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Author:

Gunaratne, K. Don Dasitha

Title:

Photoelectron Imaging Spectroscopic Investigations of Transition Metal Silicides and Oxides

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Photoelectron spectroscopy
Electron Imaging
Photoelectron Angular Distribution
Transition metal
Silicon
Zinc Oxide

File:

Download Thesis_-_Don_Gunaratne.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member

Author:

Coppock, Matthew Bradford

Title:

Self-complementary Heterofunctional and Chiral Artificial Oligopeptides Substituted with Metal Binding Ligands

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

artificial oligopeptide
ligandoside
self-assembly
PNA

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Penn_State_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Elizabeth Williams, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Committee Member
Alexander Thomas Radosevich, Committee Member

Author:

Motl, Nathan Edward

Title:

Synthesis and Applications of Gold and Gold-copper Alloy Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

colloidal hybrid nanoparticles
nanoparticle heterodimers
chemical transformations
AuCu
Au
Cu2S
plasmon
alloy nanoparticle
composition tunable

File:

Download Nathan_Motls_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Nourhani, Amir

Title:

Dynamics of Electrocatalytic Nanomotors and Powered Random Walkers

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

nanomotor
nanorotor
random walker
electrocatalytic
effective diffusion

File:

Download Amir-final-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Borhan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Borhan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Spiro Vrentas, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Chia, Cheng Ing

Title:

Geometrically constrained nanoscale materials

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

DFT
graphene
topological frustration
nanoribbon

File:

Download CIChia-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Meenakshi

Title:

Quantum transport in superconducting, ferromagnetic and normal nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

superconductivity
transport
confined geometry
nanowires
anti-proximity effect
proximity effect
ferromagnetic nanowires

File:

Download MS_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Moses Hung Wai Chan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Puls, Conor P

Title:

Electronic Band Structure Effects in Monolayer, Bilayer, and Hybrid Graphene Structures

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

graphene
bilayer
hybrid
band gap engineering
impurity scattering
Ca3Ru2O7

File:

Download ConorPuls-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Ying Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Larrabee, Thomas James

Title:

A Quantified Dosing ALD Reactor with In-situ Diagnostics for Surface Chemistry Studies

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

atomic layer deposition
quartz crystal microbalance
quadrupole mass spectrometer
in-situ diagnostics
adsorption
reactivity

File:

Download Larrabee_to_upload.pdf

Committee Members:

David Lawrence Allara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
Roman Engel Herbert, Committee Member