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Author:

Rudzinski, Joseph F

Title:

Hierarchical Coarse-graining via a Generalized yvon-born-green Framework: Many-body Correlations, mappings, and Structural Accuracy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

molecular simulations
multiscale modeling
coarse-grained modeling
generalized Yvon-Born-Green
many-body correlations

File:

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Committee Members:

William George Noid, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William George Noid, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member
David D Boehr, Committee Member
Janna Kay Maranas, Committee Member
Janna Kay Maranas, Special Member

Author:

Duan, Wentao

Title:

Artificial Intelligence: Collective Behaviors of Synthetic Micromachines

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Micromotors
Micropumps
Collective Behaviors
COMSOL Simulation
Interaction
Self-assembly
Chemical Sensing

File:

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Committee Members:

Ayusman Sen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Scott Trent Feldman, Special 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

Author:

Chauhan, Pradeep Singh

Title:

Part I - Synthesis of the Tetracyclic Skeleton of the Lycopodium Alkaloid Lycopladine H part Ii - Synthesis of the Tetracyclic Core of the Apparicine Class of Indole Alkaloids via a Key Intermolecular Nitrosoalkene Conjugate Addition

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

synthesis
lycopodium
alkaloids
apparicine
nitrosoalkene
hydroformylation
indole
chlorooxime
dialdehyde
dialkene

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven M Weinreb, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott T Phillips, Committee Member
Alexander Thomas Radosevich, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Special Member

Author:

Wei, Sijie

Title:

Nucleosome structure and dynamics studied with single-molecule methods

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

nucleosome breathing
CENP-A
dinucleosome
single molecule FRET
MLE
FCS
SUMO
Sumolyation

File:

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Committee Members:

Tae Hee Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Song Tan, Committee Member

Author:

Veghte, Daniel Philip

Title:

Morphology and Optical Properties of Aerosol Particles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Aerosol
Atmospheric
Chemistry
Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy
CRD
Electron Microscopy
TEM
SEM
Mineral Dust
Organic

File:

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Committee Members:

Miriam Arak Freedman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Karl Todd Mueller, Committee Member
Jose Dolores Fuentes, Committee Member

Author:

Quarles, Kaycee Andrea

Title:

The Impact of Primary MicroRNA Structure on Recognition by the Microprocessor Complex in MicroRNA Maturation

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

RNA structure
Microprocessor
microRNA
protein binding
DGCR8
EMSA

File:

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Committee Members:

Scott A Showalter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Katsuhiko Murakami, Committee Member

Author:

Axe, Jennifer Michelle

Title:

Investigations of the dynamic amino acid networks in the alpha-subunit of tryptophan synthase

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

tryptophan synthase
NMR
CHESCA
amino acid networks

File:

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Committee Members:

David D Boehr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee 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:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Kirby, David Joseph

Title:

Assembly of Nanowire Arrays: Exploring Interparticle Interactions, Particle Orientation, and Mixed Particle Arrays

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

van der Waals
electrostatics
sedimentation
gold
nanotube
silica
vertical array
horizontal array
microwells

File:

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Committee Members:

Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

Author:

Bradley, Matthew Joseph

Title:

Developing New Synthetic Methods for Colloidal Hybrid Nanoparticles: Conversion Chemistry and Chemoselectivity

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Hybrid Nanoparticles
Conversion Chemistry
Chemoselectivity
Nanoparticle Synthesis
Heterodimers

File:

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Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tom Mallouk, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Strayer, Megan Elizabeth

Title:

Design of functional layered oxide materials through understanding structure-property relationships

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

layered oxides; metal nanoparticles; isothermal titration calori
X-ray diffraction

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas E Mallouk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member

Author:

Vargas-barbosa, Nella Marie

Title:

Insights Into Electrochemical And Photoelectrochemical Water-splitting

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

electrochemistry
iridium oxide
solar fuels
catalysis
membrane
buffer
photo-electrochemistry
heterogeneous kintetics

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas E Mallouk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Barbara Jane Garrison, Special Member

Author:

Yadav, Vinita

Title:

Self-propelled Systems For Versatile Applications

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nano-motors
Micro-pumps
Drug-delivery
Crack-repair
Enzyme cascades

File:

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Committee Members:

Ayusman Sen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

Author:

Dewey, Daniel Carroll

Title:

Kinetic Stabilization of Interfaces in Biologically Inspired Phase Systems

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

ATPS
aqueous biphasic systems
biomimetic
bioreactor
vesicle
emuslion

File:

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Committee Members:

Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
Prof Peter Butler, Committee Member

Author:

Lewis, Gregory Gerald

Title:

Plastics and diagnostic assays with selective and sensitive macroscopic responses

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

diagnostics
assay
point-of-care
analytical
polymers
depolymerization
additive manufacturing

File:

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Committee Members:

Scott T Phillips, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, 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:

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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:

Modzelewski, Tomasz

Title:

Design And Synthesis Of Polyphosphazenes:hard Tissue Scaffolding Biomaterials And Physically Crosslinked Elastomers

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Polymer
Polyphosphazene
Hard Tissue Engineering Scaffold
Fluorinated Elastomers

File:

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Committee Members:

Harry R Allcock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander Thomas Radosevich, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

Author:

Tian, Zhicheng

Title:

DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NEW PHOSPHAZENE RELATED MATERIALS, AND STUDY THE STRUCTURE PROPERTY CORRELATIONS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Polymer Chemistry
Organic Synthesis
Polyphosphazenes
Structure Property Correlations
Biomaterials
Elastomers

File:

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Committee Members:

Harry R Allcock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mike Hickner, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member

Author:

Chan, Yan Mei

Title:

Functional Regulation and Protein Structural Dynamics of Poliovirus 3c Protease

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Viruses
Poliovirus
Structural Dynamics
Functional Regulation
3C Protease
Protein NMR

File:

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Committee Members:

David D Boehr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David D Boehr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Emmanuel Hatzakis, Committee Member
Craig Eugene Cameron, Committee Member

Author:

Mcenaney, Joshua M

Title:

Colloidal Nanochemistry Applied to the Discovery and Characterization of Earth-abundant Nanoparticles as Catalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction and Co2 Photoreduction

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanosynthesis
Water Electrolysis
Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
CO2 Photoreduction
Electrocatalyst
Metal Phosphide

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
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Barbara Jane Garrison, Special Member

Author:

Aumiller, William Michael

Title:

Understanding Intracellular Organization Using Aqueous Phase Model Systems

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

aqueous phase separation
macromolecular crowding
phosphorylation
coacervate
sequential enzymes
compartmentalization

File:

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Committee Members:

Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carsten Krebs, Committee Member
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Committee Member

Author:

Nocket, Anthony Joseph

Title:

Total Synthesis of the Tetracyclic Antimalarial Alkaloid (±)-myrioneurinol

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Total Synthesis
Alkaloid
Myrioneuron
falciparum
anti-Malarial

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven M Weinreb, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander Thomas Radosevich, Committee Member
Ken S Feldman, Committee Member
Edward G Dudley, Committee Member

Author:

Bastidas, Monique

Title:

Structural and functional characterization of the transcription factor Pdx1 and its interactions with DNA and proteins

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

protein binding
NMR
biophysical
homeodomain

File:

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Committee Members:

Scott A Showalter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
David Scott Gilmour, Committee Member

Author:

Ahmed, Suzanne

Title:

The Control, Assembly, Shape-dependent and Material-dependent Studies of Ultrasonically Propelled Nano- and Micromotors

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanorod
Nanomotor
Ultrasonically Propelled Nanomotor
Acoustic Nanomotor

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas E Mallouk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Jun Huang, 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:

Kim, Juyeong

Title:

Ligand-controlled electronic properties in inorganic materials

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Ruthenium complex
hydroxypyridine
TCNQ
pi-stacking
zinc oxide
coumarin 153
metal-organic framework
electronic property

File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander Thomas Radosevich, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Shen, Kan

Title:

Molecular Depth Profiling and Chemical Imaging with Cluster ToF-SIMS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

ToF-SIMS
molecular depth profiling
chemical imaging

File:

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Committee Members:

Nicholas Winograd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Yingwei Mao, Committee Member

Author:

Haas, Kaitlin Mary

Title:

Driving thermally-activated chemical reactions with molecular-scale control using the photothermal effect of gold nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

gold nanoparticles
photothermal effect
plasmon

File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, 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:

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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:

Dilauro, Anthony Michael

Title:

Development of Poly(phthalaldehydes) as CDr Polymers: Imparting Amplified Responses to Stimuli-Responsive Materials

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

polymers
stimuli-responsive materials
depolymerization
poly(phthalaldehyde)
microcapsules
additive manufacturing

File:

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Committee Members:

Scott T Phillips, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander Thomas Radosevich, Committee Member
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
Kyle Jeffrey Magnuson Bishop, Special Member

Author:

Gorka, Michael J

Title:

Electron Extraction from the A1a and A1b sites of Photosystem I

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Photosystem I
Dihydrogen
Quinone

File:

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Committee Members:

John H Golbeck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John H Golbeck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
David D Boehr, Committee Member
Donald Ashley Bryant, Committee Member
Wayne Roger Curtis, Special Member

Author:

Olah, Michael G

Title:

Development of Poly(benzyl ethers) that Undergo Selective, Continuous Depolymerization for Use in Responsive Materials

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

polymers
depolymerization
responsive materials
self-immolative polymers
photoresist

File:

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Committee Members:

Scott T Phillips, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
Alexander Thomas Radosevich, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member

Author:

Tarolli, Jay Gage

Title:

Improving the Image Quality of Time-of-flight Secondary Ion Mass spectrometry Images

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Image Fusion
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Data Analysis
Data Fusion

File:

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Committee Members:

Nicholas Winograd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Sengupta, Ritobroto

Title:

Part I: Michael Additions To Nitrosoalkenes: (a) Stereochemical Investigations Of Conjugate Additions Of Carbon- And Heteronucleophiles To Ring-substituted Nitrosocyclohexenes; (b) A One-pot Umpolung Method For Preparation Of Α-aryl Nitriles From Α-chloroaldoximes Via Organocuprate Addition To Transient Nitrosoalkenes. part Ii: An Approach To A Total Synthesis Of Tronocarpine.

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

nitrosoalkene
conjugate addition
tronocarpine
arylation
aryl nitrile
total synthesis

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven M Weinreb, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pshemak Maslak, Committee Member
Raymond Lee Funk, Committee Member
Kyle Jeffrey Magnuson Bishop, Special Member

Author:

Sun, Sha

Title:

OLIGOPEPTIDE DERIVATIZED [Ru(bpy)3]2+ COMPLEXES AS SCAFFOLDS FOR ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC PROCESSES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

[Ru(bpy)3]2+
Artificial Photosynthesis

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Beth Williams, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tom Mallouk, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Committee Member

Author:

Moore, Justin Edward

Title:

Describing the Electronic Structure of Molecules on Metal Surfaces

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Electronic Structure
DFT
SERS
LC Functionals
Orbital Renormalization
QMR

File:

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Committee Members:

Lasse Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lasse Jensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Gerald Knizia, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Xinran

Title:

Investigation of the nucleotide selection mechanism of poliovirus Rna-dependent Rna polymerase

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Poliovirus
nucleotide
selection
fidelity
polymerase

File:

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Committee Members:

David D Boehr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Craig Eugene Cameron, Committee Member
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Committee Member

Author:

Onderko, Elizabeth Lois

Title:

Selenocysteine-ligated Cytochrome P450 Intermediates

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

cytochrome P450
selenocysteine
compound I
compound II
peroxynitrite

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Thomas Green, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Thomas Green, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carsten Krebs, Committee Member
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Committee Member

Author:

Lafemina, Nikki Hunter

Title:

Investigations of single-ion conducting polymer electrolytes by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

single-ion conducting polymer electrolytes
ionomers
diffusion
NMR
lithium diffusion
batteries
conductivity

File:

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Committee Members:

Karl Todd Mueller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David D Boehr, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Professor Michael A Hickner, Committee Member