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Author:

Schaefer, Zachary Louis

Title:

Low-Temperature Chemical Synthesis of Intermetallic, Carbide, Borocarbide, and Carbonaceous Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Boron-doped Carbons
Carbides
Carbonaceous Materials
Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Nanoparticle Synthesis
High Surface Area Materials

File:

Download Schaefer_Dissertation_Rev.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Harry R Allcock, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Sridhar Komarneni, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Zihua

Title:

USING TIME-OF-FLIGHT SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY TO INVESTIGATE BEHAVIOR OF VAPOR-DEPOSITED METAL ON ALKANETHIOL SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

ToF-SIMS
self-assembled monolayer
vapor metal deposition
surface
metal behavior
molecular electronics

File:

Download Thesis-Zhu.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas Winograd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Carlo G Pantano, Committee Member

Author:

Brenes, Daniel A

Title:

Fundamental studies of the interaction between energetic C60 ion beams with inorganic and organic solid surfaces

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Time-of-flight secondary neutral mass spectrometry
sputtering
c60 ion beams
angular distribution
kinetic energy distribution

File:

Download Brenes_Thesis_FINAL_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas Winograd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carlo G Pantano, Committee Member
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Wei

Title:

Design and Synthesis of Chiral Ligands and Their Applications in Transition Metal-catalyzed Asymmetric Reactions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

synthesis
chiral ligand
asymmetric catalysis
transition metal

File:

Download Doctoral_Disseration.Wei_Li.Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Gong Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Tom Mallouk, Committee Member
Alexander Thomas Radosevich, Committee Member
Dr Qing Wang, Committee Member
Dr Xumu Zhang, Special Member

Author:

Nilson, Mark G

Title:

Total Syntheses of the Marine Natural Products (‒)-nakadomarin A and (±)-cortistatin J via Iminium Ion Cyclizations

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

total synthesis
nakadomarin
enecarbamate
Michael addition
N-acyliminium ion
metathesis
cortistatin
(4 + 3) cyclization

File:

Download Mark_G_Nilson_Chemistry_PhD_final_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

RAYMOND LEE FUNK, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Trent Feldman, Committee Member
Steven M Weinreb, Committee Member
John Patrick Vanden Heuvel, Committee Member

Author:

Pensack, Ryan

Title:

Measuring the Barrier to Charge Transfer State Dissociation in Organic Photovoltaic Materials with Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy
charge transfer state
organic photovoltaics

File:

Download Ryan_Pensack_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Todd Mueller, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member

Author:

Gunaratne, K. Don Dasitha

Title:

Photoelectron Imaging Spectroscopic Investigations of Transition Metal Silicides and Oxides

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Photoelectron spectroscopy
Electron Imaging
Photoelectron Angular Distribution
Transition metal
Silicon
Zinc Oxide

File:

Download Thesis_-_Don_Gunaratne.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member

Author:

Sacher, Joshua Ryan

Title:

Progress Toward a Total Synthesis of the Lycopodium Alkaloid Lycopladine H

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

organic
synthesis
lycopodium
lycopladine
quinone ketal
oxidative dearomatization
hydroaminomethylation
Henry reaction

File:

Download Sacher_-_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven M Weinreb, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Lee Funk, Committee Member
Gong Chen, Committee Member
Ryan John Elias, Committee Member

Author:

Beveridge, Jacob Stanley

Title:

Differential Magnetic Catch and Release: Separation, Purification, and Characterization of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Particles Assemblies

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Magnetic Nanoparticles
Differential Magnetic Catch and Release
Hybrid Nanocrystals
Nanoparticles

File:

Download thesis_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Williams, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Committee Member

Author:

Liang, Min

Title:

Solvation and electron transfer in ionic liquids

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Solvation dynamics
ionic liquids
bimolecular electron transfer

File:

Download Min_Liang_final_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark Maroncelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Committee Member