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Author:

Xiong, Yihuang

Title:

First-principles design of metal oxides for renewable energy applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Density functional theory
Photocatalyst
Hydrogen

File:

Download FIRST_PRINCIPLES_DESIGN_OF_METAL_OXIDES_FOR_RENEWABLE_ENERGY_APPLICATIONS.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Raymond Schaak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Janik, Outside Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lee, Sora

Title:

TWO-DIMENSIONAL LAYERED CHALCOGENIDE THIN FILM ELECTRONICS FOR FLEXIBLE, BEOL, AND 3D APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Back end of line
Flexible electronics
Atomic layer deposition
Two-dimensional materials
Transition metal dichalcogenides
3D fabrication
Metal oxides
High-temperature-capable lift-off

File:

Download Sora_Lee_-_Ph.D._dissertation__final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Tom Jackson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Unit & Field Member
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bansal, Anushka

Title:

METALORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF 3D AND 2D GROUP-III NITRIDES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

chemical vapor deposition
group III nitrides
2D materials
gallium nitride
boron nitride
2-dimensional gallium nitride
thin film deposition
semiconductor thin films

File:

Download Bansal_dissertation_08242021.pdf

Committee Members:

Nasim Alem, Major Field Member
Sukwon Choi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Joan Redwing, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fry, Aubrey

Title:

Field Strength Effect on the Elastoplastic and Mechanical Properties of Single Modifier Aluminoborosilicate Glasses

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Glass
field strength
mechanical properties
elastoplastic properties
crack resistance
structure
aluminoborosilicate
glasses
compositional design
strength
toughness
fracture toughness
Young's modulus

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Seong Kim, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Douglas Wolfe, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Simonson, Nicholas

Title:

Low-Temperature Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition of Electronic-Grade Molybdenum Disulfide on Multicomponent Glass Substrates

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D materials
MoS2
molybdenum disulfide
MOCVD
CVD
chemical vapor deposition
metalorganic chemical vapor deposition
electronic and photonic materials
materials synthesis
two-dimensional materials
transition metal dichalcogenides
glass
multicomponent glass
alkali aluminosilicate
alkaline earth boroaluminosilicate
low-temperature CVD
low-temperature synthesis
transparent electronics
flexible electronics

File:

Download Simonson_Nicholas_Dissertation_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Outside Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Todd St.Clair, Special Member
Joshua Robinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cleri, Angela

Title:

Modulating Infrared Optical Response in CdO by Transport Properties and Heterostructure Design

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

plasmonics
cadmium oxide
infrared
optics
materials
transport properties
sputtering
thin film
defect chemistry
plasmon polariton
transparent conducting oxide
nanophotonics
hyperbolic
ion irradiation
high-power impulse magnetron sputtering
HiPIMS
physical vapor deposition
PVD
doping
metamaterials

File:

Download Cleri_Dissertation_20230601.pdf

Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Major Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Noel Giebink, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joshua Caldwell, Special Member
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member

Author:

Leng, Haoyang

Title:

Fundamental Understanding of Crystallographic Texturing and Defect Engineering for High Power Piezoelectric Ceramics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Crystallographic texturing
Defect engineering
High power
Piezoelectric

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Qiming Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shashank Priya, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Clive Randall, Major Field Member
Long-Qing Chen, Major Field Member

Author:

Bocklund, Brandon

Title:

Computational design of additively manufactured functionally graded materials by thermodynamic modeling with uncertainty quantification

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

thermodynamics
CALPHAD
alloys
additive manufacturing
uncertainty quantification
functionally graded materials

File:

Download Bocklund-Dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Michael Janik, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Richard Otis, Special Member

Author:

Peters, Travis

Title:

Extrinsic contributions in lead zirconate titanate films: From defects to devices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ferroelectrics
piezoelectrics
films
clustering
domain mobility
grain boundaries
interfaces
Rayleigh Law
flexoelectric
barrier layer capacitors
microelectromechanical systems
sensing
biomedical monitoring

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Clive Randall, Major Field Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Long-Qing Chen, Major Field Member
Liam Collins, Special Member

Author:

He, Jingyang

Title:

Design and Discovery of High-Performance Nonlinear Optical Crystals for Laser Applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

nonlinear optics
second harmonic generation
nonlinear optical crystal
crystal synthesis

File:

Download JingyangHe_Ph.D._Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Sahin Ozdemir, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zhiqiang Mao, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr

Author:

Clark, Nicholas Lamar

Title:

Processing-Structure-Property Relations In Phase Separated Calcium Aluminosilicate Glasses

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Glass
Phase-sparation
Indentation Hardness
Vickers
Microstructure

File:

Download NLC_Dissertation_Oct_20.pdf

Committee Members:

Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Robert Kimel, Major Field Member

Author:

Im, Sanghyeok

Title:

Electrochemical and Thermodynamic Properties of Neodymium Alloys in Molten Salts for Their Recovery

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Molten Salt Electrochemistry
Neodymium
Nd alloy
Thermodynamic Property
Emf Measurement
Rare-Earth Recovery

File:

Download Sanghyeok_Im_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Major Field Member
Sarma Pisupati, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hojong Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Feifei Shi, Outside Field Member

Author:

Wetherington, Maxwell Turner

Title:

Inelastic Light Scattering and Lattice Dynamics of 2-Dimensional Polar Metals

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Raman Spectroscopy
Polarized Raman
2-Dimensional Materials
Polar Metals
Epitaxial Graphene
Silicon Carbide
Intercalation

File:

Download Inelastic_Light_Scattering_and_Lattice_Dynamics_of_2D_Polar_Metals.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Major Field Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Sukwon Choi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Meredith, Caleb

Title:

Chemical Partitioning and the Role of Asymmetry in the Design of Droplet Microswimmers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

droplets
active matter
solubilization
emulsions
active droplets

File:

Download Caleb_Meredith_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Mauro, Major Field Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Ayusman Sen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Lowum, Sarah

Title:

Ultralow-Temperature Densification of Ceramic, Ionic, and Hybrid Materials via Cold Sintering and Cold Flow

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

cold sintering
cold flow
hydroflux-assisted densification
sintering
ceramics
hybrid perovskites
halide perovskites
magnetic

File:

Download SarahLowum-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jon-Paul Maria, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gary Messing, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Major Field Member
Adri van Duin, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nguyen, Au

Title:

Synthesis and Modification of High-Nickel Cathode Materials for next generation Lithium ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

energy storage
lithium ion batteries
high-Nickel cathode material
synthesis
electrochemistry

File:

Download Au_Nguyen_PS_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sulin Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Donghai Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hojong Kim, Major Field Member
Chao-Yang Wang, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Papula, Dashiell

Title:

The Characterization, Structure Quantification, and Property Enhancement of Multi-Field-Processed Particle Polymer Composites

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multifield Processing
Particle Polymer Composites
Structure Property Relationship
Particle Self-Assembly
Image Processing
Particle Structure Quantification
Magnetoactive Elastomer
Barium Hexaferrite

File:

Download Dashiell_Papula__Master_s_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Zoubeida Ounaies, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paris R Vonlockette, Committee Member
Robert John Hickey, III, Committee Member

Author:

LaNasa, Jacob

Title:

New Avenues to Hybrid Polymer/Inorganic Nanoparticle Materials Using Surface-Initiated Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization and Reaction-Induced Phase Transitions

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Hybrid materials
polymer
nanoparticle
synthesis

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Hickey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Enrique Gomez, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Elacqua, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ruud, Christian John

Title:

Microconcentrators for Space Photovoltaics and Sputtered Nanoporous SiO2 Antireflection Coatings

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CPV
photovoltaics
non-imaging optics
antireflection

File:

Download Christian_Ruud_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Sven Bilén, Outside Unit & Field Member
Noel Giebink, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cheng, Christopher

Title:

Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers Using Lead Zirconate Titanate Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

PMUT
Piezoelectrics
Acoustics
Ultrasound
Transducers
MEMS
Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers

File:

Download Thesis_Draft_Final_Cheng_-_Final_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Trolier-Mckinstry, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tom Jackson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Outside Field Member
Clive Randall, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zu, Rui

Title:

♯SHAARP, an Open-source Package For Modeling Nonlinear Optical Processes For Integrated Photonics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Nonlinear Optics
Electromagnetic waves
Single crystal
Thin films
Second harmonic generation
Ferroelectricity
Polarization
Optics
Modeling
Thin film

File:

Download V6_Rui_Zu_Dissertation_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Outside Unit Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zhiqiang Mao, Outside Field Member
Long-Qing Chen, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bang, Sun Hwi

Title:

Investigation of the cold sintering densification kinetics and microstructural evolution

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cold sintering process
Zinc oxide
Densification
Sintering kinetics
Grain growth

File:

Download SunHwiBang_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Doss, Karan

Title:

Fundamentals of Nonexponential Relaxation in Glass Forming Systems

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Glass Relaxation
Kinetics
Viscosity
Stretched Exponentials
Complex Systems

File:

Download Doss_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Knapp, Gerald

Title:

Mechanistic modeling of heat transfer and fluid flow during fusion-based additive manufacturing of structural alloys

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

numerical modeling
heat transfer
mass transfer
additive manufacturing
alloys

File:

Download Dissertation_Knapp_2021.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Reutzel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jingjing Li, Outside Field Member
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Tarasankar Debroy, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Todd Palmer, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Kronz, Jeffrey

Title:

A Study on the Effects of High Temperature Annealing of Borazine Based hBN Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Boron Nitride
hBN
Borazine
Chemical Vapor Deposition
2D Materials

File:

Download J.Kronz_PhD.Thesis_December2021.pdf

Committee Members:

Nasim Alem, Major Field Member
Mark Horn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joan Redwing, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Snyder, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bostwick, Joshua Everett

Title:

Investigation of Charge Transport and Mechanical Properties in Ion Associating Polymeric Materials

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

polymer electrolyte
ionic liquids
ionic conductivity
dielectric relaxation spectroscopy
rheology
stress-strain behavior
surface morphology

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Hickey, Major Field Member
Ralph Colby, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Hickner, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Bryan Vogt, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Gupta, Shruti

Title:

Additive Manufacturing of Polymer-Derived Ceramics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Polymer derived ceramics
Additive manufacturing
Stereolithography
Polymer pyrolysis
High temperature ceramics
silicon carbide

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Benjamin Lear, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Hickey, Major Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
Michael Hickner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

De Ceanne, Anthony

Title:

Lithium Disilicate Glass-Ceramics Containing Lithium Tantalate As A Secondary Phase

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Glass-ceramics
Lithium disilicate
Lithium tantalate
Machine learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Robert Kimel, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Major Field Member

Author:

Grady, Zane

Title:

Cold Sintering of of Solid-State Sodium-Ion Battery Composites

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ceramics
solid-state batteries
composites
cold sintering
impedance spectroscopy

File:

Download Grady_Dissertation_Final_PDF.pdf

Committee Members:

Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
Feifei Shi, Outside Field Member
Xiaolin Li, Special Member
Clive Randall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bobbio, Lourdes Del

Title:

Design, Fabrication, and Analysis of Additively Manufactured Functionally Graded Materials

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

additive manufacturing
functionally graded materials
CALPHAD
Ti-6Al-4V
Stainless Steel
Equilibrium calculations
Scheil-Gulliver simulations

File:

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Committee Members:

Zi-Kui Liu, Major Field Member
Hojong Kim, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Voigt, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kozhakhmetov, Azimkhan

Title:

MOCVD Synthesis and Doping of FRONT-END-OF-LINE (FEOL) and BACK-END-OF-LINE (BEOL) Compatible Two-Dimensional WSe2

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

two-dimensional materials
2D materials
Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
TMDCs
Chemical Vapor Deposition
CVD
Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition
MOCVD
Doping
WSe2
Rhenium doping
Vanadium doping
Front-end-of-line compatible
Back-end-of-line compatible
Re-WSe2
V-WSe2

File:

Download Azimkhan_Kozhakhmetov_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Outside Unit & Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Field Member
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kaya, Huseyin

Title:

Change in bond parameters & induced stress in the alteration layer of corroded boro-aluminosilicate glass revealed by structural analysis

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

glass
glass corrosion
nuclear waste glass
optical spectroscopy
ellipsometry
thin films
porous materials

File:

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Committee Members:

Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Jorge Sofo, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Myers, Kenneth

Title:

Novel Techniques and Modern Applications of Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Near-Zero-Field Magnetoresistance

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Semiconductors
Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance
Near Zero Field Magnetoresistance
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
Electron Nuclear Double Resonance
Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy
Silicon
Silicon Dioxide
Negative Bias Temperature Instability
FinFET
Hafnium Dioxide
Amorphous Boron

File:

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Committee Members:

Suzanne Mohney, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick Lenahan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Horn, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schrecengost, Jonathon

Title:

Magneto-Optics of Plasmas, Bipolarons in Organic Semiconductors, and Electro-Optics of 2D Metals

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Faraday Rotation
Magneto-Optic
Transparent Conducting Oxides
Plasmonics
Organic Electronics
Bipolarons
Magnetoresistance
OLED
2D Polar Metals
Confinement Heteroepitaxy
Electric-Double-Layer Gating

File:

Download Schrecengost_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
Noel Giebink, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Sahin Ozdemir, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Paz Soldan Palma, Jorge

Title:

Thermodynamic modeling of alkaline and rare earth metal with antimonides for applications in power generation

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CALPHAD
Density Functional Theory
Modified Quasichemical Model
Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
Nuclear waste recycling

File:

Download Paz_Soldan_Palma_Jorge-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Zi-Kui Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristen Fichthorn, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yang, Kezhou

Title:

Exploring Emerging Device Physics for Efficient Spin-Based Neuromorphic Computing

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Neuromorphic computing
Spintronic devices
Spiking neural networks
Bayesian neural networks
Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ)
Stochasticity
Crossbar array
Sneak path current
Voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA)
Hall bar

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Swaroop Ghosh, Major Field Member
Joseph Najem, Outside Unit & Field Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saptarshi Das, Major Field Member

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:

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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:

Nigl, Thomas

Title:

Measurements of Thermochemical Properties of Alloys for Applications in Energy Systems

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Thermodynamics
Electromotive force measurements
Electrochemical separation
Electrorefining
Sr-Pb
Alkaline-earth metals
Ni-Al
Hot corrosion
Combustion

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Hickey, Major Field Member
Arthur Motta, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hojong Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lee, Kuo Hao

Title:

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS OF BOROSILICATE GLASSESS: MECHANICAL RESPONSE UNDER DIFFERENT LOADING CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

molecular dynamics
deformation
plastic flow
shear flow
borosilicate glass
densification
fracture toughness

File:

Download Kuo-Hao_Lee_Dissertation_v3.3.pdf

Committee Members:

Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hojong Kim, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vetser, Adam

Title:

Cold Sintering of Na2Mo2O7 + Hexagonal BN Composites for MLCC Applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

cold sintering
dielectric
MLCC
NMO
hBN

File:

Download COLD_SINTERING_OF_Na2Mo2O7_+_HEXAGONAL_BN_COMPOSITES_FOR_MLCC_APPLICATIONS.pdf

Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gupta, Shruti

Title:

Cold Sintering of Lead Zirconate Titanate Based Composites

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cold sintering process
ceramic process
piezoelectricity
composites
ultrasound transducers
sintering process

File:

Download Shruti_Gupta_Masters_Thesis_-_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Fox, Joshua

Title:

Sintering Process Effects on Structure and Properties of Lead Zirconate Titanate Ceramics for SONAR Projector Applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

piezoelectric ceramics
electroceramics
PZT ceramics
materials science
ceramic processing
sintering
material characterization
acoustic transducers

File:

Download Fox_Thesis_062822.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Mark Andrew Fanton, Special Signatory
Shashank Priya, Committee Member

Author:

Hennessey, Gavin

Title:

Domain Wall Motion In Polycrystalline Ferroelectric Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Polarization
PFM
Grain Boundary
EBSD
Ferroelectrics
Domain Wall Motion
Nonlinearity
Rayleigh

File:

Download GavinTHennessey_Master_sThesisFile_GTH5076.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mc Kinstry, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jon-Paul Maria, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Darren C Pagan, Committee Member

Author:

Fellabaum, Chloe

Title:

Dispersion and Stability Studies for Development of Ceramic Paste for Direct Ink Writing

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Direct Ink Writing (DIW)
Dispersion
Stability
Ceramic

File:

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Committee Members:

Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Robert Allen Kimel, Committee Member
Mark Andrew Fanton, Special Signatory

Author:

Ahn, Marcia Myung

Title:

HARDNESS OF TERNARY W-NB-MO REFRACTORY HIGH MULTICOMPONENT ALLOYS AND SIMULATION OF STRESS-STRAIN CURVES OF PURE W, NB, AND MO THROUGH CPFEM

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

refractory multicomponent alloys
hardness
crystal plasticity finite element method

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Committee Members:

Allison Michelle Beese, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Wesley Reinhart, Committee Member

Author:

Yin, Danqi

Title:

structural origin of dynamical heterogeneities in borosilicate glass

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Borosilicate glass
relaxation
dynamical heterogeneity

File:

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Committee Members:

John C Mauro, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Seong H. Kim, Committee Member

Author:

Wheatley, Christopher

Title:

A feasibility study on the scalability of the cold sintering process through ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

cold sintering
ultrasound
dielectrics
flaw characterization

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrea P. Arguelles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Mike Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Wietecha-Reiman, Ian

Title:

Probing Fatigue Failures In Additively Manufactured Titanium Alloys Using Combined Statistical Aand Fractographic Techniques

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Failure analysis
image analysis
fatigue
titanium alloys
additive manufacturing
failure analysis
image analysis
fatigue
titanium alloys
additive manufacturing
statistics
statistical modeling
processing defects
x-ray computed tomography
XCT
fractography
fractal
topology
general linear model

File:

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Committee Members:

Todd Palmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Jay Keist, Committee Member

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

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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:

Agyapong, Ama Duffie

Title:

A Study of Metal Interactions with Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

TMDS
physical vapor deposition
2D materials
MoS2
WS2
contact metals
Raman spectroscopy
intermetallics
alloys
interfacial reactions
monolayer

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Robert Rioux, Outside Field Member
Suzanne Mohney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Susan Sinnott, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member