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Author:

Mayernick, Adam David

Title:

Hydrocarbon Conversion Catalysis on Ceria-based Mixed Metal Oxides

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Density Functional Theory
Palladium
Catalysis
Ceria
Hydrocarbon Oxidation

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael John Janik, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael John Janik, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member

Author:

Shang, Gao

Title:

THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS OF ELECTRON-RICH PHOSPHORUS-CONTAINING LIGANDS IN ASYMMETRIC HYDROGENATION

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Asymmetric hydrogenation
Catalysis
chiral phosphorus-containing ligands

File:

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Committee Members:

Xumu Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven M Weinreb, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Harry R Allcock, Committee Member
Beth A Williams, Committee Member
Yanming Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Jiayun

Title:

CATALYTICALLY PRODUCED ELECTROKINETICS: TOWARDS CHANNELESS MICROFLUIDICS

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Catalysis
Electroosmosis
Electrophoresis
Microfluidics

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey M Catchmark, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Xiaowei

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS OF PHOSPHORUS LIGANDS IN RHODIUM-CATALYZED HYDROFORMYLATION AND HYDROGENATION

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Hydroformylation
Phosphorus ligand
Rhodium
Catalysis
Hydrogenation

File:

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Committee Members:

Professor Xumu Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xumu Zhang, Committee Member
Gong Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Harry R Allcock, Committee Member
Qing Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Krcha, Matthew David

Title:

Cleanup of Biomass Gasification Effluent Using M-doped Ceria Catalysts

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Density Functional Theory
Catalysis
Ceria
Dopant
Hydrocarbon
Sulfur

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael John Janik, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael John Janik, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member
Scott Thomas Milner, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member

Author:

Senftle, Thomas Patrick

Title:

Development of Multi-scale Computational Methods for Modeling Phase Formation in Pd-Based Catalysts

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Catalysis
DFT
ReaxFF
Palladium
Ceria

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael John Janik, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael John Janik, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member
Scott Thomas Milner, Committee Member

Author:

Popczun, Eric John

Title:

Nanostructured Earth-abundant Materials as Catalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanoscience
Metal phosphide
Hydrogen evolution
Nanoparticles
Electrochemistry
Electrocatalysis
Earth-abundant
Catalysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

Author:

Nack, William Andrew

Title:

N-Heterocycle Synthesis via Bidentate-Auxiliary Directed Remote C-H Functionalization

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

C-H Functionalization
Palladium
Catalysis
Heterocycles

File:

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Committee Members:

Gong Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gong Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alexander Radosevich, Committee Member
Kenneth Feldman, Committee Member
Charles Anderson, Outside Member

Author:

Frankel, Erica Ann

Title:

Towards Investigation of RNA Catalysis and Compartmentalization

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

RNA
Catalysis
Compartmentalization
Cooperativity
Origins of Life

File:

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Committee Members:

Philip C. Bevilacqua, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
Amie Kathleen Boal, Committee Member
James Kasting, Outside Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Weitzner, Stephen E

Title:

Quantum–Continuum Modeling of Electrodeposition

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Electrochemistry
Density functional theory
DFT
Solvation
Quantum-Continuum
Interface
Electrodeposition
Underpotential deposition
Thermodynamics
Statistical Mechanics
Monte Carlo
Implicit solvent
Multiscale
Alloy
Electrode
Catalysis
Electrocatalysis
UPD
Cluster expansion

File:

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Committee Members:

Ismaila Dabo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph Colby, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Michael Janik, Outside Member

Author:

Maghirang, Kayla

Title:

Palladium Zinc Based Intermetallic Catalysts to Probe Hydrogenation Active Site Ensembles

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Intermetallic compounds
Intermetallic catalysis
Catalysis
Hydrogenation
Palladium Zinc
Pd-Zn
Gamma brass
DFT

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael John Janik, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hilal Ezgi Toraman, Committee Member
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Darling, Albert

Title:

Engineering Nanostructured Inorganic Materials and Nanoscale Stabilized Structural Features for Heterogeneous Catalysts

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanomaterials
Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
Nitroarene Hydrogenation
Catalysis
High Entropy Alloys
Bulk-Immiscible Alloys
Heterogeneous Catalysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Robert Rioux, Outside Unit & Field Member
Elizabeth Elacqua, Major Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chesley, Lucas

Title:

Palladium-Catalyzed Nonclassical Dicarbofunctionalization of Skipped Dienes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Organic chemistry
Organometallic Chemistry
Organic Synthesis
Palladium
Catalysis
Dicarbofunctionalization
Alkene
Nonconjugated
Dienes
Skipped Dienes

File:

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Committee Members:

Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Ramesh Giri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Nacsa, Committee Member
Elizabeth A Elacqua, Committee Member
Emily E Weinert, Committee Member

Author:

Haines, Christopher

Title:

Electrochemistry as a Synthetic Tool for Dehydration Reactions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Electrochemistry
Organic
Synthesis
Dehydration
Catalysis

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Committee Members:

Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
C Okafor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ramesh Giri, Major Field Member
Eric Nacsa, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Squire Booker, Major Field Member

Author:

Huss, Steven

Title:

Chemical Reactivity Under Confinement: High-Pressure Synthesis of Carbon Nanothreads and Polymer-Based Catalysts

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanothreads
Polymers
Single-Chain Polymer Nanoparticles
Photoredox
Catalysis
Electron Transfer
Energy Transfer
High-Pressure

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Committee Members:

Ramesh Giri, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Elacqua, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Enrique Gomez, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Piane, Jacob

Title:

New Catalytic Concepts for Electron-Transfer Promoted Reactions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Catalysis
Electrochemistry
Electrocatalysis
Phenothiazine
Photoredox
Pyrylium
Dehydration
Single-Chain Polymer Nanoparticles
Electron Transfer
Acyl Substitution
Amidation
Oxidation
Dimerization
Esterification

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Elacqua, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Nacsa, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christian Pester, Outside Unit & Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Jonathan Kuo, Major Field Member

Author:

Katzbaer, Rowan

Title:

Rational Discovery of Inorganic Material Properties

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Catalysis
Inorganic
Chemistry

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Committee Members:

Kenneth Knappenberger, Major Field Member
Zhiqiang Mao, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lakomy, Margaret

Title:

Construction of Carbo- and Heterocycles Through Alkene Difunctionalization

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Catalysis
cyclization
heterocycles

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Ramesh Giri, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Nacsa, Major Field Member
Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Program Head/Chair
Emily Weinert, Outside Unit & Field Member