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Author:

Marques Dos Santos Vieira, Francisco

Title:

Electronic Structure of High Entropy Ceramics: Mechanisms of Property Emergence

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

High entropy
high-entropy
oxides
DFT
DFT+U
Band gap

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Sinnott, Major Field Member
Zhiqiang Mao, Major Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Special Member

Author:

Holoviak, Stephen

Title:

Atomistic Materials Modeling Applied to 2D Heterostructures and Electrocatalysis

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Density functional theory
molecular dynamics
platinum
gallium oxide

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Kristen Fichthorn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member

Author:

Tipsawat, Pannawit

Title:

Released Piezoelectric Thin Films for Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (PMUT)

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Piezoelectric thin films
PMUT
MEMS
Effective longitudinal piezoelectric coefficient
PZT
Neurostimulation
Released piezoelectric thin films
Acoustic
Ultrasound

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tom Jackson, Major Field Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Outside Unit & Field Member
Andrea Arguelles, Major Field Member

Author:

Wang, Jiayang

Title:

A first-principles study of low dimensional transition metal carbides and transition metal dichalcogenides

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D materials
transition metal carbides
transition metal dichalcogenides
DFT
superconductivity

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Krajewski, Adam

Title:

Efficient Materials Informatics between Rockets and Electrons

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

materials informatics
materials discovery
scientific computing
machine learning
artificial intelligence
database design
high entropy alloys
compositionally complex materials
functionally graded materials
extreme environments
hypersonics
data driven
thermodynamics
graphs
compositional spaces
python
nim
CALPHAD
HEA
FGM
ULTERA
pySIPFENN
MPDD
alloy design
inverse design

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
Wenrui Hao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member

Author:

Yousefian, Pedram

Title:

Oxygen Vacancy Dynamics and Their Impact on Reliability of BaTiO3-based Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs)
BaTiO3
Reliability
Oxygen Vacancy
Lifetime Prediction
Machine Learning
Common Cause Failure
HALT
TSDC

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yang Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Nordlander, Josh

Title:

Magnetron Sputtering of III-N Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GaN
III-N
sputter deposition

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Rongming Chu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
Stephanie Law, Major Field Member

Author:

Shimanek, John

Title:

Predictive Crystal Plasticity Modeling of Face-Centered Cubic Metals using Multiscale Computational Techniques

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

crystal plasticity
density functional theory
dislocation dynamics
finite element method
graph theory

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Reuben Kraft, Outside Unit & Field Member
Allison Beese, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wesley Reinhart, Major Field Member

Author:

Mc Knight, Thomas

Title:

Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition and In-Situ Characterization of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition
MOCVD
2D Materials
MoS2
WTe2
WS2
In-situ Characterization
Spectroscopic Ellipsometry
SE
Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Thin Films
TMDs
WSe2

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Joan Redwing, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Douglas Wolfe, Major Field Member
Danielle Hickey, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Andrewlavage, Eric

Title:

Microstructural And Welding Impacts Of Minor Boron Additions In Austenitic Stainless Steel

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Stainless Steel
Boron
Weld Cracking
Liquation Cracking
Chromium Boride
Kinetics
Microstructural Analysis
Phase Development
Laser Welding

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Committee Members:

Todd Palmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jay Keist, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Jingjing Li, Committee Member

Author:

Finch, Nicholas

Title:

Quantifying Variability in Laser Welding of Stainless-Steel Alloy 304

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Numerical modeling
heat transfer and fluid flow
welding
laser
stainless steel
process control
uncertainty
variability
thermophysical properties
material properties

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Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Darren C Pagan, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Todd Palmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jingjing Li, Committee Member

Author:

Rondomanski, Patrick

Title:

Toward the Fabrication of Magnesium Diboride-based Quantum Devices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

superconductors
graphene
hybrid physical vapor deposition
intercalation
magnesium diboride
nanowires

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Qi Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Morteza Kayyalha, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joan Redwing, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Li, Bo

Title:

“structured” multi-filler nanocomposites with novel dielectric properties

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

dielectric constant and loss
polymer clay composites
dielectric breakdown
structured composites
barrier properties

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Committee Members:

Evangelos Manias, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Evangelos Manias, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Special Member

Author:

Ben Mabrouk, Amira

Title:

The Role of Physical Barrier Functions of Polyethylene Glycol Modified Nanoparticles in Modulating Their Blood Circulation

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

drug delivery
PEGylation
liver endothelial cells
nanoparticle clearance.
Nanoparticles Clearance
Liver Endothelial cells
NMR Relaxometry
Drug Delivery

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Committee Members:

Urara Hasegawa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Scott H Medina, Committee Member

Author:

Mirabito, Timothy

Title:

METALORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF ALGAN AND GAN NANOSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MOCVD
III-Nitrides

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Joan Redwing, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Snyder, Major Field Member
Luke Lyle, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Fest Carreno, Andres

Title:

Mechanical activation of van der Waals materials at cryogenic temperature

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mechanical activation
cryomilling
van der Waals materials
hydrogen evolution reaction
graphite
molybdenum disulfide

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Reiss, Justin

Title:

Development of Solid State Radiation Detectors Comprised of Halide and Oxide Perovskites

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Radiation Detection
Single Crystal Growth
Ceramics Processing
Metal-Halide Perovskites

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
Timothy Eden, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Albert, Patrick

Title:

Optimized Processing of High Density Ternary Hafnium-Tantalum Carbides and Molybdenum Alloys Via Field Assisted Sintering Technology

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Field Assisted Sintering Technology (FAST)
Spark plasma Sintering (SPS)
refractory materials
ultrahigh temperature ceramics (UHTC)

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Jay Keist, Major Field Member
Timothy Eden, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Mark Traband, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Turker, Furkan

Title:

Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Oxides via Intercalation through Epitaxial Graphene towards 2D/3D Hot Electron Transistors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

epitaxial graphene
two-dimensional
indium oxide
gallium oxide
intercalation
hot electron transistor
graphene schottky diode

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Rongming Chu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Maxwell Wetherington, Major Field Member

Author:

Lloyd, Elisabeth

Title:

Tuning Structure and Properties of Porous Hydrogels Exhibiting Properties Reminiscent of Natural Tissues from the Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Triblock Copolymers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrogels
Porous Hydrogels
Biomimicry
Amphiphilic Block Copolymers
Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Robert Hickey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hee Jeung Oh, Outside Unit & Field Member
Urara Hasegawa, Major Field Member
Ralph Colby, Major Field Member

Author:

Littmann, Tyler

Title:

Cold spray deposition behavior, characterization, and erosion performance of polyetheretherketone-nickel composites using ball milling for deposition on fiber reinforced plastics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cold Spray
Erosion Resistance
Composite Coatings
Ball Milling

File:

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Committee Members:

Douglas Edward Wolfe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Timothy John Eden, Committee Member

Author:

Liao, Jie

Title:

OPTIMIZING BATTERY SAFETY AND PERFORMANCE IN HARSH CONDITIONS THROUGH ELECTROLYTE ENGINEERING AND CELL DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

lithium ion battery
extremely fast charging
high temperature stability
lithium metal battery safety
lithium deposition
lithium plating
electrolyte decomposition

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Chao-Yang Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Qing Wang, Major Field Member
Feifei Shi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ralph Colby, Major Field Member

Author:

Knoepfel, Abbey

Title:

Development of Sensors for the Improvement of Precision Livestock Farming of Ruminants

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Zinc oxide
Biosensor
Gas Sensors
Electrochemical system
Metal oxide semiconductors

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Shashank Priya, Special Member
Nutifafa Yao Doumon, Major Field Member
Bed Poudel, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bo Cheng, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Adair, Major Field Member

Author:

Skidmore, Chloe

Title:

Structure Property Relationships and Energy Release in Thermite Reactive Nanolaminates

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

energetic materials
thermite
nanocomposites
physical vapor deposition
reactive nanolaminates

File:

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Committee Members:

Darren Pagan, Major Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Richard Yetter, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Reed, Titus

Title:

Influence of Phosphates on Phase Formation and Pore Solution in Alkali-activated MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-P2O5 Cements

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

alkali-activated materials
phosphate
layered double hydroxides
cement phase formation
phosphates
XRD
cement
phase formation
pH

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Yashar Mehmani, Outside Unit & Field Member
Juan Pablo Gevaudan Burgos, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Maziar Montazerian, Major Field Member

Author:

Hauke, Brittney

Title:

Time to Relax: Relaxation Behavior of Sodium Aluminosilicate Glasses from Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

glass
relaxation
sodium aluminosilicate glass
thermal analysis
modulated differential scanning calorimetry
MDSC
glass relaxation

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member

Author:

Wietecha-Reiman, Ian

Title:

Building a Robust Framework to Crowdsource Material Property Data for Structural Alloys Processed Through Advanced Manufacturing Routes

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

materials science
metallurgy
statistics
machine learning
fatigue
tensile
austenitic stainless steel
316L
titanium
alloy
alloys
Ti-6Al-4V
Ti64
design allowables
additive manufacturing
AM
laser-powder bed fusion
powder bed fusion
L-PBF
directed energy deposition
DED
meta-analysis
meta-data
data quality
data stewardship
database
microstructure
inclusions
secondary phases
porosity
defects
reliability
composition
powder feedstock
supply chain
data science
oxides
nitrides

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Jay Keist, Major Field Member
Todd Palmer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Darren Pagan, Outside Unit Member
Albert Segall, Outside Field Member

Author:

Almishal, Saeed

Title:

Oxides with High Entropy

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Entropy
Thin Films
Pulsed Laser Deposition
Bulk Ceramic Synthesis
Chemical Disorder
Correlated Electron Oxides
Epitaxy

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Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vincent Crespi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Long-Qing Chen, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kirchner, Katelyn

Title:

Fluctuations in Bulk and Thin Film Glasses

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Statistical mechanics
Glass
Thin film silica
Structure
Fluctuations
Ion exchange

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Robert Kimel, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Sushmit Goyal, Special Member

Author:

Foster, Linsea

Title:

Surface engineering of metal, graphite, and metal-graphite composites for improved strength and various material properties

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cold sintering
Surface engineering
Powder metal
Powder carbon
Green machining
Soft magnetic composites

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Michael Lanagan, Major Field Member
Randy Vander Wal, Outside Unit & Field Member
Clive Randall, Major Field Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daudi Waryoba, Special Member
Daudi Waryoba, Special Member

Author:

Son, Yeongwoo

Title:

COMPOSITIONALLY COMPLEX PEROVSKITE OXIDES: DIELECTRIC, FERROELECTRIC, ELECTROCALORIC, AND ENERGY STORAGE PROPERTIES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

High entropy perovskite oxide
Pulsed laser deposition
ferroelectricity
dielectric relaxation
relaxor ferroelectric
polarization stability
electrocaloric effects
energy storage
antiferroelectric

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Qiming Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Major Field Member

Author:

Le, Linh

Title:

MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT TO ENABLE HIGH-ENERGY DENSITY AND LONG-CYCLING LI METAL BATTERIES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Electrolytes
Li Protection
Lithium Batteries
Fast-charging

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John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Donghai Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hojong Kim, Major Field Member
Adri van Duin, Major Field Member
Feifei Shi, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Clark, Jacob

Title:

Schottky Contact Metallizations for GaN

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GaN
Gallium Nitride
Atomic Layer Deposition
Schottky Barrier
Physical Vapor Deposition
Molybdenum Carbonitride
Schottky Diode
Contacts
Metal Nitrides
Metallization

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Suzanne E Mohney, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick M Lenahan, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Rongming Chu, Committee Member

Author:

Ryan, Caillin

Title:

Investigating the effects of configurational entropy on the hardening of transition metal-based carbonitride ceramics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Hardness
Ceramics
High Entropy Carbonitrides (HECNs)
TiCN
Configurational Entropy
Microindentation
Nanoindentation
Entropy-Hardening
Alloys
FAST
Single-phase
Multiphase
Cations
Anions
Synthesizability
Hardness-Standardization
Physiochemical
Elastoplasticity

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Md Haque, Outside Unit & Field Member
Timothy Eden, Chair & Dissertation Advisor