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Author:

Yuan, Mengxue

Title:

Development of High Reliability Glass-Polymer Laminates

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Low-alkali Boroaluminosilicate Glass
Laminate
Energy Storage

File:

Download Dissertation_MengxueYuan_final_revised_.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael T Lanagan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qing Wang, Committee Member
Zoubeida Ounaies, Outside Member
Susan B Sinnott, Program Head/Chair
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kahn, Ethan Lewis

Title:

SUBSTRATE ENGINEERING FOR IMPROVED SYNTHESIS OF TWO DIMENSIONAL CHALCOGENIDES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MoS2
WS2
Bi2Te3
2D
Chemical Vapor Deposition
Surfactant

File:

Download thesis-elk_Final_forupload.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member
Susan B Sinnott, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Dixiong

Title:

low temperature processing of electro-ceramic materials and devices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Dielectric energy storage
Cold sintering process
Bismuth niobate
Lead zirconate titanate
Ceramic processing
Energy harvesting

File:

Download Dixiong_Wang_Thesis_submission_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Qing Wang, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lu, Yanfu

Title:

Discovery of low-dimensional functional materials from first-principles calculations

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

perovskite oxides
transition metal dichalcogenides
density functional theory
epitaxy
piezielectricity
ferroelectricity
strain engineering

File:

Download Yanfu__Kelvin__Lu_dissertation_v7.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan B Sinnott, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan B Sinnott, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Walker, Roger Craig

Title:

Impacts of impurities and thermal history on the electrical conduction and charge trapping characteristics in crosslinked polyethylene thin films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

polyethylene
XLPE
LDPE
dielectric spectroscopy
thermally stimulated depolarization current
BDS
TSDC
Meyer-Neldel rule
compensation law
current-voltage measurement
conduction current measurement
IVM
CCM
high-voltage power cable
HVDC
HVAC

File:

Download IMPACTS_OF_IMPURITIES_AND_THERMAL_HISTORY_ON_THE_ELECTRICAL_CONDUCTION_AND_CHARGE_TRAPPING_CHARACTERISTICS_IN_CROSSLINKED_POLYETHYLENE_THIN_FILMS.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael T Lanagan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Member
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
Tze-Chiang Chung, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sengul, Mert Yigit

Title:

ATOMISTIC LEVEL INVESTIGATION OF DISSOLUTION, PRECIPITATION AND SURFACE DIFFUSION DYNAMICS AT THE AQUEOUS INTERFACES USING REAXFF AND APPLICATION OF DEEP LEARNING TO FORCE FIELD PARAMETERIZATION

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cold Sintering Process
ReaxFF
Aqueous Interfaces
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
Molecular Dynamics
Surface Diffusion
Langmuir Model

File:

Download Sengul_MY_Dissertation_MatSE.pdf

Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A. Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Eadie, Christopher

Title:

Directed Energy Deposition and Powder Bed Fusion of AlSi10Mg for Fabrication of Novel Transducer Components

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

AlSi10Mg
aluminum
directed energy deposition
powder bed fusion
tonpilz
transducer
topology optimization
parameter development

File:

Download Eadie-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jayme Scot Keist, Committee Member
Todd Palmer, Committee Member
Kenneth C Meinert, Jr., Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cheng, Xiaoxing

Title:

Influence of defects on polarization distribution in ferroelectrics: a phase-field study

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Defect
Ferroelectrics
Phase-field simulation
Dislocation
Flexoelectricity
Defect engineering
BiFeO3
SrTiO3

File:

Download Xiaoxing_Cheng_Dissertation_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Long-Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Diehl, Brett

Title:

Reducing near-surface voids in metal (T-6Al-4V) powder bed fusion additive manufacturing: the effect of inter-hatch travel time.

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
3D printing
Ti-6Al-4V
Void Formation

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Brett_Diehl_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Abdalla Nassar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Jayme Keist, Committee Member
Dr. Allison Beese, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

El Tantawy, Mohamed

Title:

Effect of Surface Roughness on Corrosion Resistance and Mechanical Properties of Diamond Like Carbon (DLC) Coating System

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

DLC
Corrosion resistance
Friction resistance
Wear resistance
Diamond
Graphite

File:

Download Master_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas Edward Wolfe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Elzbieta Sikora, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Qin, Shipin

Title:

Influence of microstructure on the multiaxial plasticity and fracture of dual phase steels: experiments and multiscale computational modeling

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Dual phase steels
Representative volume element
Multiaxial fracture
Stress state dependent
Fracture mechanism

File:

Download PhD_thesis_Shipin_Qin_v3.2.pdf

Committee Members:

Allison Michelle Beese, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Charles E Bakis, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mathewson, Carly

Title:

Design of a High Thermal Expansion Coefficient, High Glass Transition Temperature Glass for Fiber Optic Use

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Coefficient of thermal expansion
Glass transition temperature
aluminosilicate
glass composition
fiber laser

File:

Download Final_Thesis_4_2_20.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John C Mauro, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lauren Dell Zarzar, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mirabito, Timothy

Title:

Physical Vapor Deposition of Zinc Phthalocyanine Nanostructures on Graphene Templated Substrates: A Study of Reactor Design, Growth Kinetics, and Surface Morphology

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Physical Vapor Deposition
Graphene
Zinc Phthalocyanine
ZnPc
Nanostructures

File:

Download TMirabito_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

David W Snyder, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Borman, Trent Mitchell

Title:

Magnetron sputtering of multicomponent refractory thin films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

UHTCs
sputtering
HiPIMS
reactive sputtering
refractory
thin films
UHTC
carbide
carbides

File:

Download TrentBormanDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jon-Paul Maria, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jon-Paul Maria, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan B Sinnott, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Brian Foley, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Walton, Rebecca

Title:

Direct Writing Crystallographic Orientations to Tailor Properties of Piezoelectric Ceramics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

piezoelectric ceramics
additive manufacturing
direct writing
rheology
dispersion

File:

Download Walton_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Lynn Messing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Mark Andrew Fanton, Special Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Coleman, Kathleen Patricia

Title:

Influences of Stress on the Performance of Lead Zirconate Titanate Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

piezoelectric
thin film
ferroelectric
PZT
stress
electromechanical

File:

Download KColeman_PhDThesis_August2020_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jon-Paul Maria, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Brian Foley, Outside Member
Raul Bermejo, Special Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shi, Yin

Title:

Phase-Field Study of Metal-Insulator Transition in Strongly Correlated Vanadium Dioxide

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Phase-field method
Metal-insulator transition
Strongly correlated material

File:

Download PhDThesis_YinShi.pdf

Committee Members:

Long-Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Outside Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Weinan

Title:

Heat Transport in Semiconducting Metalattices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Heat transport
Computational Materials Science
First-principles
Phononics

File:

Download submit_version_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ismaila Dabo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan B Sinnott, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Brian Foley, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Watson, Beecher

Title:

Maximizing Strain Behavior and Minimizing Losses in Textured PIN-PMN-PT Piezoelectric ceramics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ceramic
piezoelectric
dielectric
ferroelectric
sintering
texture

File:

Download Dissertation_Watson_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Mark Andrew Fanton, Special Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Gary Lynn Messing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Brova, Michael J

Title:

PROCESSING AND PROPERTIES OF HIGH COERCIVE FIELD TEXTURED PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Piezoelectric
Texture
Sintering

File:

Download Michael_Brova_Graduate_Thesis_2020_with_edits.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Lynn Messing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard J. Meyer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jon-Paul Maria, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member
Mark Andrew Fanton, Special Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Hilburn, Skyler

Title:

Tailoring Thermal Expansion in Additively Manufactured Titanium Alloys to Enable Functional Grading

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Thermal Expansion
Coefficient of Thermal Expansion
Functional Graded Materials
Functionally Graded Materials
Titanium

File:

Download Hilburn_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Todd Palmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Todd Palmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Outside Member
Timothy W. Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy W. Simpson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shaffer, Derek

Title:

Role of Retained Austenite in Mechanical Response of Additively Manufactured 17-4 PH Stainless Steel

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Retained Austenite
17-4 PH
Additive Manufacturing
Mechanical Properties

File:

Download djs6031_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Todd Palmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Jayme Scot Keist, Committee Member
Amrita Basak, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kuray, Preeya

Title:

Investigating the Ion Transport Properties of Polymerized Ionic Liquids and Gel Polymer Electrolytes

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

polymer electrolytes
dielectric relaxation spectroscopy
solid state electrolytes
sodium ion battery
gel polymer electrolyte
ion transport

File:

Download Preeya_Kuray_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Anthony Hickner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member
Lauren Dell Zarzar, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Talreja, Disha

Title:

Time-Domain Thermoreflectance Probing of Tunable Thermal Transport in Silicon Metalattices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Time-domain thermoreflectance
Silicon metalattices
Ballistic transport
Mie transition
Thermal transport metalattices
Delay stage configuration
High pressure confined chemical vapor deposition
Thermal rectification

File:

Download PhDthesisDTalreja.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Brian Foley, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Seo, Jiho

Title:

Flow-induced Crystallization of Poly(ether ether ketone)

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Poly(ether ether ketone)
Flow-induced crystallization
rheology
DSC
X-ray scattering
Hoffman-Lauritzen model
Avrami model
Secondary crystallization

File:

Download 201111_Ph.D_Dissertation_Jiho_Seo_FInal.pdf

Committee Members:

Ralph H Colby, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ralph H Colby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott Thomas Milner, Outside Member
Robert John Hickey, III, Committee Member
Alicyn Marie Rhoades, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Alicyn Marie Rhoades, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Burgess, Maximiliano

Title:

The Acetophenone Radical Anion: A Computational Investigation of Preferred Geometries

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Acetophenone
Crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE)
DFT
Molecular dynamics
Reactive force fields
High-voltage cables

File:

Download BurgessM_Thesis_Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Ismaila Dabo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrianus C Van Duin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hahn, Michael

Title:

Flexoelectricity in the Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) System for Hydrophones

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

flexoelectricity
hydrophone
barium strontium titanate
dielectric
lead-free
bulk
electrical characterization
strain gradient
fourth-rank tensor
mechanical characterization

File:

Download Michael_Hahn_Final_Thesis_Draft_102920.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Thomas E Blanford, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Moradifar, Parivash

Title:

Plasmonic resonances in 2D and 3D nanostructures investigated by monochromated electron energy loss spectroscopy (mono-EELS)

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Plasmonic
Topological Insulator
Metamaterials
Metalattice
Si-Ge Core-Shell
Silver Plasmonic
Electron Energy loss Spectroscopy
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
In-situ TEM
Mono-EELS
S/TEM
Defects
Polygonal Defects
Confinement
Interconnectivity
In-Plane Heterostructure
Bi2Te3
Sb2Te3
2D Chalcongenide
Hollow Structure
Cavity Arrays
Long-Range Ordering
High Pressure Confined Chemical Vapor Deposition
HPcCVD
Low-Loss EELS

File:

Download Parivash_Moradifar-PhD_thesis-FV.pdf

Committee Members:

Nasim Alem, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nasim Alem, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Christopher Noel Giebink, Outside Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Special Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Reed, Titus

Title:

Characterization of Additive Manufactured Novel High Nickel, Ni-Ti Alloy

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

60Nitinol
Nickel-Titanium
Ni-Ti
hardenable Ni-Ti
High hardness alloy

File:

Download Reed_Characterization__of_AM_High_Ni_Ni-Ti.pdf

Committee Members:

Todd Palmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald Felix Hamilton, Committee Member
Jayme Scot Keist, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cooley, Kayla Anne

Title:

The Effect of Metal Incorporation on Properties and Critical Interfaces in Germanium Telluride Based Devices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Phase Change Materials
Electrical Contacts
GeTe
Solid-State Reactions
Contact Resistance
Metal-Incorporation
Ternary Phase Diagrams
Transmission Electron Microscopy
Thin Films

File:

Download KaylaCooley-Dissertation-FINAL-Corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Suzanne E Mohney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Nasim Alem, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alzahrani, Atif

Title:

ENABLING SAFE AND HIGH-ENERGY DENSITY ALL SOLID-STATE SULFUR BATTERIES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Li-ion battery
Li-S battery
Solid-state electrolyte
Solid-state battery

File:

No files available due to restrictions.

Committee Members:

Donghai Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donghai Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chao-Yang Wang, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yi, Ning

Title:

fabrication of wearable multifunctional sensors on biodegradable, stretchable, and 3D complicated surfaces

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

transient electronics
wearable electronics
gas sensor

File:

Download Thesis_Ning_Yi_revised-.pdf

Committee Members:

Huanyu Cheng, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Huanyu Cheng, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jian Yang, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Todd Palmer, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kuei, Brooke

Title:

Pushing The Resolution Limits For Imaging Conjugated Polymers In The Transmission Electron Microscope

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Transmission electron microscopy
conjugated polymers
beam damage

File:

Download Dissertation_Brooke_Kuei.pdf

Committee Members:

Enrique Daniel Gomez, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
Nasim Alem, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Bo

Title:

Phase-field study on electromechanical phenomena in ferroelectric single crystals and thin films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Phase-field modeling
Ferroelectric materials
Piezoelectric effect
Flexoelectric effect
Domain structure

File:

Download Dissertation-vfin.pdf

Committee Members:

Long-Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member
Qiang Du, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Subramanian, Shruti

Title:

Engineering Epitaxial Graphene-based 2D Heterojunctions for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D materials
Heterostructures
Lateral Heterostructures
Epitaxial Graphene
MoS2
Contacts
Optoelectronics
Electronics
Intercalation
Photocurrent
nano-ARPES
Tunable

File:

Download Subramanian_Dissertation_06182020_Post_format_review.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member
Susan K. Fullerton-Shirey, Special Member
Ursula Wurstbauer, Special Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Baker, Remmi

Title:

Just Keep Swimming: Designing and Fabricating Autonomous Artificial Microswimmers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

microswimmer
chemistry
physics
synthetic biology
artificial swimmer
artificial life
nanofabrication
3d printing
lithography
colloids
drug delivery
medicine
microfluidics
biology
biomimic
robotics
microrobotics

File:

Download baker_Finalizedthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Igor S Aronson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Igor S Aronson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hansell Adair, Outside Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
Lauren Dell Zarzar, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Seo, Joo Hwan

Title:

Cold Sintering Process for Materials and Their Integration Enabling All-Solid-State Li-ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cold sintering process
All-solid-state Li-ion battery
Solid-state electrolyte
Densification
Volumetric capacity
Ionic conductivity
Interface

File:

Download Joo-Hwan_Dissertation_Final_REVISION.pdf

Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donghai Wang, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Member
Thomas E. Mallouk, Special Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fanghanel, Julian

Title:

Semiconductor Photoelectrodes For Photocatalytic Energy Conversion & Semiconductor Nanorods For Solid State Lighting

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Photocatalysis
Photocatalytic
Hydrogen
Water Splitting
Quantum Wells
Solid State Lighting
Nanorods
Optoelectronics
Heterojunctions
Energy
Photoelectrodes

File:

Download Julian_Thesis_Final_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Briggs, Natalie

Title:

Novel Synthesis of 2-Dimensional Group III and IV Metals and Binary Compounds

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D materials
Silicon carbide
Intercalation
Epitaxial graphene
2D metals
Confinement heteroepitaxy
2D nitrides

File:

Download Briggs_dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Susan B Sinnott, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Member
Thomas Mallouk, Special Member
Susan B Sinnott, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Lin

Title:

Static and Dynamic Wetting on Bio-inspired Compact Nano-Textured Surfaces

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

hydrophobic surface
bio-inspired
water-repellent insects
high solid fraction
contact time
bouncing droplets
reentrant pillars
hoodoo pillars
pressure stability

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation-Lin_Wang-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Tak Sing Wong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tak Sing Wong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Pak Kin Wong, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair