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Author:

Liu, Wenjuan

Title:

Designing Ion-containing polymers for facile ion transport

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Lithium ion batteries
ab initio calculations
ionic conductors
polymeric materials
dielectric spectroscopy
electrode polariz

File:

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Committee Members:

Ralph H Colby, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Lizhu

Title:

Synthesis and Characterization of Block Copolymer Anion Exchange Membranes and Superimide Proton Exchange Membranes

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

block copolymer anion exchange membranes

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Anthony Hickner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
Tze Chiang Chung, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member

Author:

Sahul, Raffi

Title:

Effect of Manganese Doping on PIN-PMN-PT Single Crystals for High Power Applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Relaxor-PT ferroelectrics
Doped Ternary Single Crystal
High Power Applications
Engineered Domain Configurations

File:

Download RaffiSahul_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Wenwu Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shujun Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member

Author:

Raghavan, Ashwin Sreekant

Title:

Laser-fired contact formation on metallized and passivated silicon wafers under short pulse durations

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

laser-fired contact
silicon wafer
photovoltaic device
heat transfer and fluid flow
laser-material interaction behavior

File:

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Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Todd Palmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
S Ashok, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Special Member

Author:

Shen, Haoting

Title:

Radial junction solar cells based on heterojunction with intrinsic thin lay (HIT) Structure

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

solar cell
amorphous silicon
PECVD
photovoltaic
nanowire
silicon

File:

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Committee Members:

Joan Marie Redwing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Jeffrey Brownson, Special Member

Author:

Williams, Krystaufeux Dormas

Title:

Spatially Resolved, In-situ Monitoring of Crack Growth via the Coupling Current in Aluminum Alloy 5083

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

coupling current
stress corrosion cracking
aluminum alloy 5083
scanning vibrating probe
electrochemistry

File:

Download K_Williams_Dissertation_Final_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Digby D Macdonald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prof Kwadwo Osseo Asare, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Prof Zi Kui Liu, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Committee Member

Author:

Shay, Dennis Patrick

Title:

Development and Characterization of High Temperature, High Energy Density Dielectric Materials to Establish Routes towards Power Electronics Capacitive Devices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Dielectric
Energy Density
Ceramic
Impedance Spectroscopy
Breakdown Strength
Ellipsometry
Power Electronics

File:

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Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Member
Nikolas J Podraza, Special Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member

Author:

Hart, Kyle E

Title:

Development of Structure-property Relationships for Intrinsically Microporous Polymers through Molecular Simulations

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Molecular Simulation
Polymers of intrinsic microporosity
carbon dioxide adsorption
gas separation
PIMs

File:

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Committee Members:

Coray M Colina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William George Noid, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member

Author:

Gagnon, Jarod Christopher

Title:

MOCVD growth of GaN on Si through novel substrate modification techniques

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

III/Nitride
MOCVD
Silicon
substrate modification

File:

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Committee Members:

Joan Marie Redwing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Brom, Joseph Edward

Title:

Growth and Characterization of Bismuth Selenide Thin Films by Chemical Vapor Deposition

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CVD
Bi2Se3
bismuth selenide
topological insulator

File:

Download Full_Document_Final_-_Revised_05272014.pdf

Committee Members:

Joan Marie Redwing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member

Author:

Topbasi, Cem

Title:

microstructural evolution of ferritic-martensitic steels under heavy ion irradiation

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

nuclear materials
steels
ion irradiation
iron
defects

File:

Download FINAL_VERSION_THESIS_CEM.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Brian D Wirth, Special Member

Author:

Han, Kuo

Title:

Sol-gel derived polymer composites for energy storage and conversion

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

nanocomposite
P(VDF-CTFE)
ferroelectric
piezoelectric
sol-gel
energy storage

File:

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Committee Members:

Qing Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
Zoubeida Ounaies, Committee Member

Author:

Chaloux, Brian Leonard

Title:

Controlling the Conductivity and Stability of Azoles: Proton and Hydroxide Exchange Functionalities

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

azoles
imidazolium
anhydrous proton conduction
impedance spectroscopy
polymers
polymer chemistry
chemical stability

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Anthony Hickner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member
Harry R Allcock, Committee Member

Author:

Pulati, Nuerxida

Title:

Bitumen Recovery from Oil Sands Using Deep Eutectic Solvent and Its Aqueous Solutions

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Oil Sands
Bitumen
Oil Recovery
Atomic Force Microscopy
Peakforce Tapping QNM
Force Measurement
Deep Eutectic Solvent

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul C Painter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Evangelos Manias, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member

Author:

Khodaparast, Payam

Title:

Dispersion Strategies And Role Of Interfacial Phenomena In Dielectric Polymer Nanocomposites

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

polymer nanocomposite
dispersion
dielectric

File:

Download Full-Dissertation-corrected_after_thesis_office_comments-v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Zoubeida Ounaies, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Evangelos Manias, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

Author:

Cao, Ye

Title:

Phase-field simulation of defect transport, current evolution and piezoelectric response in dielectric and ferroelectric oxides

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Phase-field model
defect transport
resistance degradation
ferroelectric oxides

File:

Download Ye_Cao_PhD_thesis_v4.pdf

Committee Members:

Long Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member

Author:

Castellanos Mantilla, Maria Monica

Title:

Aggregation in concentrated protein solutions: insights from rheology, neutron scattering and molecular simulations

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

protein aggregation
protein rheology
neutron scattering
monoclonal antibody
molecular dynamics
viscosity
yield stress

File:

Download Castellanos2014_Dissertation_vFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Ralph H Colby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Coray M Colina, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Erwin A Vogler, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Jai A Pathak, Special Member

Author:

Maier, Russell Alan

Title:

Dynamics of Oxygen Vacancies and Defect Complexes in the Perovskite Oxide Structure

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

oxygen vacancy
EPR
impedance
defect complex
ionic conductivity

File:

Download Russell_Maier_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan�Trolier�McKinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick M Lenahan, Committee Member
Shujun Zhang, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member

Author:

Grave, Daniel Aldo

Title:

Process-Structure-Property Relationships of Micron Thick Gadolinium Oxide Films Deposited by Reactive Electron Beam-Physical Vapor Deposition (EB-PVD)

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Thin film
Gadolinium Oxide
Gd2O3
neutron detection
residual stress
phase transition

File:

Download Daniel_Grave_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Banerjee, Joy

Title:

The Interfacial Chemistry of Organic Materials on Commercial Glass Surfaces

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

glass
silane
silanization
surface analysis
composite materials
sodium
interfacial chemistry
adsorption
glass
silane
silanization
surface analysis
composite materials
sodium
interfacial chemistry
adsorption

File:

Download 1-PhD_dissertation__Joy_Banerjee_Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Carlo G Pantano, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seong Han Kim, Committee Member
Karl Todd Mueller, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member