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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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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:

Xu, Jiansong

Title:

Reconsidering the czcD (NiCo) riboswitch as iron (II) riboswitch

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Irving-William series
metalloregulation
RNA
iron
metal selectivity
riboswitch
metal sensor
czcD riboswitch
NiCo riboswitch
metal overload

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Xin Zhang, Major Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Emily Weinert, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Veenis, Andrew

Title:

Towards a Better Understanding of the Influence of Noncovalent Interactions on RNA Catalysis and the Properties of RNA Moieties

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

RNA
Ribozyme
pKa
Cheminformatics
Bioinformatics
Molecular Dynamics

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Committee Members:

Lasse Jensen, Major Field Member
Song Tan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bui, Pho

Title:

Nonadditive Effects of Cosolvent Mixtures on Protein Stability in Aqueous Solutions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

nonadditivity
ion specific effects
ion-pairing
cosolvent
protein stability
complex solutions
vibrational spectroscopy

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Noid, Major Field Member
Tae-Hee Lee, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Judd, Kenneth Duane

Title:

Investigating Specific Cation Interactions with Anionic Surfactant Monolayers at the Air/Water Interface Using Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Thermodynamics

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

ion pairing
ion specific effects
monolayers
spectroscopy
nonlinear optics
vibrational spectroscopy
thermodynamics
surfactants

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mark Maroncelli, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dey, Madhuri

Title:

Reconstituting the 3D Breast Cancer Microenvironment for Chemo and Immunotherapy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Breast cancer
3D tumor models
Chemotherapy
Immunotherapy
MAIT-MR1
3D bioprinting
Perfusion
Tumor Angiogenesis
Cancer Invasion

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
James Connor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christine Keating, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Ibrahim Ozbolat, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Crowe, Charles

Title:

Aqueous Phase Separation within Water-in-Oil Emulsions as Cellular Models

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

liquid-liquid phase separation
phase separation
microfluidics
neutral polymer phase separation
emulsion
water-in-oil
coacervation
bioinspired
artificial cell
microscopy
droplet

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Committee Members:

Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
Peter Butler, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Tanygin, Vivian Sergei

Title:

Surface Chemistry of Transition Metal Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

nanoparticles
xps
epr
chalcogen
noble metal
nanomaterials
inorganic
electronic properties
esr
morphology
surface chemistry
nmr

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Lear, Chair & Major Field Represnt
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
Raymond Schaak, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
John Golbeck, Committee Member & Related Areas Repres
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Sheffield, Sarah

Title:

Using Single-Ion Conductors as Dielectrics in Organic Transistors

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Organic Semiconductor
Organic Single Crystals
Single-Ion Conductors
Polymer Dielectric
Organic Transistor
Polymer Thin Films
Vibrational Spectroscopy
Rubrene
Nafion
Ionomers

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Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Enrique Gomez, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Elizabeth Elacqua, Major Field Member
Michael Hickner, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Larry Cheng, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Liu, Chang

Title:

A Fluorescence-Based Investigation into the Mechanisms of Biomimetic-Membrane Component Translocation

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

chemotaxis
lipid flip-flop
membrane component translocation
microfluidics
lipid bilayer

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Hancock, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tae-Hee Lee, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Szukalo, Ryan

Title:

Predictive and Thermodynamically Transferable Coarse-Grained Models

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

coarse-graining
transferability
representability
local density

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Committee Members:

William Noid, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lasse Jensen, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Glaid, Andrew

Title:

Interesting Interface Interactions: The Synthesis of Metal Metalattices and the Binding of Ions to Lipid Membranes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Metalattice
Supercritical Fluid Deposition
Supported Lipid Bilayer
Ion Binding
Microfluidic Assay

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Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Knappenberger, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Featherston, Emily

Title:

Biochemical and structural factors governing metal selectivity in lanthanide-binding proteins

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Lanthanide
Rare earth element
Protein
Protein structure
Luminescence

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Committee Members:

Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Scott Lindner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amie Boal, Major Field Member

Author:

Sieg, Jacob

Title:

Thermodynamic Corrections to RNA Folding Models in Cells

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

RNA
metabolites
Magnesium
Thermodynamics
Nearest neighbor model

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Committee Members:

Andrew Patterson, Outside Field Member
Paul Babitzke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Edward O'Brien, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Castonguay, Alexander

Title:

Tunable and Responsive Systems: From Direct Laser Writing to Active Emulsions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

direct laser writing
active matter
laser synthesis
gas sensing
active emulsions
emulsions

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Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Outside Unit & Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tackman, Emma

Title:

Advances in Measurements of the Properties of Aerosol Particles: Acidity, Phase State, and Surface Interactions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

aerosol
microscopy
nanoparticle
acidity
transmission electron microscopy

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Committee Members:

Jose Fuentes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Miriam Freedman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
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:

Katzbaer, Rowan

Title:

Rational Discovery of Inorganic Material Properties

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Catalysis
Inorganic
Chemistry

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Committee Members:

Kenneth Knappenberger, Major Field Member
Zhiqiang Mao, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Graff, Erica

Title:

The Study of Protein and Polymer Phase Separation Kinetics and Thermodynamics Using Temperature Gradient Microfluidics

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

phase separation
monoclonal antibodies
temperature gradient microfluidics
apparent activation energies

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Major Field Member
Alexey Silakov, Major Field Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Unit & Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jeffries, William Ray

Title:

Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy as a Probe for Femtosecond Relaxation Dynamics of Metal Colloids

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Nonlinear Spectroscopy
Dynamics
Gold
Metals
Clusters
Plasmons
Polarization
Ultrafast

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Kenneth Knappenberger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Reynolds, Christopher

Title:

Copper (II) Interactions with Phosphatidylserine in Membranes: Biophysical Insights, Binding Mechanisms, and Physiological Consequences

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

biophysical chemistry
transition metal ions
membranes
copper (II)
oxidative damage
supported lipid bilayer
microfluidic systems
binding
phosphatidylserine
lipids
stepwise
constants
stoichiometry
densities
concentrations
Gouy-Chapman theory
ionic strength
surface charge density
chelation
complexes
buffer molecules
physiological implications
HeLa cells
plasma membrane
necrotic cell death
hydrogen peroxide
harmful effects
mechanistic explanation
future experiments.
hrmful effects
Phospholipid membranes
oxidation
copper
membrane oxidation
membrane binding model
bivalent binding
Debye-Hukel Theory
Electrostatic screening
electric double layer
Necrotic cell death
copper induced cell death
Alzheimer's disease
Neurodegeneration
microfluidic devices
high-throughput microfluidics

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Hancock, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alexey Silakov, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gerthoffer, Margaret

Title:

Design and Synthesis of Monomers toward Sequence-Controlled Polymers

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Nanothreads
Ar/ArF Co-Crystals
ROMP
phenylene(arylene)vinylenes
cyclophanes
polymers

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Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Elacqua, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Robert Hickey, Outside Field Member
Vincent Crespi, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Katzbaer, Julia

Title:

Development of Alkene Difunctionalization As A Versatile Method For Polymerization

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Polymerization
Difunctionalization
Ni-catalyzed

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Committee Members:

Ramesh Giri, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Elizabeth Elacqua, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Nacsa, Major Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Enrique Gomez, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Mcbride, Molly Jo

Title:

Structural Basis for Cofactor Assembly in the Novel Heme-Oxygenase-Like Diiron Oxygenase Superfamily

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

diiron oxygenase
x-ray crystallography
cofactor instability
biochemistry
metalloenzymes
heme-oxygenase-like diiron oxygenases
HDOs

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Committee Members:

Joseph Cotruvo, Major Field Member
Amie Boal, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
C Okafor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Carsten Krebs, Major Field Member
Joseph Bollinger, Co-Chair of Committee

Author:

Choi, Saehyun

Title:

COMPLEX COACERVATES AS EXPERIMENTAL MODEL SYSTEMS FOR PREBIOTIC COMPARTMENTS AND CELLULAR BIOCONDENSATES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Coacervates
liquid-liquid phase separation
origin of life
protocell
biocondensates
RNA chemistry
thermodynamics

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Christopher House, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Wentworth, Ciera

Title:

Investigation into the Partitioning and Behavior of Complex Fluids

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Active droplets
solubilization
chemotaxis
emulsions
micelle
hydrophobic hydration
Raman MCR

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Committee Members:

Robert Hickey, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christine Keating, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Koehler, Stephen

Title:

Rational Design and Synthesis of Sequence Defined Donor-Acceptor Poly(arylenevinylene)s as Singlet Fission Materials

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Conjugated Polymers
Singlet Fission
Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Density Functional Theory
Molecular Switches

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Committee Members:

Enrique Gomez, Outside Unit & Field Member
Elizabeth Elacqua, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Michael Hickner, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Guo, Zixuan

Title:

Understanding the morphology at donor-acceptor interfaces in organic semiconductors

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Organic semiconductors
Heterojunction
Interface morphology

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Lear, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Robert Hickey, Outside Unit & Field Member
Enrique Gomez, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hendrickson-Stives, Albanie

Title:

Towards Responsive Optical Microstructures: Directed Particle Assembly and 3D Microprinting

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

directed particle assembly
alternating current
metamaterials
3D microprinting
optical responses

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Mikael Rechtsman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christine Keating, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Marak, Katherine

Title:

Surface Property Impacts on Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation of Engineered Materials

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

aerosol chemistry
silica
silane
silver nanoparticles
thiosilver particles
ice nucleation
heterogeneous freezing
alumina
zeoilite
ZSM-5
air pollution
environmental chemistry

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Jerry Harrington, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christine Keating, Major Field Member
Miriam Freedman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member

Author:

Wickham, Laura

Title:

Nickel Catalyzed Dicarbofunctionalization of Alkenes with C(sp2) and C(sp3) Coupling Reagents

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

organic chemistry
method development
dicarbofunctionalization
organometallic

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Committee Members:

Philip Bevilacqua, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Ramesh Giri, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Elizabeth Elacqua, Major Field Member
Bert Chandler, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Corrigan, Patrick

Title:

Oxygen Tolerance in the [FeFe] Hydrogenase from Clostridium beijerinckii CbHydA1

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Bioinorganic chemistry
hydrogenase

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Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Carsten Krebs, Major Field Member
Squire Booker, Major Field Member
Alexey Silakov, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Golbeck, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Piane, Jacob

Title:

New Catalytic Concepts for Electron-Transfer Promoted Reactions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Catalysis
Electrochemistry
Electrocatalysis
Phenothiazine
Photoredox
Pyrylium
Dehydration
Single-Chain Polymer Nanoparticles
Electron Transfer
Acyl Substitution
Amidation
Oxidation
Dimerization
Esterification

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Elizabeth Elacqua, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Nacsa, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christian Pester, Outside Unit & Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Jonathan Kuo, Major Field Member

Author:

Winston, Dennis Sean

Title:

Investigating the Role of Conformational Dynamics in Allosteric Regulation

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Allostery
Conformational Dynamics
Poliovirus
Chorismate Mutase
Protein NMR

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David Boehr, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Major Field Member
Joyce Jose, Outside Unit & Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Huss, Steven

Title:

Chemical Reactivity Under Confinement: High-Pressure Synthesis of Carbon Nanothreads and Polymer-Based Catalysts

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Nanothreads
Polymers
Single-Chain Polymer Nanoparticles
Photoredox
Catalysis
Electron Transfer
Energy Transfer
High-Pressure

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Committee Members:

Ramesh Giri, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Elacqua, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Enrique Gomez, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Mc Cormick, Connor

Title:

Discovery and Design of Heterostructured and Solid Solutioned Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Nanoparticles
High Entropy
Sulfide
Phosphide
heterostructure
Cation exchange

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Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Major Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Myers, Ryan

Title:

The Rules of Ion Pairing in Aqueous Solution

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Ion Pairing
Vibrational Spectroscopy
Polymer Solubility

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Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenneth Knappenberger, Major Field Member
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Ralph Colby, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Schulze, Jessica

Title:

Investigation of organic materials in electrolyte solutions using reactive molecular dynamics with applications in hydrogels, cryo-EM, and planetary science

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

ReaxFF
MD
poly(vinyl alcohol)
Enceladus
cryo-EM
mechanical properties
water-electrolyte
computations
chemistry

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C Okafor, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Major & Minor Field Member
Susan Hafenstein, Outside Unit & Field Member
Adri van Duin, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Munro, Justin

Title:

Acetyl-CoA Production Inside and Outside of the Mitochondrion is Essential for Plasmodium falciparum During Asexual Red Blood Cell and Sexual Stage Development

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Plasmodium falciparum
Acetyl-CoA
Malaria
Metabolomics
HPLC/MS

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Andrew Patterson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Manuel Llinas, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Balaj, Rebecca

Title:

Understanding interfacial transport, reactions, and phase behavior in emulsion systems

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Emulsions
Phase separation
Capsules
Alginate
Solubilization
Droplets
Complex droplets
Reconfiguration
Surfactants
Surfactant partitioning
Complex fluids
Liquid interfaces
Droplet stability
Polyelectrolyte capsule
Reactions in droplets
Reactions at fluid interfaces
Reconfigurable droplets

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Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Major Field Member
Igor Aronson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Greenberger, Virginia

Title:

Microfluidic Monitoring of Copper Ion Binding to and Oxidation of Phospholipid Bilayers

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Microfluidics
Lipid Bilayers
Transition Metals
Oxidation
Copper
Chemistry
Fluorescence

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Boehr, Major Field Member
Tae-Hee Lee, Major Field Member
Joyce Jose, Outside Unit & Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mandalaparthy, Varun

Title:

The Influence of Cosolvent Interactions Upon Interfaces and Macromolecules

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

protein stability
polymers
proteins
osmolytes
thermodynamics
statistical mechanics
lattice models
protein folding
urea
tmao
simulations
theory
solute interactions
molecular dynamics
monte carlo

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Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
William Noid, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Edward O'Brien, Major Field Member
Xiantao Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Steves, Megan

Title:

Elucidating the Interplay of Optical Function and Structure in Nanomaterials with Nonlinear Optical Microscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

2D materials
nonlinear optics
ultrafast spectroscopy
2d metals
transition metal dichalcogenides
second harmonic generation
microscopy

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Mauricio Terrones, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lasse Jensen, Major Field Member
Kenneth Knappenberger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wenger, Eliott

Title:

Mechanistic Investigation of Oxygen-Activating Enzymes Using Rapid-Kinetics, Structural, and Spectroscopic Methodologies

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Enzyme
Mechanism
Oxygen
Kinetics
Crystallography
Metalloenzyme
Stopped-flow
EPR-spectroscopy
Mossbauer-spectroscopy
Mass Spectrometry

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Howard Salis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amie Boal, Major Field Member
Carsten Krebs, Co-Chair of Committee
Alexey Silakov, Major Field Member
Joseph Bollinger, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mc Govern, Ashlee

Title:

Control of Microscopic Movement Using Synthetic and Biological Active Matter

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Micromotor
Active Matter
Cell Dynamics
3D Printing
Nanofabrication
Self-Propelled particles

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Wu, Sikai

Title:

Design and Selective Synthesis of Carbon Nanothreads and Their Exfoliation

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

high-pressure chemistry
carbon nanothreads
precursor design
exfoliation

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Elacqua, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Nasim Alem, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor
Vincent Crespi, Chair of Committee

Author:

Bronson, Mark

Title:

Improving the Accuracy and Efficiency of Atomistic Electrodynamics Models for the Simulation of Large Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

chemistry
electrodynamics
DFT

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Mauricio Terrones, Major Field Member
Kristen Fichthorn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lasse Jensen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Edward O'Brien, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Haines, Christopher

Title:

Electrochemistry as a Synthetic Tool for Dehydration Reactions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Electrochemistry
Organic
Synthesis
Dehydration
Catalysis

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Committee Members:

Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
C Okafor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ramesh Giri, Major Field Member
Eric Nacsa, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Squire Booker, Major Field Member