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Author:

Urban, Nathan Mark

Title:

Thermodynamics and structure of fluids physisorbed on nanotubes

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

semiclassical
heat capacity
low dimensional physics
restricted geometries
cylindrical geometry
nanotube bundle
thin film
nanopore
nanotube
Monte Carlo
condensed matter physics
thermodynamics
quantum mechanics
statistical mechanics
physisorption
simulation
computational physics
surface physics
surface science
surface adsorption
effective potential
Bose gas
quantum gas
quantum fluid
quantum solid
argon
hydrogen
carbon
magnesium oxide

File:

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Committee Members:

Milton Walter Cole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member

Author:

Suarez, Alejandro M

Title:

Theory and Simulation of Atomic Hydrogen, Fluorine, and Oxygen on Graphene

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

graphene
adsorption
surface science
density functional theory
DFT
graphane
fluorographene
graphene oxide

File:

Download AMSuarez_Thesis_2012_v22_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Barthel, Anthony James

Title:

Vapor Adsorption And Reaction At Interfaces During tribological Sliding

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

tribology
surface science
mechanochemistry
vapor phase lubrication

File:

Download Anthony_Barthel_dissertation_format_v6.pdf

Committee Members:

Seong H Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member
Kyle Jeffrey Magnuson Bishop, Committee Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member

Author:

Popczun, Nicholas James

Title:

FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES OF MOLECULAR SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY IONIZATION PROBABILITY MEASURED WITH FEMTOSECOND, INFRARED LASER POST-IONIZATION

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

secondary ion mass spectrometry
secondary neutral mass spectrometry
mass spectrometry
time-of-flight
ionization
laser post-ionization
femtosecond
organic
surface science
ionization probability

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_NJPopczun_.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas Winograd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Themis Matsoukas, Outside Member

Author:

Sheth, Nisha Sanjay

Title:

A surface science perspective of the usable strength of glass

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

glass
surface science
surface characterization
mechanical properties of materials

File:

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Committee Members:

Seong Han Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seong Han Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carlo G. Pantano, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Outside Member

Author:

White, Keith

Title:

Comparative Studies of α- & δ- Plutonium Allotropes & Plutonium Oxidation Mechanisms by Photoemission Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

XPS
photoemission
surface science
plutonium
surface
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Auger
f-electron
actinide
oxide

File:

Download KWhite-MS-Thesis-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Lenahan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Amanda M. Johnsen, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Goff, James

Title:

Multiscale Modeling of Materials for Clean Energy Storage and Conversion

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

computational
electrochemistry
materials science
energy
atomistic simulation
cluster expansion
density functional theory
molecular dynamics
Monte Carlo
alloy
catalyst
battery
surface science

File:

Download Dissertation_final_JG.pdf

Committee Members:

Kristen Fichthorn, Minor Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Janik, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wong, Andrew

Title:

Electrocatalysis at the atomic scale: Complexities at the electrode-electrolyte interface

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

DFT
electrocatalysis
heterogeneous catalysis
computational chemistry
electrochemistry
surface science
interfaces
chemical engineering
cations
CO2 reduction
wastewater remediation

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Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Robert Rioux, Major Field Member
Robert Rioux, Special Member
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit & Minor Member
Raymond Schaak, Outside Field Member
Michael Janik, Chair & Dissertation Advisor