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Author:: Abdullah, Aboubakr Moustafa
Title:: The USE OF MICROELECTRODES IN THE STUDY OF LOCALIZED CORROSION OF ALUMINUM 6111-LIKE ALLOYS
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Corrosion
Crevice
Intergranular
mechanism
microelectrode
aluminum
aluminum alloys
potential drop
IR
chloride
nitric acid
pH
File:: Download bakr.pdf
Committee Members:: Howard W Pickering, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Shaw, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Member
Elzbieta Sikora, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

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Author:: Soukiassian, Arsen
Title:: GROWTH OF NANOSCALE BaTiO3/SrTiO3 SUPERLATTICES BY MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXY
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Ferroelectric thin films
ferroelectric superlattices
epitaxial growth
oxide MBE
ferroelectric phase transitions
UV Raman spectroscopy
File:: Download Thesis_updated5.pdf
Committee Members:: Xiaoxing Xi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell G Schlom, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

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Author:: Petchsuk, Atitsa
Title:: FERROELECTRIC TERPOLYMERS, BASED ON SEMICRYSTALLINE VDF/TRFE/CHLORO-CONTAINING TERMONOMERS: SYNTHESIS, ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES, AND FUNCTIONALIZATION REACTIONS
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Chloro-containing termonomers
Fluoropolymer
Functionalization
Ferroelectrics
VDF
TrFE
synthesis and electrical properties
File:: Download Atitsa.pdf
Committee Members:: Tze Chiang Chung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian Roland Harrison, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member
Kenji Uchino, Committee Member

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Author:: Erwin, Brian M
Title:: Temperature Dependence of the Length Scale for Cooperative Motion in Glass-Forming Liquids
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: glass
dynamic scaling
indane
critical temperature
File:: Download BrianMErwin-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Ralph H Colby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member
Evangelos Manias, Committee Member
Janna Kay Maranas, Committee Member

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Author:: Neese, Bret P.
Title:: Investigations of Structure-Property Relationships to Enhance the Multifunctional Properties of PVDF-based Polymers
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: polymer
ferroelectric
piezoelectric
electrocaloric effect
PVDF
capacitor
File:: Download Neese_PhD_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qing Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

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Author:: Unal, Burcu
Title:: Swelling and Mechanical Behavior of Ionizable Hydrogels Containing Highly Branched Polyamine Macromonomers
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: end-linking
hydrogel
swelling
gel electrolyte
pH-dependence
dendrimer
rhizobia
File:: Download Burcu_Unal_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Erin Clare Hedden, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ronald C Hedden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member
Erwin A Vogler, Committee Member
Bruce Ernest Logan, Committee Member

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Author:: Larsen, Gregory Steven
Title:: SIMULATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS ON GAS ADSORPTION IN NOVEL MICROPOROUS POLYMERS
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity
Simulations
Adsorption
File:: Download Larsen_Dissertation_Final1.pdf
Committee Members:: Coray M Colina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Coray M Colina, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
Janna Kay Maranas, Committee Member

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Author:: Patil, Harshad Pandharinath
Title:: INFLUENCE OF ARCHITECTURAL IMPERFECTIONS ON THE DYNAMIC MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF MAIN-CHAIN SMECTIC ELASTOMERS
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Liquid Crystals
Liquid Crystalline Polymers
Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Smectic CA
Damping
File:: Download Dissertation-Harshad-P.-Patil.pdf
Committee Members:: Ronald C Hedden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member

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Author:: Wang, Hsiao-an Sammy
Title:: DESIGN OF SHALLOW AND THERMALLY STABLE CONTACTS ON ANTIMONIDE-BASED SEMICONDUCTORS
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: metal/semiconductor contact
ohmic contact
Schottky barrier height
gate metallization
shallow reaction
thermal stability
aging
wet processing
surface passivation
antimonide based compound semiconductors
InGaSb
InAs
AlGaAsSb
HBT
HEMT
I-V characteristics
cross-sectional TEM
File:: Download Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

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Author:: Creek, John Aubrey
Title:: Nanoscale Self-Assembly of Starch: Phase Relations, Formation, and Structure
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: starch
amylose
phase separation
crystallization
spherulites
self-assembly
File:: Download JACThesisMaster.pdf
Committee Members:: James Patrick Runt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory Ray Ziegler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Evangelos Manias, Committee Member
Nicole Robitaille Brown, Committee Member

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