomotor
self-propulsion
phototaxis
diffusiophoresis
catalysis
titanium dioxide

File:

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Committee Members:

Ayusman Sen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Alan James Benesi, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member

Author:

Noda, Yu

Title:

Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass into Its Molecular Components by Sequential Combination of Organic Acid and Base

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

lignocellulose
biomass
biomass conversion
hydrolysis
acid
base
catalysis
combination
cellulose
hemicellulose
lignin

File:

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Committee Members:

Chunshan Song, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Prof Yongsheng Chen, Committee Member
Caroline Elaine Clifford, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member
Prof Yaw D Yeboah, Committee Member

Author:

Pavlick, Ryan Anthony

Title:

Organometallics For The Development Of Self-motile And Crack Repair Systems

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

organometallics
motors
nanomotors
catalysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Ayusman Sen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Barbara Jane Garrison, Special Member

Author:

Strulson, Christopher A

Title:

toward understanding RNA structure, folding, and function in cells

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

RNA
ribozyme
molecular crowding
macromolecular crowding
catalysis
compartmentalization
folding cooperativity

File:

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Committee Members:

Philip C. Bevilacqua, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Tae Hee Lee, Committee Member
Kenneth Charles Keiler, Committee Member

Author:

Swierk, John R

Title:

Electron Transfer Kinetics in Water-splitting Dye-sensitized Photoelectrochemical Cells

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Photoelectrochemical
Water oxidation
catalysis
water-splitting
TiO2

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas E Mallouk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Cheng-yu

Title:

hydrogen storage in select metal-organic frameworks via hydrogen spillover

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

adsorption
catalysis
hydrogen spillover
metal-organic framework

File:

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Committee Members:

Angela Lueking, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Vargas-barbosa, Nella Marie

Title:

Insights Into Electrochemical And Photoelectrochemical Water-splitting

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

electrochemistry
iridium oxide
solar fuels
catalysis
membrane
buffer
photo-electrochemistry
heterogeneous kintetics

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas E Mallouk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Barbara Jane Garrison, Special Member

Author:

Spanjers, Charles Steven

Title:

Nickel-zinc Intermetallic Catalysts for Acetylene Semi-hydrogenation and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Techniques for Catalyst Characterization

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

catalysis
catalyst
hydrogenation
x-ray absorption spectroscopy
intermetallic

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seong Han Kim, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member

Author:

Harmon, Christopher L

Title:

New Insights in the Gas-Phase Ion Chemistry of Group IVB Transition Metal Oxides: Cluster Models for Catalysis

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

clusters
ion chemistry
catalysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Ortiz, Isamar

Title:

Enzyme-Powered Pumps: From Fundamentals to Applications

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

enzyme micropumps
self-powered systems
catalysis
sensors
enzymes

File:

Download Ortiz-Rivera_Isamar_PhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ayusman Sen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E. Mallouk, Committee Member
Christine D. Keating, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Member

Author:

Bingaman, Jamie Lee

Title:

Identification of novel catalytic strategies of small ribozymes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

ribozyme
glmS
RNA
catalysis

File:

Download Bingaman_dissertation_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip C. Bevilacqua, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
David D Boehr, Committee Member
Song Tan, Outside Member

Author:

Jonayat, A S M

Title:

Predicting Stability of Modified Oxide Surfaces with Functional Atomic-Layers for Nano-engineered Catalysts through First Principles Calculations and Statistical Learning

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

catalysis
monolayer metal oxide
mixed metal oxides
DFT
machine learning
compact sensing
feature selection
LASSO

File:

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Committee Members:

Adri C.T. van Duin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adri C.T. van Duin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael J. Janik, Committee Member
Richard Yetter, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Outside Member

Author:

Dasgupta, Anish

Title:

SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND CATALYTIC TESTING OF PALLADIUM AND NICKEL BASED INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS FOR ACETYLENE SEMI-HYDROGENATION

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Pd-Zn
hydrogenation
acetylene
intermetallic compounds
gamma brass
catalysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Rioux, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Chunshan Song, Outside Member
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Thakkar, Jay

Title:

Local environment inside microporous materials and their consequences for catalysis and adsorption

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

catalysis
separation
ion exchange

File:

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Committee Members:

Xueyi Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xueyi Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Rioux, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Amanda M. Johnsen, Outside Member
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gentile, Kayla

Title:

Transport and Assembly in Active Systems

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

micropumps
fluid motion
catalysis
enzymes
protein aggregation

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Committee Members:

Thomas Mallouk, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Major Field Member
James Adair, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ayusman Sen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mc Gee, Shannon

Title:

A SINGLE-STEP LASER DIRECT WRITING METHOD FOR CATALYSIS APPLICATION

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

laser direct writing
water electrolysis
catalysis
oxygen evolution reaction
hydrogen evolution reaction
transition metal materials

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Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kanyak, Jenna

Title:

Topochemical Construction of Catalytic Active Sites with Atomic-Level Control

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (MS)

Keywords:

catalysis
synthesis
nanoparticles
CO2 reduction
cation exchange
topochemistry

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Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Zhiqiang Mao, Committee Member

Author:

Ogozaly, Susanna

Title:

Determining the Effect of Silver Concentration on the Formation of Shape Controlled Silver Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (MS)

Keywords:

nanoparticles
nanomaterials
silver
catalysis
nanoparticle synthesis
silver nanocubes
silver octahedron
nanocubes
octahedron
inorganic chemistry
materials chemistry

File:

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Committee Members:

Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Robert Rioux, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member