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Author:: Ghosh, Arnav
Title:: RELAXATION DYNAMICS OF BRANCHED POLYMERS
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: dynamics
relaxation
rouse
star
branched
polymers
entangled
File:: Download ArnavGhosh-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Ralph H Colby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qing Wang, Committee Member
Ronald Hedden, Committee Member
Janna Kay Maranas, Committee Member

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Author:: Indrakanti, Ananth
Title:: Interplay Between Kinetics and Apparent Thermodynamics in Thin Polymer Blend Films
Graduate Program:: Chemical Engineering
Keywords:: single chain mean field theory
neutron scattering
polymer blends
phase behavior
File:: Download ananth_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Prof Sanat K Kumar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margaret K Duda, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
Janna Kay Maranas, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member

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Author:: Erwin, Brian M
Title:: Temperature Dependence of the Length Scale for Cooperative Motion in Glass-Forming Liquids
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: glass
dynamic scaling
indane
critical temperature
File:: Download BrianMErwin-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Ralph H Colby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member
Evangelos Manias, Committee Member
Janna Kay Maranas, Committee Member

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Author:: Gu, Bin
Title:: Synthesis and Fabrication of Polymeric Composites, Nanofilaments and Nanofibers
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: polymer
composite
fiber
nanowire
controlled radical polymerization
PTFE
File:: Download etd.pdf
Committee Members:: Ayusman Sen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member

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Author:: Chen, Chunxia
Title:: SEGMENTAL DYNAMICS IN POLY(ETHYLENE OXIDE)/POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) BLENDS
Graduate Program:: Chemical Engineering
Keywords:: segmental dynamics
PEO/PMMA blend
File:: Download PhDThesis_Chen.pdf
Committee Members:: Janna Kay Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
Seong H Kim, Committee Member
Patrick Cirino, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member

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Author:: Lentz, Daniel Michael
Title:: Nanostructured Elastomers: From Smectic Liquid Crystals to Noble Metal Nanocomposites
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: main chain liquid crystalline elastomers
noble metal nanoparticles
nanocomposites
File:: Download D._Lentz_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Evangelos Manias, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ronald C Hedden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Evangelos Manias, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

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Author:: Larsen, Gregory Steven
Title:: SIMULATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS ON GAS ADSORPTION IN NOVEL MICROPOROUS POLYMERS
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity
Simulations
Adsorption
File:: Download Larsen_Dissertation_Final1.pdf
Committee Members:: Coray M Colina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Coray M Colina, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
Janna Kay Maranas, Committee Member

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Author:: Patil, Harshad Pandharinath
Title:: INFLUENCE OF ARCHITECTURAL IMPERFECTIONS ON THE DYNAMIC MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF MAIN-CHAIN SMECTIC ELASTOMERS
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Liquid Crystals
Liquid Crystalline Polymers
Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Smectic CA
Damping
File:: Download Dissertation-Harshad-P.-Patil.pdf
Committee Members:: Ronald C Hedden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member

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Author:: Noh, Hyeran
Title:: Volumetric Interpretation of Protein Adsorption
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Biomaterial
Surface Chemistry
Competitive Adsorption
Protein
Biocompatibility
File:: Download Hyeran_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Erwin A Vogler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Committee Member

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Author:: Sun, Huan
Title:: AN ENERGETIC VARIATIONAL APPROACH TO MODELING COMPLEX FLUIDS AND ITS NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS
Graduate Program:: Mathematics
Keywords:: PDE
variational techniques
complex fluids
numerical simulations
File:: Download thesis_main.pdf
Committee Members:: Chun Liu And James Brannick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chun Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Joseph Brannick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiantao Li, Committee Member
Yuxi Zheng, Committee Member
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member

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