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Author:

Cross, Nicholas

Title:

Characterization and Development of the All-Aqueous Copper Thermally Regenerative Ammonia Battery

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Electrochemical engineering
Waste heat
Flow battery
Energy efficiency

File:

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Committee Members:

Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Matthew Rau, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Derek Hall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bruce Logan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Janik, Major Field Member
Christopher Arges, Major Field Member

Author:

Bell, Kirsten

Title:

Photocatalytic Polymer Brush Functionalized Glass Beads for Enhanced Heterogeneous Photocatalysis

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

photocatalysis
photocatalysts
heterogeneous
polymerizations
controlled radical polymerizations

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Committee Members:

Robert Hickey, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bryan Vogt, Major Field Member
Robert Rioux, Major Field Member
Christian Pester, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Tran, Hoang

Title:

Electrocatalysis at the Electrode/Electrolyte Interface: a Multiscale Molecular Model

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Electrocatalysis
Molecular modeling
DFT
Molecular dynamics

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Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Major Field Member
Scott Milner, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Janik, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Adri van Duin, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Jahanmahin, Omid

Title:

STUDYING THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS OF NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLY AND ATTACHMENT: INSIGHTS FROM MONTE CARLO AND MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Directed self-assembly
semiconductor
insulator
Monte Carlo simulation
COMSOL simulation
surface element integration
Dielectrophoresis (DEP)
Oriented Attachment (OA)
Atomic-scale investigations
Rare event sampling
Umbrella sampling
MD simulation
In silico studies
Reactive force field (ReaxFF)
Gold nanowire (NW) self-assembly
Nanoparticle assembly
Surface element integration (SEI)
Semiconductor
Insulator
Dielectric particles

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Committee Members:

Kristen Fichthorn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christine Keating, Outside Unit & Field Member
Darrell Velegol, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Themis Matsoukas, Major Field Member

Author:

Lin, Yen Ting

Title:

Understanding glass-water interactions by spectroscopic investigation of surface structure

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Glass surface
AFM-IR
Water Adsorption
Spectroscopy
Material Interfaces

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Committee Members:

Bryan Vogt, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Themis Matsoukas, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Outside Unit & Field Member
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Christian W. Pester, Special Signatory

Author:

Cassady, Harrison Jasper

Title:

The Mechanisms of Ion Transport through Ion Exchange Membranes for Use in Energy Storage Devices

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Ion Exchange
Membranes
Bipolar Membranes
Electrochemistry
Batteries
Redox Flow Batteries
Electrolysis
Mass Transport
Ion Exchange
Membranes
Bipolar Membranes
Electrochemistry
Batteries
Redox Flow Batteries
Electrolysis
Mass Transport
Ion Exchange
Membranes
Bipolar Membranes
Electrochemistry
Batteries
Redox Flow Batteries
Electrolysis
Mass Transport

File:

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Committee Members:

Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Hee Jeung Oh, Major Field Member
Derek Hall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bruce Logan, Major Field Member
Michael Hickner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Sultana, Ruhi

Title:

Electrochemical Phosphate Recovery From Wastewater By Magnesium Ammonium Phosphate Hexahydrate (Struvite) Crystallization

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Phosphate recovery
Scaled up reactor
Electrode passivation
Chloride concentration
Saturation Index
Pulsating potential
Packed bed reactor
Magnesium bead

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephanie Velegol, Major Field Member
Bruce Logan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bruno Pollet, Special Member
Konstantinos Alexopoulos, Major Field Member
Michael Janik, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lauren Greenlee, Special Signatory

Author:

Agarwal, Prawal

Title:

Nanoengineering and Synthesis of Metal-Based Materials for Enhanced Energetic Performance

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

nanoenergetics
nonthermal plasma
PECVD
self-propagating high-temperature synthesis reactions
thermal oxidation
hydrogen plasma
solid-state reactions
surface chemistry
material synthesis
material characterization
thermite reactions
intermetallic reactions
metal nanoparticles
boron
magnesium
aluminum

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Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Robert Rioux, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ali Borhan, Major Field Member
Stephanie Velegol, Major Field Member
Richard A Yetter, Special Member
Raymond Schaak, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Masucci, Ashley

Title:

Platform to graft conjugated polymers for optoelectronic applications

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

conjugated polymer
polymer nanoparticles
fluorescent polymers
photocatalysts
photocatalysis
charge transfer

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Committee Members:

Robert Hickey, Outside Unit & Field Member
Enrique Gomez, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bryan Vogt, Major Field Member
Scott Milner, Major Field Member
Christian Pester, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kim, Junseok

Title:

The role of halides in the anisotropic growth of fcc nanocrystals

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

fcc nanocrystals
anisotropic growth
density functional theory (DFT)
multi-scale theory
halide
solution-phase

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Committee Members:

Kristen Fichthorn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lasse Jensen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Janik, Major Field Member
Adri van Duin, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies