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Author:

Main, Alexei Seresin

Title:

MORPHOLOGY STUDY OF ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS AND ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

solar energy
organic photovoltaics
nanoimprint lithography
anisotropy
electroactive polymers

File:

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Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Banyas, Kyle Mark

Title:

EXAMINING CHARGE CARRIER TRAPPING AND RECOMBINATION IN ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

CHARGE CARRIER RECOMBINATION
CHARGE CARRIER TRAPPING
ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS

File:

Download M.S._Thesis_Kyle_Banyas.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John V Badding, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Barbour, Larry W

Title:

EXAMINING ELECTRON TRANSFER AND CHARGE TRANSPORT IN ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

OPV
PCBM
PPV
Charge Transfer Dynamics
Charge Seperation

File:

Download Thesis_Complete.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hegadorn, Maureen

Title:

The Significance of Morphology in Organic Photovoltaic Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

organic photovoltaics
morphology

File:

Download Final_Thesis_pdf.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Todd Mueller, Committee Member
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Member

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:

Download WashtonNancyMPhD.pdf

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:

Download Roach_Thesis_Final.pdf

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:

Download RLSanders_Dissertation_110411.pdf

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:

Download Woodward_Thesis_Final.pdf

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:

Download Thesis_XiangLi.pdf

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:

Download Ryan_Pensack_Thesis.pdf

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:

Download Min_Liang_final_dissertation.pdf

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:

Download SethMorton-PSUThesis.pdf

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:

Download Sarawut_Final_Dissertation_Submission_fixed.pdf

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:

Download Diffusion_in_Ionic_Liquids.pdf

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:

Download DanielSilverstein-PSUThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Vakhshouri, Kiarash

Title:

Charge Transport through Inhomogeneous Polymeric Materials

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Charge mobility
X-ray diffraction
Intracrystalline
Intercrystalline
Crystallinity
Morphology
Structure
Miscibility

File:

Download Kiarash_Vakhshouri_PhD_Thesis_2013-07-08.pdf

Committee Members:

Enrique Daniel Gomez, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Scott Thomas Milner, Committee Member
John B Asbury, 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:

Download Jihye_Kim_final_PhD_dissertation.pdf

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:

Download Dissertation_Kwang_Seob_Jeong_Final.pdf

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:

Averill, Christopher Michael

Title:

Development of a Novel Electro-optical Vibrational Spectroscopy Technique to Inform Organic Electronic Materials Design

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Organic Electronics
Infrared Spectroscopy
Electro-Optical Spectroscopy
Flexible Electronics

File:

Download Averill_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wrubel, Joshua Michael

Title:

Development of a photoacoustic instrument for the determination of the photothermal properties of nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

chemistry
analytical
photoacoustic
nanoparticles
gold
iron oxide
laser
TEM

File:

Download Wrubel_Joshua_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lawrence Allara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Download PhD-Dissertation_DVaughnII_Chemistry_final.pdf

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

File:

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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:

Download Thesis___Swierk_Final.pdf

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:

Download Hofmeister_Chemistry-Halil_Okur.pdf

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:

Download Dissertation_Breffke.pdf

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:

Download AndrewHess_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Lerach, Jordan Oswald

Title:

Strong-field ionization applied to sputtered neutral molecules from varied chemical environments

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

SIMS
Mass Spectrometry
Laser post ionization
depth profile
C60
secondary ion
secondary neutral mass spectrometry
laser

File:

Download Jordan_Lerach_Disseration.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas Winograd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Matthew Scott Fantle, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Jordan Cesar

Title:

Tailoring and Scaling Energetic Aluminum Clusters into Cluster Assembled Materials

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

aluminum
cluster
reactivity
matrix isolation
cavity ring down spectroscopy

File:

Download Dissertation_For_Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Special Member

Author:

Smedley, Sarah Black

Title:

Water hydrogen bonding in proton exchange and neutral polymer membranes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

hydrogen bonding
proton exchange membrane
FTIR
vibrational spectroscopy
superacid
water treatment membrane

File:

Download SSmedley_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Anthony Hickner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Special Member

Author:

Hamad, Fawzi Ghassan

Title:

Flow-induced Crystallization in Isotactic Polypropylene

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

flow-induced crystallization
quiescent crystallization
polypropylene
rheology
microscopy
differential scanning calorimetry

File:

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Committee Members:

Scott Thomas Milner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ralph H Colby, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member

Author:

Larsen, Alec Von

Title:

SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THIN FILM SEMICONDUCTING MATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Perovskite
Spectroscopy
XRD
Ultra-Fast
Pump Probe
Transient Absorption

File:

Download Alec_Larsen_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tom Mallouk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rimshaw, Adam

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF VISIBLE, NEAR-INFRARED, AND MID-INFRARED TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY ON A FEMTOSECOND TO MILLISECOND TIMESCALE AND ITS APPLICABILITY TO ORGANIC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Nanosecond Spectroscopy
Organic Photovoltaics
Organic Solar Cells

File:

Download Rimshaw__Adam_Final_Dissertation_for_Submission_to_Grad_School.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member

Author:

Stewart, Robert J

Title:

Investigation of Charge-Carrier Dynamics in Organo-halide Perovskite and Colloidal Quantum Dot Semiconductors

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

physical chemistry
spectroscopy
semiconductor
solar cell
quantum dot
organo-halide perovskite

File:

Download Robert_Stewart_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Outside Member

Author:

Sun, Du

Title:

SYNTHESIS OF COMPLEX NANOSTRUCTURES OF LAYERED METAL CHALCOGENIDES AND OTHER NANOMATERIALS USING COLLOIDAL CHEMISTRY

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanoscience
Layered Chalcogenides
Colloidal Synthesis
Molybdenum Diselenide
Germanium Selenide

File:

Download PhD-Dissertation_Du_Sun_Chemistry_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Outside Member

Author:

Zimudzi, Tawanda James

Title:

The Characterization of Thin Polymer Films Using Vibrational Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Vibrational Spectroscopy
Polymer thin fims
Reverse Osmosis membranes
Fuel cells
Nafion
Aromatic Polyamides
Physical Chemistry

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Anthony Hickner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
Seong Han Kim, Outside Member

Author:

Rumble, Christopher Allen

Title:

Solute Dynamics in Liquid Systems: Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

electron transfer
proton transfer
ionic liquids
ultrafast spectroscopy
rotational dynamics
solvation dynamics
T1 relaxation
G-quadruplexes
charge transfer
molecular rotors
fluorescence
molecular dynamics simulation

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Maroncelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
William George Noid, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Outside Member

Author:

Grieco, Christopher

Title:

RELATING NANOSCALE STRUCTURE TO ELECTRONIC FUNCTION IN ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS USING TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

organic semiconductors
time-resolved spectroscopy
optical spectroscopy
photophysics
singlet fission
block-copolymers
inorganic phosphors
triplet dynamics
polaron recombination
organic solar cells
organic solar cell materials
x-ray diffraction
triplet-triplet annihilation
ultrafast mid-infrared spectroscopy
time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy
correlated triplet pair
pentacene derivatives
transient absorption spectroscopy
crystalline films

File:

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Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member

Author:

Aplan, Melissa Paige

Title:

Conjugated Block Copolymers as Model Systems to Examine Mechanisms of Charge and Energy Transfer in Organic Materials

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

block copolymers
organic electronics
photophysics
charge transfer
organic photovoltaics
conjugated polymers

File:

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Committee Members:

Enrique Daniel Gomez, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Outside Member

Author:

Mondschein, Jared Scott

Title:

Heterogeneous Catalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction and the Hydrolysis of Ammonia Borane

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Electrocatalysis
Ammonia Borane
Water Splitting
Hydrogen

File:

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Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Outside Member

Author:

Xie, Renxuan

Title:

CONNECTING FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES OF CONJUGATED POLYMERS TO MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE IN STRETCHABLE ELECTRONICS

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Conjugated Polymers
rheology
Polymer Physics

File:

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Committee Members:

Enrique Daniel Gomez, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ralph H Colby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
Scott Thomas Milner, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Outside Member

Author:

Gao, Yue

Title:

DESIGN STABLE SOLID-ELECTROLYTE INTERPHASE FOR ANODES IN RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERIES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Rechargeable batteries
Electrochemical interface
Solid-electrolyte interphase

File:

Download Dissertation_Yue_Gao.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Pullanchery Sankara Narayanan, Saranya

Title:

PROBING INTERFACIAL WATER STRUCTURE NEXT TO LIPID MEMBRANES USING VIBRATIONAL SUM FREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy
Interfacial Water Structure
Phospholipid monolayers
Ion-Lipid Interactions

File:

Download Saranya_Pullanchery_Dissertation_2018_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S. Cremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Cremer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Bombile, Joel

Title:

Tight Binding Model of Charge Localization and Excitons in Semiconducting Polymers

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Organic electronics
Semiconducting polymers
Tight binding
Charge localization
Polaron
Exciton
Charge Transport

File:

Download Bombile-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Thomas Milner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael John Janik, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Outside Member
Michael John Janik, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Thomas Milner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Khawaji, Ibrahim Hussain

Title:

ENGINEERED THIN FILMS OF PARYLENE C AS ELECTRICAL INSULATORS FOR FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

ENGINEERED THIN FILMS
PARYLENE C
ELECTRICAL INSULATORS
FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS
low-k

File:

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Committee Members:

Osama O Awadelkarim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Outside Member

Author:

Koeplinger, Daniel Brian

Title:

The Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Nanothreads

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanothread
Benzene
Compression
Polymerization
Diamond Anvil Cell
Exfoliation
AFM

File:

Download Daniel_Koeplinger_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John V Badding, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member

Author:

Herbert, Patrick John

Title:

STRUCTURE-CORRELATED OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF MONOLAYER-PROTECTED METAL CLUSTERS STUDIED THROUGH MAGNETO-OPTICAL AND TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPIES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy
Nanomaterials
Clusters

File:

Download ThesisPJH_PostDefense.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth L. Knappenberger Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth L. Knappenberger Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Mitra, Utsab

Title:

UNDERSTANDING STRUCTURAL INFLUENCES IN GOLD MONOLAYERED-PROTECTED CLUSTERS USING MAGNETO-OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanoclusters
Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Two-dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy
Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy
Superatoms
Gold Clusters
Zeeman Effect

File:

Download Master_Thesis_Updated_07242019_3.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Doucette, Grayson S

Title:

COARSE TO FINE: TUNING MOLECULAR PACKING TO PINPOINT TRIPLET PAIR SEPARATION MECHANISMS AND THE ROLE OF MOLECULAR COUPLING

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Singlet Fission
High Pressure
Intermolecular Coupling
Photophysics
Pentacene
Polymorph

File:

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Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Outside Member

Author:

Henderson, Codey

Title:

The Impact of Phospholipid Bilayer Interactions on Lipid Diffuison

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Supported Lipid Bilayers
Lipid Diffusion
Lipid Diffusion Model
Bilayer-Support Interactions
Dye Aggregation
Single Particle Tracking
FRAP

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul S Cremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Cremer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward Patrick O'Brien, Jr., Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Esther Gomez, Outside Member

Author:

Ackerman, Jonathan

Title:

Controlling selectivity of platinum deposition on partially exchanged Cu2-xS-CdS nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

nanoparticle
Chalcogenide
Cation exchange
partial cation exchange
Seeded growth

File:

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Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Swartzfager, John

Title:

Investigation of the Optoelectronic Properties of Formamidinium Lead Bromide Perovskites Using Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Time-resolved spectroscopy
Formamidinium lead bromide
Lead halide perovskites
Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
Optoelectronic
Photovoltaics
Fano resonance
Transient absorption
Polaron
Electron-phonon coupling
Excited state dynamics
Charge carriers

File:

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Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member

Author:

Widstrom, Andrea Lyn

Title:

Applicability of standard kinetic parameters for describing a photothermally driven reaction

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Diels-Alder
photothermal
gold nanoparticle
solvent
kinetic
viscosity
retro Diels-Alder
dipole
activation
thermodynamic
Arrhenius

File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
William D Burgos, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kennehan, Eric Ronald

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF EXCITONIC PROPERTIES AND HOT-CARRIER COOLING IN LEAD SULFIDE QUANTUM DOTS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Spectroscopy
Transient Absorption
Quantum Dots
Lead Sulfide
Perylene Diimide
Phonon
electron-phonon
PbS
Flash photolysis
electro-optical
exciton

File:

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Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gray, Christopher

Title:

Oligomeric Ruthenium Light Absorbers and Nanostructured Lenses for Improved Harvesting of Solar Energy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

photoelectrochemical cells
water-splitting
solar energy
solar fuels
nanomaterials
oligomer
ruthenium polypyridal

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas Mallouk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhao, Tian

Title:

Single Nanostructure Nonliear Behavior of Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles Studied Using Ultrafast Correlated Light and Electron Microscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanostructure
Plasmonic
3D imaging
electronic dynamic
Ultrafast Microscopy
Super-resolution

File:

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Committee Members:

Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member
Dr. Tae-Hee Lee, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hendrickson, Alexander

Title:

Synthesis and Design of Zinc Selenide and Multi-Material Optical Fibers for High Power Mid-Infrared Applications

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Zinc Selenide
Optical Fiber
High Pressure
Chemical Vapor Deposition
Chemical Vapor Transport
Laser Annealing
Bragg Fiber
Annealing
Laser
Mid-Infrared
Fiber Laser

File:

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Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jaramillo, Roman

Title:

Thermodynamic Modeling of Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography Separations: Applications in Method Development and Analyte Identification

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

GCxGC
thermodynamic indices
retention indices
method development
gas chromatography
analytical chemistry

File:

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Committee Members:

Frank Dorman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frank Dorman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Edward Patrick O'Brien, Jr., Committee Member
Andrew David Patterson, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Maroncelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Holder, Cameron

Title:

Discovery of Materials for Renewable Energy Applications

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Energy
Nanomaterials
Characterization
Electrocatalysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Robert Rioux, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cintron Rodriguez, Nicohl

Title:

Investigation of the Optoelectronic Properties and Surface Chemistry of Cesium Lead Bromide using Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (MS)

Keywords:

Cesium Lead Bromide
Lead Halide Perovskites
TRIR
Surface Chemistry
Polarons

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Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Alexey Silakov, Committee Member
Robert John Hickey, III, Committee Member

Author:

Munson, Kyle Thomas

Title:

Investigating the Electronic and Structural Properties of Halide Perovskite Semiconductors via Time-Resolved Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

halide perovskites
polarons
time-resolved spectroscopy
charge carrier recombination
ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy
infrared spectroscopy
inorganic semiconductors
transient absorption spectroscopy
dynamic disorder

File:

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Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, 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:

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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:

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:

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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:

Li, Zehua

Title:

Nonlinear Chiroptical Responses from Plasmonic Nanostructures

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nonlinear optics
Plasmonic
Nanostructures
Chirality

File:

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Committee Members:

Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jewell, Erik

Title:

Toward understanding collective behaviors in chemically autonomous active matter systems

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

micromotors
nanomotors
micropumps
chemistry

File:

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Committee Members:

Tom Mallouk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Saladin, Marissa

Title:

Electron Transfer in Ionic Liquids: Intramolecular and Transer-to-Solvent Reactions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

electron transfer
ionic liquids
ultrafast spectroscopy

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Maroncelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yuan, Zhenghao

Title:

Generation and Detection of Resonant High Harmonic Generation in Few-Layer Molybdenum Disulfide

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (MS)

Keywords:

High Harmonic Generation
Molybdenum Disulfide
Solid State

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Committee Members:

Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member