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Author:

Latham, Andrew Howard

Title:

MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Microfluidics
Magnetism
Nanoparticles
Iron Oxide
TEM

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Elizabeth Williams, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member

Author:

Golightly, Justin Samuel

Title:

Formation and Characterization of Nanoparticles Via Laser Ablation in Solution

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Laser Ablation
Nanoparticles
irradiation
metal nanoparticles
synthesis

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Member
Henry Foley, Committee Member

Author:

Kang, Shaoying

Title:

Advanced Magneto-optical Materials and Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Garnet
Faraday Effect
Ultrafast switch
Magneto-optical
Nanoparticles
Iron Borate

File:

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Committee Members:

Shizhuo Yin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member

Author:

Beveridge, Jacob Stanley

Title:

Differential Magnetic Catch and Release: Separation, Purification, and Characterization of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Particles Assemblies

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Magnetic Nanoparticles
Differential Magnetic Catch and Release
Hybrid Nanocrystals
Nanoparticles

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Beth Williams, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Committee Member

Author:

Sines, Ian Thomas

Title:

Chemical synthesis and modification of target phases of chalcogenide nanomaterials

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanoparticles
Conversion chemistry
Chalcogenides
Non-equilibrium phases
Superconductors
Single crystals

File:

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Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Sridhar Komarneni, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member

Author:

Tabakovic, Amra

Title:

Investigation of Laundering and Dispersion Approaches for Silica and Calcium Phosphosilicate Nanoparticles Synthesized in Reverse Micelles

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Nanoparticles
nanoparticle laundering
nanotechnology
biomedicine
drug delivery

File:

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Committee Members:

James Hansell Adair, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Member
Gail Lynn Matters, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member

Author:

Popczun, Eric John

Title:

Nanostructured Earth-abundant Materials as Catalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanoscience
Metal phosphide
Hydrogen evolution
Nanoparticles
Electrochemistry
Electrocatalysis
Earth-abundant
Catalysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

Author:

Chulhai, Dhabih Vishaal

Title:

INTERPRETING THE SPECTRAL SIGNATURES OF SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Spectroscopy
Surface Enhancement
Raman
SERS
Field Gradients
Plasmon
Nanoparticles
TERS
DFT
Subsystem DFT
Frozen Density Embedding
TDDFT
Density Functional Theory

File:

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Committee Members:

Lasse Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lasse Jensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
William George Noid, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Outside Member

Author:

Bloom, Anna Nichole

Title:

Single-Cell Imaging of Exogenous Compounds Using Cluster Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Single Cell Imaging
Chemical Imaging
Nanoparticles
Pharmaceutical Compounds

File:

Download Bloom_DissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas Winograd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member
Joseph M Bollinger Jr., Committee Member
Esther Winter Gomez, Outside Member

Author:

Kang, You Jung

Title:

MIMICKING AND TARGETING BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES USING GIANT PROTEOLIPOSOME AND POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Giant Unilamellar Vesicles
Hydrogel
Nanoparticles
Nanoprecipitation
Electroformation

File:

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Committee Members:

William O Hancock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sheereen Majd, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
James R Connor, Outside Member
Sheereen Majd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Johnson, Robert J

Title:

The Efficacy of Fe3O4 Nanoparticles as a Robust and Effective Alternative to Gold Nanoparticles as Photothermal Agents to Drive High-Barrier Reactions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Magnetite Nanoparticles
Iron oxide nanoparticles
Gold nanoparticles
Photothermal
Light to heat
Nanoparticles

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Joshi, Prachi

Title:

Kinetics and mechanisms of Fe2+-catalyzed recrystallization of iron oxides

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Iron oxides
Iron chemistry
Geochemistry
Mineral processes
Nanoparticles

File:

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Committee Members:

Christopher Aaron Gorski, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Aaron Gorski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew S Fantle, Committee Member
William D Burgos, Committee Member
Peter J Heaney, Outside Member

Author:

Aragon Sanabria, Virginia

Title:

CELL-CELL INTERACTIONS IN THE TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT: OVERCOMING THE ENDOTHELIAL BARRIER FOR TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY STRATEGIES

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

Endothelial cells
Gap formation
Tumor Microenvironment
Nanoparticles
Immune-mediated therapy
Metastasis
Cell-cell interactions

File:

Download VAS_-_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Cheng Dong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheng Dong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Esther Winter Gomez, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Andrea M. Mastro, Outside Member

Author:

Spencer, Mychal

Title:

Tailorable Manufacturing of Polymer Nanocomposites using Oscillating Magnetic Fields

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Nanocomposites
Nanoparticles
Magnetic assembly
Oscillating field
Polymer-matrix composites

File:

Download MSpencer_Dissertation_PSU-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Outside Member

Author:

Fallahianbijan, Fatemeh

Title:

EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF VIRUS FILTRATION MEMBRANES

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Virus Filtration
Membrane Fouling
Membrane Characterization
Viral Clearance
Nanoparticles

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Zydney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Manish Kumar, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Shi Ho

Title:

Super-resolution Optical Lithography with DNA

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Super-resolution optical mircoscopy
DNA hairpin kinetics
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer
Nanoparticles
Nucleic acid structure
Fluorophores

File:

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Committee Members:

Tae-Hee Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tae-Hee Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Xin Zhang, Committee Member
Seong Han Kim, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alden, Nicholas

Title:

Nanoparticle-Enhanced Drug Delivery: Delivering Small Nucleic Acid Therapeutics to Combat Disease at the Gene Expression Level

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Plasmonic Nanoparticles
Near-Infrared
Diels-Alder
Synthetic miRNA Mimics
Head & Neck Cancer
Lung Cancer
Poly-Beta(Amino Esters)
Nanoparticles
Drug Delivery Systems

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Committee Members:

Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Adam Glick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Pak Kin Wong, Major Field Member
Yong Wang, Major Field Member
Scott Medina, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Rhoden, Zachary

Title:

Surface Chemistry Characterization and Control of the Electronic Structure of Gold Nanosystems

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Magnetic spectroscopy
Gold nanoparticles
Nanoparticles
Electronic structure
Ligands
Surface chemistry
Thermogravimetric analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Lear, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Adair, Outside Unit & Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Alexey Silakov, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mc Cormick, Connor

Title:

Discovery and Design of Heterostructured and Solid Solutioned Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Nanoparticles
High Entropy
Sulfide
Phosphide
heterostructure
Cation exchange

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Major Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Dominguez Rubio, Leonardo

Title:

Acoustic and magnetic control of synthetic and biological microswimmers

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Active matter
Acoustics
Ferrofluids
Microfluidics
Nanoparticles

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Committee Members:

William Hancock, Major Field Member
Justin Brown, Major Field Member
Pak Kin Wong, Major Field Member
Igor Aronson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Taylor, Neil

Title:

Sterile Filtration Of Large Particle Therapeutics - New Insights Using A Live Attenuated Viral Vaccine And A Model Nanoparticle Suspension

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Sterile Filtration
Live Attenuated Viral Vaccine
Nanoparticles
Pore Size Distribution
Fouling
Prefiltration

File:

Download Neil_Taylor-thesis-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Hancock, Outside Unit & Field Member
Themis Matsoukas, Major Field Member
Stephanie Velegol, Major Field Member
Seong H. Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kauffman, Joshua

Title:

Understanding and Controlling Motion at Small Scales

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Active Matter
Microfluidics
Atomic Force Microscopy
Enzymes
Nanoparticles
Colloids
Nanomotors
Micropumps

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_JK2.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Mallouk, Major Field Member
Igor Aronson, Major Field Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ayusman Sen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Steimle, Benjamin Colby

Title:

Design and Synthesis of Inorganic Nanoparticle Heterostructures Using Cation Exchange Transformations

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Colloidal synthesis
Nanoparticles
Cation exchange
Solid-state interfaces
Inorganic materials

File:

Download Benjamin_Steimle_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member