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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:

Hess, Andrew R

Title:

Phosphazenes for Energy Production and Storage: Applied and Exploratory Synthesis

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

phosphazene
polyphosphazene
polymer electrolytes
DSSC
dye sensitized solar cell
lithium battery
lithium-ion battery

File:

Download AndrewHess_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Harry R Allcock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John V Badding, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Special Member

Author:

Smedley, Sarah Black

Title:

Water hydrogen bonding in proton exchange and neutral polymer membranes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

hydrogen bonding
proton exchange membrane
FTIR
vibrational spectroscopy
superacid
water treatment membrane

File:

Download SSmedley_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Anthony Hickner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Special Member

Author:

Zimudzi, Tawanda James

Title:

The Characterization of Thin Polymer Films Using Vibrational Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Vibrational Spectroscopy
Polymer thin fims
Reverse Osmosis membranes
Fuel cells
Nafion
Aromatic Polyamides
Physical Chemistry

File:

Download TJZ-Thesis_ver2.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Anthony Hickner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
Seong Han Kim, Outside Member

Author:

Rumble, Christopher Allen

Title:

Solute Dynamics in Liquid Systems: Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

electron transfer
proton transfer
ionic liquids
ultrafast spectroscopy
rotational dynamics
solvation dynamics
T1 relaxation
G-quadruplexes
charge transfer
molecular rotors
fluorescence
molecular dynamics simulation

File:

Download crumble_thesis_052217.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark Maroncelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
William George Noid, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Outside Member