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Author:

Washton, Nancy Maurer

Title:

DETERMINATION OF OXIDE SURFACE REACTIVITY VIA SOLID-STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE AND AB INITIO METHODS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

chlorosilane
surface modification
reaction pathways
ab initio
aluminosilicates
reactive surface area
NMR

File:

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Committee Members:

Karl Todd Mueller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member
James David Kubicki, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member

Author:

Roach, Patrick John

Title:

THE REACTIVITY OF ALUMINUM CLUSTERS AS A FUNCTION OF ATOM NUMBER

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

ALUMINUM CLUSTER
SUPERATOM

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul S Weiss, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member

Author:

Sanders, Rebecca L.

Title:

CLAY MINERAL REACTIVITY ACROSS SCALES UTILIZING SOLID-STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

reactive surface area
clay minerals
NMR
dissolution
kaolinite
montmorillonite
Shale Hills
TFS

File:

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Committee Members:

Karl Todd Mueller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Todd Mueller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
James David Kubicki, Committee Member

Author:

Woodward, William Henry Hunter

Title:

Aluminum Cluster Anion Reactivity: Applications in Energetic Materials and Catalysts

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

cluster deposition
aluminum
clusters
cluster reactivity

File:

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Committee Members:

Castleman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Xiang

Title:

Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Conventional Solvent and Ionic Liquids

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Ultrafast Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Ionic Liquids
Charge Transfer

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Maroncelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tom Mallouk, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Committee Member

Author:

Pensack, Ryan

Title:

Measuring the Barrier to Charge Transfer State Dissociation in Organic Photovoltaic Materials with Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy
charge transfer state
organic photovoltaics

File:

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Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Todd Mueller, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member

Author:

Liang, Min

Title:

Solvation and electron transfer in ionic liquids

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Solvation dynamics
ionic liquids
bimolecular electron transfer

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Maroncelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Committee Member

Author:

Morton, Seth Michael

Title:

Electrodynamic and Electronic Structure Methods to Model Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy and Molecule-metal Nanoparticle Optical Coupling

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

surface enhanced
Raman
spectroscopy
electronic structure
hybridization
theory
plasmonics
plasmon
nanoparticle
electrodynamics

File:

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Committee Members:

Lasse Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Special Member

Author:

Cheunkar, Sarawut

Title:

Molecular Self-Assembly For Biological Investigations and Nanoscale Lithography

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

self-assembled monolayers
g-protein coupled receptors
alkanethiols
lithography
and microcontact insertion printing

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul S Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne M Andrews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
David John Vandenbergh, Special Member

Author:

Kaintz, Anne Elizabeth

Title:

Translational and Rotational Diffusion in Ionic Liquids

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

diffusion
hydrodynamic
Inversion Recovery
ionic liquid
PFG-NMR
rotation
Stokes Einstein Debye
translation
viscosity

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Maroncelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan James Benesi, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Special Member

Author:

Silverstein, Daniel William

Title:

Applications of Time-dependent Quantum Mechanics to Resonantly-enhanced Linear and Nonlinear Optical Processes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory
Linear Optical Properties
Nonlinear Optical Properties
Raman Scattering

File:

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Committee Members:

Lasse Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Victor Nistor, Special Member

Author:

Kim, Jihye

Title:

Charge Transport in Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

charge transport
lead sulfide quantum dot
transient infrared absorption spectroscopy
quantum dot photovoltaics

File:

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Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Tom Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Jeong, Kwang Seob

Title:

Transient Infrared Spectroscopy of Charge Transport in Emerging Photovoltaic Materials.

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Transient infrared spectroscopy
PbS CQD
Nanomaterials
Organic photovoltaic materials
Solar cell.

File:

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Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Vaughn, Dimitri Duval

Title:

Nanosheets by Design: The Controllable Synthesis of Group IV-VI Layered Semiconductor Chalcogenide Nanostructures Using Colloidal Chemistry

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanoscience
Layered Semiconductors
Nanosheets
Germanium
Colloidal Synthesis
Chalcogenide

File:

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Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Day, Todd Douglas

Title:

High Pressure Chemical Deposition of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon in Extreme Geometries

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

hydrogenated amorphous silicon
high pressure
chemical vapor deposition
optoelectronics
optical fiber

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Committee Members:

John V Badding, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harry R Allcock, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member

Author:

Swierk, John R

Title:

Electron Transfer Kinetics in Water-splitting Dye-sensitized Photoelectrochemical Cells

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Photoelectrochemical
Water oxidation
catalysis
water-splitting
TiO2

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas E Mallouk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member

Author:

Okur, Halil Ibrahim

Title:

Hofmeister Chemistry: weak Cation Binding To Protein Backbones & biomolecular Size Influence On Specific Ion Effects

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Hofmeister
Ions
Aqueous Solution
Macromolecules

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul S Cremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Cremer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Sheereen Majdzarringhalamaraghy, Committee Member

Author:

Breffke, Jens

Title:

Ultrafast molecular rotor and proton transfer dynamics in solution

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

fluorescence
solvent effect
ultrafast spectroscopy
malononitriles
Thioflavin T
4-diethylamino-3-hydroxyflavone

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Maroncelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Yi

Title:

Vibrational Sum Frequency spectroscopy of Osmolytes and Ions at Aqueous Interface

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

vibrational sum frequency generation
trimethylamine N-oxide
maximum entropy method
ionic specific binding

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul S Cremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Cremer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Kurt Gibble, Committee Member
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Member

Author:

Hess, Andrew R

Title:

Phosphazenes for Energy Production and Storage: Applied and Exploratory Synthesis

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

phosphazene
polyphosphazene
polymer electrolytes
DSSC
dye sensitized solar cell
lithium battery
lithium-ion battery

File:

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Committee Members:

Harry R Allcock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John V Badding, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Special Member