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Author:

Romero, Hugo E

Title:

EFFECTS OF GAS INTERACTIONS ON THE TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

carbon nanotubes
transport properties
nanoscale materials
thermoelectric power
electronic transport
scattering mechanisms

File:

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Committee Members:

Peter C Eklund, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

Author:

Kostov, Milen Kalushkov

Title:

Adsorption of gases in carbon nanotubes

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

carbon nanotubes
adsorption
hydrogen
phase transitions

File:

Download phd_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Milton Walter Cole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Peter C Eklund, Committee Member
Paul E Sokol, Committee Member
Sharon Hammes Schiffer, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Peihong

Title:

THEORY OF ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS: NOVEL GROUP-IV MATERIALS AND REAL SPACE METHODS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

multigrid
finite element methods
Electronic structure
real-space methods
carbon nanotubes
ab initio
band structure
semiconductor
planewave
pseudopotential

File:

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Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Gungor, Sila

Title:

Electric-field-induced Alignment of Carbon Nanofillers in Multifunctional Glass-epoxy Composites

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

composites
carbon nanotubes
carbon black
electrical anisotropy
damage detection
glass fiber reinforced plastics

File:

Download Gungor_Sila_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles E Bakis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Kevin L Koudela, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

Author:

Sigamani, Nirmal Shankar

Title:

Effect of carbon nanofillers on the microstructure and electromechanical properties of electroactive polymers

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Graphene Oxide
reduced graphene
carbon nanotubes
electroactive strain
electromechanical
hybrid SWNT-GO
chemical modification

File:

Download Dissertation_Post-defense_submitted_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Zoubeida Ounaies, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zoubeida Ounaies, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member

Author:

Kopp, Reed Alan

Title:

Multi-fidelity Modeling of Interfacial Micromechanics for Off-Aligned Polymer/Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

nanocomposites
damping
passive vibration control
carbon nanotubes
interfacial slip
stick-slip
off-aligned

File:

Download Kopp_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C. Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Member
George A. Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Haibat, Jatin Pramod

Title:

PROCESSING OF MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES AS MAGNETIC ADDITIVES FOR POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

carbon nanotubes
manufacturing
nanocomposites
magnetic assembly

File:

Download JatinHaibat-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member

Author:

Dasgupta, Archi

Title:

SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND ADSORPTION APPLICATIONS OF 1-, 2-, AND 3-DIMENSIONAL sp2-HYBRIDIZED NANOCARBONS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

carbon nanotubes
graphene
graphitic nanoribbons
graphene based adsorbents
3-D networks
mechanical properties
adsorption properties
gas and liquid phase adsorption

File:

Download Archi_Dasgupta_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Outside Member

Author:

Prakash, Keerti

Title:

MODELING FOR POLYMER/ CARBON NANOTUBE NANOCOMPOSITE TO ESTIMATE STRUCTURAL DAMPING IN A ROTOCRAFT BLADE

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

nanocomposite
damping
carbon nanotubes
interfacial slip
stick-slip
randomly oriented
rotor blade
rotorcraft

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Keerti_Prakash.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Jeffrey Jason

Title:

FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGH DAMPING CARBON FIBER COMPOSITES WITH CARBON NANOTUBE INTERLAYERS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

carbon epoxy composite
carbon nanotubes
stick-slip
damping
fabrication

File:

Download JeffKim_MS_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Braga Nogueira Branco, Ricardo

Title:

Scalable fabrication and characterization of magnetically aligned and diazotized CNT-epoxy composites for interlaminar reinforcement of aerospace composites

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aerospace
materials
composites
carbon nanotubes
polymer nanocomposites
nanocomposites
nanotubes
functionalized
covalent functionalization
diazotization
three-point bending
fracture toughness
magnetic assembly

File:

Download RicardoBranco_MSThesis_SU21.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member