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Author:

Liu, Xiao

Title:

Brush-shaped Hybrid Polyphosphazenes for Advanced Biomaterial Applications And Substituent Exchange Reactions Based on Cyclic, Oligomeric And Polymeric Phosphazenes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

polyphosphazene
exchange reaction
brush polymer
antibacterial
drug release

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Xiao_Liu_Chemistry__Allcock_group_.pdf

Committee Members:

Harry R Allcock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harry R Allcock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John V Badding, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

Author:

Sparks, Justin Ryan

Title:

High Pressure Chemical Deposition in Extreme Aspect Ratio Templates for Semiconductor Optical Fiber Applications

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Optical Fibers
Photonics
High Pressure
Templated Growth
ZnSe

File:

Download Sparks_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John V Badding, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harry R Allcock, Committee Member
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Benjamin David

Title:

The Self- and Directed Assembly of Nanowires

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanowires
Nanotubes
Gold
Silica
Self-Assembly
Sedimentation
van der Waals
Aspect Ratio
Density
Electrostatics
Particle

File:

Download Smith_Benjamin_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Mary Beth Williams, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member

Author:

Schmid, Kyle M

Title:

Methods to Accelerate the Rate of Head-to-tail Depolymerization of Poly(carbamates) in Low Polarity Environments

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

depolymerization
amplification
poly(carbamate)
azquinone methide
controlled release

File:

Download KMS_THESIS_CORRECTED_FINAL_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott T Phillips, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Trent Feldman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
RAYMOND LEE FUNK, Committee Member
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Wei

Title:

Understanding the propulsion and assembly of autonomous nano- and micromotors powered by chemical gradients and ultrasound

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanomotors
Numerical simulation
Energy efficiency
Ultrasound
Particle interactions
Self-assembly

File:

Download Wei_Wang_thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas E Mallouk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Jun Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Nangia, Shivangi

Title:

Monte Carlo simulations of enzyme catalyzed single and multistep reactions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Monte Carlo
enzyme catalyzed reactions
activation energy
temperature
diffusion
colocalization

File:

Download Shivangi_Nangia_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Bernhard Anderson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member

Author:

Fernandez, Laura Elizabeth

Title:

Proton-coupled Electron Transfer Reactions: Electrochemical Method Development and Applications

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer
PCET
Electrochemistry
Theoretical

File:

Download Thesis-FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Sharon Hammes Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member

Author:

Cheunkar, Sarawut

Title:

Molecular Self-Assembly For Biological Investigations and Nanoscale Lithography

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

self-assembled monolayers
g-protein coupled receptors
alkanethiols
lithography
and microcontact insertion printing

File:

Download Sarawut_Final_Dissertation_Submission_fixed.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne M Andrews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
David John Vandenbergh, Special Member

Author:

Kennedy, Paul Earl

Title:

Molecular Dynamics Investigations of Energetic Cluster Bombardment of Metal-organic Interfaces and Organic Solids

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

molecular dynamics simulations
MD
cluster bombardment
C60
secondary ion mass spectrometry
SIMS

File:

Download Thesis_Paul_Kennedy_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Member
Barbara Jane Garrison, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yu, Yinxi

Title:

Hydrogen production catalyzed by earth-abundant metal complexes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

hydrogen production
catalyst
cobalt
nickel
iron

File:

Download PS_Thesis_Yinxi.pdf

Committee Members:

Sharon Hammes Schiffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Grove, Tyler L

Title:

Mechanistic, Spectroscopic and Structural Characterization of Two Novel Reactions Catalyzed by Radical S-adenosylmethionine Dependent Enzymes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Radical
Radical SAM
Fe/S
SPASM
5'-dA
SAM
Methylation
Antibiotic Resistance
Cfr
RlmN
anSMEcpe
radical SAM dehydrogenas

File:

Download TG_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Squire J Booker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Squire J Booker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph M Bollinger Jr., Committee Member
Carsten Krebs, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Special Member

Author:

Kaintz, Anne Elizabeth

Title:

Translational and Rotational Diffusion in Ionic Liquids

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

diffusion
hydrodynamic
Inversion Recovery
ionic liquid
PFG-NMR
rotation
Stokes Einstein Debye
translation
viscosity

File:

Download Diffusion_in_Ionic_Liquids.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark Maroncelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan James Benesi, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Special Member

Author:

Nunez, Sean Andrew

Title:

New Advances in the Controlled-Release of Alcohols: (O,O)-Acetal Reagents for Activity-Based Detection and the Controlled-Release of Alcohols

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Controlled release
self-immolation
acetal
quinone methide
stimuli-responsive
detection
alcohols

File:

Download S-NunezThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott T Phillips, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Morozowich, Nicole Lynn

Title:

The Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Polyphosphazenes for Hard Tissue Engineering

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Polyphosphazne
Bioerodible
Biomimetic
Hard Tissue Engineering
Vitamin
Antioxidant
Hydroxyapatite
Hydrogel
ToF-SIMS

File:

Download Morozowich_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Harry R Allcock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member

Author:

Essinger-hileman, Elizabeth Ruth

Title:

Specific and Non-specific Interaction of M13 Bacteriophage Proteins with Inorganic Nanomaterials

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

inorganic nanomaterials
M13 bacteriophage
specific peptides
material specificity
nanoparticles
specific peptides

File:

Download Final_Thesis_EEH.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Silverstein, Daniel William

Title:

Applications of Time-dependent Quantum Mechanics to Resonantly-enhanced Linear and Nonlinear Optical Processes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory
Linear Optical Properties
Nonlinear Optical Properties
Raman Scattering

File:

Download DanielSilverstein-PSUThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lasse Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Victor Nistor, Special Member

Author:

Buck, Matthew Robert

Title:

Strategies for the Total Synthesis of Inorganic Nanostructures

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

materials
synthesis
nanoscience
hybrid
nanoparticles
colloids

File:

Download Buck_Dissertation_FINAL_5_30_13.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member

Author:

Witek, Jason Anthony

Title:

Nitrosoalkene Alkylation and Stereochemical Studies

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

nitrosoalkenes
michael additions
oximes
deoximation
enolonium ion
umpolung

File:

Download mastersthesisformat.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven M Weinreb, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Lee Funk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott T Phillips, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Henderson, Camden Neil

Title:

Studies on the Exfoliation, Reassembly and Applications of Layered Materials

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Layered Perovskites
Perchlorate Rememdiation
Tungsten Disulfide Exfoliation
Proton Conductivity

File:

Download CamdenHenderson-Dissertation_sequence.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas E Mallouk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, 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:

Download Thesis_RyanPavlick_Final.pdf

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