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Author:

Lebold, Kathryn

Title:

A Dual Potential Approach for Modeling Structure and Energetics with Coarse-Grained Models

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

coarse-graining
dual-potential
transferability
representability
thermodynamics

File:

Download Lebold-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Will Noid, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Will Noid, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Outside Member

Author:

Kennehan, Eric Ronald

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF EXCITONIC PROPERTIES AND HOT-CARRIER COOLING IN LEAD SULFIDE QUANTUM DOTS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Spectroscopy
Transient Absorption
Quantum Dots
Lead Sulfide
Perylene Diimide
Phonon
electron-phonon
PbS
Flash photolysis
electro-optical
exciton

File:

Download Kennehan_Eric_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gray, Christopher

Title:

Oligomeric Ruthenium Light Absorbers and Nanostructured Lenses for Improved Harvesting of Solar Energy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

photoelectrochemical cells
water-splitting
solar energy
solar fuels
nanomaterials
oligomer
ruthenium polypyridal

File:

Download Gray__Chris_-_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Mallouk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zheng, Hongjun

Title:

ELECTRON DYNAMICS IN NANOSCALE METALS: FROM ATOMICALLY PRECISE CLUSTERS TO PLASMONIC NANOMATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

transient absorption spectroscopy
2DES
monolayer protected clusters
MPCs
gold nanorod
carrier dynamics
spatially resolved spectroscopy

File:

Download Dissertation_of_Hongjun_Zheng_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xin Zhang, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Messina, Kyle

Title:

Influence of biological small molecules on the twister ribozyme and development of methodologies to study and discover small ribozymes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

RNA
Twister Ribozyme
Kinetics
Small Molecule
Cryo-EM
Bioinformatics

File:

Download Messina_KJ_2019_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip C Bevilacqua, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carsten Krebs, Committee Member
David D Boehr, Committee Member
Craig Eugene Cameron, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhao, Xi

Title:

Enzyme Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Enzyme Diffusion
Enzyme Chemotaxis
Cascade Reaction
Enzyme Assembly
Aggregation
Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
Microfluidics
Active Matter
Nanoscale Motility

File:

Download thesis__Xi_Zhao_final_formatting.pdf

Committee Members:

Ayusman Sen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Igor S Aronson, Committee Member
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Livada, Jovan

Title:

Class Ic Ribonucleotide Reductases: Expansion of the Subclass and Insight into the Multi-Step Inter-Subunit Radical Translocation Mechanism

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

EPR
ribonucleotide reductase
DFT
Bioinorganic

File:

Download Livada_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph M Bollinger, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph M Bollinger, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Alexey Silakov, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rowland, Andrew

Title:

BIO-INSPIRED LIPOSOME-STABILIZED MULTI-PHASE ALL-AQUEOUS EMULSIONS FOR DIRECTED MINERAL SYNTHESIS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

artificial mineralizing vescile
amorphous calcium carbonate
bioinspired
liquid-liquid phase separation
coacervate
aqueous two phase separation
stabilized emulsion

File:

Download Rowland_Andrew_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhao, Tian

Title:

Single Nanostructure Nonliear Behavior of Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles Studied Using Ultrafast Correlated Light and Electron Microscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanostructure
Plasmonic
3D imaging
electronic dynamic
Ultrafast Microscopy
Super-resolution

File:

Download Dissertation_Tian_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member
Dr. Tae-Hee Lee, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rogers, Bradley Allen

Title:

Conformational and Colloidal Stability of Macromolecules in Aqueous Salt Solutions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Ion-Specific Effects
Interfacial Water Structure
Protein-Protein Interactions
Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation
Hydrophobicity
Thermoresponsive Polymers
Temperature Gradient Microfluidics

File:

Download Dissertation_Rogers_v11.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S Cremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Cremer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair