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Author:

Hydutsky, Bianca Will

Title:

THE DESIGN AND TRANSPORT OF ZEROVALENT IRON PARTICLES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Environmental emediation
zerovalent iron
iron nanoparticles
transport
dehalogenation
TCE
nanopartical surface modification
PAA

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member

Author:

Dasilva, Ashley Marie

Title:

Transport properties of Dirac fermions in two dimensions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Dirac fermions
graphene
topological insulators
transport
two dimensional systems

File:

Download thesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Meenakshi

Title:

Quantum transport in superconducting, ferromagnetic and normal nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

superconductivity
transport
confined geometry
nanowires
anti-proximity effect
proximity effect
ferromagnetic nanowires

File:

Download MS_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Moses Hung Wai Chan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Zou, Ke

Title:

Transport studies of mono-, bi- and tri- layer graphene

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

graphene
bilayer graphene
trilayer graphene
transport
dielectrics
band structure

File:

Download KEZOU-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member

Author:

Urban, Rachel Lorah

Title:

Pandora's Box: Can We Distinguish Groundwater transport Hypotheses Given Observational uncertainties?

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

groundwater
transport
observational uncertainty

File:

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Committee Members:

Patrick M Reed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamini Singha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Thathachary, Arun V

Title:

Physics, Fabrication And Characterization Of Iii-v Multi-gate Fets For Low Power Electronics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

III-V
low power
CMOS
FinFET
transport
MOSFET
Hall mobility
transconductance
injection velocity

File:

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Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Weihua Guan, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Roman Engel Herbert, Committee Member

Author:

Lacroix, Evrard

Title:

Hydrogen Distribution in Zircaloy Under a Temperature Gradient: A Benchmark Study

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

hydrogen
hydrides
BISON
transport
Soret effect
Fick’s law
Fick's law
precipitation

File:

Download Evrard_Lacroix_MS.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Michael Tonks, Committee Member

Author:

Mina, Odette

Title:

The Fate, Transformation and Persistence of Natural and Synthetic Estrogens in Surface Waters Impacted by Dairy Manure Application and Effluent Irrigation

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

fate
transport
estrogens
degradation
anaerobic
surface runoff
vernal pool
effluent irrigation
dairy manure application
concentration-discharge and load-discharge relationships
comparison of phosphorus and dissolved organic carbon and estrogens exported loads in surface runoff from agricultural fields

File:

Download OdetteMina_Dissertation2016_July15GradSchoolSubmission1.pdf

Committee Members:

Heather E. Gall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather E. Gall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Herschel A. Elliott, Committee Member
John E. Watson, Committee Member
Richard C. Ciocci, Outside Member

Author:

Cartier, Charles Antoine

Title:

Contact Charge Electrophoresis: An Electrostatic Motor for Microfluidics and Active Matter Systems

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

electrophoresis
microfluidics
active matter
syncrhonization
droplet generation
mixing
electrostatic motor
collective motion
droplet microfluidics
portable
charge transfer
colloids
electrohydrodynamic
transport

File:

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Committee Members:

Kyle Bishop, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyle Bishop, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Scott Milner, Committee Member
Ayusman Sen, Outside Member

Author:

Alsuwaidi, Erhamah Salem

Title:

CUTTING TRANSPORT ANALYSIS IN HORIZONTAL WELLS: A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

horizontal well
hole cleaning
cuttings
transport

File:

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Committee Members:

John Yilin Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bersch, Brian

Title:

ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT IN SYNTHETIC TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES AND NOVEL GRAPHENE/METAL HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Two-dimensional materials
MoS2
WSe2
graphene
2D-Ga
2D-metals
superconducting heterostructures
TMDs
transition metal dichalcogenides
confinement heteroepitaxy
CHet
intercalation
SiC
MOCVD
field-effect transistors
transport
2D superconductors
2D heterostructures

File:

Download Dissertation_Bersch_eTD_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Magzymov, Daulet

Title:

Thermodynamics of Complex Fluids for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

thermodynamics
enhanced oil recovery
complex fluids
chemical EOR; EOR; phase behavior
microemulsion
flash calculation
characteristic length
solubilization
alkali
soap
viscous layer
emulsion
k-value
partitioning
viscosity
percolation
composition
ternary diagram
lowsal
low salinity
waterflooding
reservoir simulation
kinetics
dispersion
reactive transport
porous media
transport
thermodynamics enhanced oil recovery
EOR
chemical EOR
surfactant
phase behavior
equilibrium
K-value

File:

Download Daulet_Magzymov_PhD_Dissertation_Penn_State.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Taylor Johns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Themis Matsoukas, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jahn, Kalle He

Title:

Physical and chemical controls on subsurface contaminant fate and transport

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

groundwater
contaminant
transport
PFAS
nitrate
vadoze zone
modeling
Living Filter
Oxisol
perfluoroalkyl

File:

Download KJahn_dissertation_2021.pdf

Committee Members:

John Watson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kate Freeman (she/her), Co-Chair of Committee
Roman DiBiase, Major Field Member
Demian Saffer, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Green, Brett

Title:

Memory Function Formalism for the Electrical Conductivity of Periodic Systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

conductivity
transport
condensed matter
memory function

File:

Download BrettGreenDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Major Field Member
Jun Zhu, Major Field Member
Lasse Jensen, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Jorge Sofo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair