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Author:

Sturgis, Nicholas Phillip

Title:

Developing Microfluidic Systems for In Situ Characterization of High Temperature Colloidal Nanoparticle Synthesis

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

microfluidic
nanoparticle synthesis
in-situ
cation exchange

File:

Download NickSturgisDissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
Themis Matsoukas, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Special Member

Author:

Al-azizi, Ala' Ahmad

Title:

SURFACE CHEMISTRY AND SUPERLUBRICITY OF DIAMOND-LIKE CARBON

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Superlubricity
Surface chemistry
tribology
diamond-like carbon

File:

Download 2-Ala_Alazizi-PhD_thesis-final-2.pdf

Committee Members:

Seong Han Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member
Themis Matsoukas, Committee Member
Randy Vander Wal, Special Member

Author:

Adhikari, Jwala Mani

Title:

Role of Interfacial, Static and Dynamic Disorder on High Performance Organic Field-effect Transistors

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

organic semiconductors
organic single crystals
thin film disorder
polymer gate dielectric
rubrene
C8BTBT

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Adhikari_J.M.pdf

Committee Members:

Enrique Daniel Gomez, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Qing Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Hossein Yazdi, Shahrzad

Title:

Confined locomotion in viscous and viscoelastic fluids at low Reynolds number

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Locomotion
Self-propelled microorganism
Viscoelastic fluid
Low-Reynolds-number regime
Solid-fluid boundary

File:

Download ShahrzadYazdi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Borhan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Borhan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Committee Member
Kyle Jeffrey Magnuson Bishop, Committee Member

Author:

Cassady, Harrison Jasper

Title:

The effect of specific ions on the permselectivity of ion exchange membranes

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Ion-exchange membrane
permselectivity
membrane potential
counter-ion
co-ion
reverse electrodialysis
AEM
CEM
Permselectivity
Membrane potential
Counter-ion
Co-ion
Reverse electrodialysis

File:

Download Cassady_-_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mike Hickner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smith, Brandon Howard

Title:

ENHANCED CHARGE TRANSPORT IN POLYMER THIN-FILM TRANSISTORS THROUGH STRUCTURAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL OPTIMIZATION

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Organic Thin-Film Transistor
Organic Semiconductor
Poly(3-hexylthiophene)
P3HT
Grazing-Incidence Wide Angle X-Ray Scattering
GIXRD
GIWAXS
Ferrocene
Neutron Detector
X-ray Detector
Zone Refining
P3HT-b-PFTBT
PBnDT-FTAZ
Block Copolymer
Polymorphism
Charge Mobility
Charge Transport

File:

Download Brandon_Smith_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Enrique D. Gomez, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Enrique D. Gomez, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael J. Janik, Committee Member
Seong H. Kim, Committee Member
N. Christopher Giebink, Outside Member

Author:

Shen, Yuexiao

Title:

Artificial water channel based membrane for desalination

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial water channels
Biomimetic membranes
Desalination

File:

Download Dissertation_Yuexiao_Shen.pdf

Committee Members:

Manish Kumar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Manish Kumar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Christopher Morgan

Title:

PROBING THE MESOSCALE STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE IN PLANT BIOMASS USING SUM-FREQUENCY-GENERATION (SFG) VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

cellulose
sum-frequency-generation
nonlinear spectroscopy
plant cell walls

File:

Download Lee_2016_dissertation_submitted2.pdf

Committee Members:

Seong Han Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Phillip E Savage, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
Wayne Roger Curtis, Committee Member
Daniel J Cosgrove, Outside Member

Author:

Le, Thinh Phuc

Title:

Pathway Towards High Performance Organic Photovoltaics: Contact Doping and Morphology Control

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

organic photovoltaics
organic semiconductors
polarized resonant soft X-ray scattering
PSOXS
Morphology control
contact doping
crystallization control
polymer crystallization

File:

Download Le_Thesis_Final_formatted.pdf

Committee Members:

Enrique Daniel Gomez, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Janna Kay Maranas, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Outside Member

Author:

Borhan, Shirin

Title:

Numerical Simulation of Transport and Uptake of Reactive Air Pollutants in Healthy and Diseased Human Lungs

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

respiratory tract
reactive inhalant
dosimetry

File:

Download Shirin_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Borhan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Ultman, Committee Member
Rebecca Bascom, Committee Member