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Author:

Qajar, Ali

Title:

SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYMER DERIVED POROUS CARBONS FOR GAS ADSORPTION, STORAGE AND SEPARATION

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Nanoporous carbon
Gas adsorption
Polymer derived carbon
Porosimetry

File:

Download Ali_Qajar_PhD_Thesis_012914.pdf

Committee Members:

Henry C Foley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Chunshan Song, Committee Member

Author:

Ravi, Venkataramanan

Title:

Heterogeneous Catalysis at the Single-molecule Level: A Quantitative Understanding of the Catalytic Activity of Individual Gold Nanoparticles and its Associated Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Heterogeneous Catalysis
Gold Nanoparticles
Single Molecule Level Measurements
Kinetic Analysis
Thermodynamics

File:

Download Final_PhD_Thesis_Venkat_Ravi.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member

Author:

Pantazes, Robert Jeffrey

Title:

The development of computational methods for designing antibodies and other proteins

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

protein
antibody
complementarity determining regions
IPRO
MAPs
de novo protein design

File:

Download RPantazesThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Arthur Mallay Lesk, Special Member
Themis Matsoukas, Committee Member
Howard M Salis, Committee Member

Author:

Hadidi, Mahsa

Title:

protein transport and fouling behavior of zwitteronic ultrafiltration membranes

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Zwitterion
Ultrafiltration
Fouling
Protein
Surface modification
Charge ladder

File:

Download Thesis_Mahsa_Hadidi.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Peer Lachegurabi, Maryam

Title:

The Design of a Shape Selective Platinum-carbon Catalyst with High Effectiveness

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

nanoporous carbon
heterogeneous catalysis
Emulsion polymerization
Platinum nanoparticles
liquid phase hydrogenation

File:

Download Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Professpr Henry C Foley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Professpr Henry C Foley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Chunshan Song, Committee Member

Author:

Islam, Mohammad Mazharul

Title:

Metabolic modeling of microbial communities

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

dynamic
microbial communities
modeling
d-OptCom
Uranium reduction
Auxotrophic mutants. metabolic modeling

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Mohammad_Mazharul_Islam.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chiang, Tso-yi

Title:

Modeling Colloidal Motor Transport in Bounded Systems

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

colloidal motor
electrophoresis
diffusiophoresis
particle-surface interactions

File:

Download Dissertation_Tso-Yi_Chiang.pdf

Committee Members:

Darrell Velegol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Themis Matsoukas, Committee Member
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member

Author:

Mayo, Michael Peter

Title:

Effects of Air Temperature and Oxygen Dilution on the Ignition Behavior of Liquid Fuels in an Optical Spray Chamber

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

constant volume combustion chamber
spray
ignition delay
CID
optical
PMT
oxygen dilution
diesel
biodiesel
heptane

File:

Download masters_thesis_Michael_P_Mayo.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andre Louis Boehman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wokpetah, Joseph Mawumenyo

Title:

Regulation of cancer stem cells by the tumor microenvironment

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Epithelial to mesenchymal transition
metastasis
transforming growth factor beta
Young's modulus
upregulation
downregulation

File:

Download 1-Thesis_Document_Joseph_Wokpetah_4_6_14.pdf

Committee Members:

Esther Winter Gomez, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ganapatibhotla, Lalitha

Title:

Tuning Filler Shape, Surface Chemistry and Ion Content in Nano-filled Polymer Electrolytes.

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

polymer electrolytes
lithium ion batteries
nanoparticles
nanowhiskers
polymer dynamics
QENS
reflectometry

File:

Download Lalitha_Ganapatibhotla_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Janna Kay Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janna Kay Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott Thomas Milner, Committee Member
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member