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Dissertations from 2024 2024

NEW ELECTROCHEMICAL PLATFORMS FOR THE DETECTION OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE BIOMARKERS, Omair Adil

SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL PERFLUORINATED ION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES AGAINST HYDROGEN PEROXIDE DEGRADATION IN ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES, Elizabeth Waleade Salako

Characterization and Biochemical Study of Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting in Human and Viral mRNAs, Xia Zhou

Dissertations from 2023 2023

Density functional theory and kinetic study of catalytic methane conversion and ammonia decomposition, Domoina Holiharimanana

COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES ON THE EXCITONIC ENERGY SPLITTING IN OLIGOACENE MOLECULAR SOLID, Thomas Testoff

Dissertations from 2022 2022

DEVICE FABRICATION USING POLYMER LITHOGRAPHY EDITOR, NATHALIE BECERRA MORA

THERMODYNAMIC STUDIES OF GAS PHASE EQUILIBRIA AND ANALYTE GAS-PHASE BASICITIES IN MALDI-MS, Lee Elliott

MODULATION AND SECONDARY BOND ASSISTED FORMATION OF COVALENT ORGANIC FRAMEWORK, Lihong Gao

Photoinduced Charge Carrier Generation and Ground-state Charge Transport in Metal-Organic Frameworks For Energy Conversion, Xinlin Li

UNDERSTANDING ELECTROCATALYTIC CO2 REDUCTION AND H2O OXIDATION ON TRANSITION METAL CATALYSTS FROM DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDY, Zaheer Masood

SYNTHESIS OF PERFLUOROPOLYMERS WITH THE CONJUGATE ACID OF 2,3,5,6-TETRAFLUOROANILINE AS A PROTON-EXCHANGE GROUP AND ALKALINE STABILITY OF ORGANIC CATIONS FOR FUEL CELL APPLICATIONS, Weifan Sang

Developing Novel Ion Exchange Membranes for Renewable Energy Devices, Matthew Adam Thompson

Dissertations from 2021 2021

DNA INTERFACES FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION OF NEURODEGENERATIVE REPEAT SEQUENCES, Narges Asefifeyzabadi

New Design Strategies for the Preparation and Linking of Cyclopenta-Fused Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Yachu Du

ROUTES TO ANTHRADITHIOPHENE POLYMERS, BENZODITHIOPHENE FUSED POLYAROMATIC HYDROCARBONS AND SEQUENCE SELECTIVE GROWTH OF CONDUCTING POLYMERS, WASEEM Akhtar HUSSAIN

FUNCTIONALIZED POLY(P-XYLYLENE)S AND CYCLOPENTA-ANNULATED POLYAROMATIC HYDROCARBON MATERIALS, Ain Uddin

A DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDY ON THE ETHANOL OXIDATION REACTION OVER IRIDIUM-BASED CATALYSTS, Ruitao Wu

PHOTOPHYSICS OF CHROMOPHORE ASSEMBLIES IN POROUS FRAMEWORKS, Jierui Yu

Dissertations from 2020 2020

Chemical Tools for Potential Therapeutic Applications of CRISPR Systems, Eman ageely

Rational Fabrication of Molybdenum Disulfide and Metal-doped Molybdenum Disulfide Thin Films via Electrodeposition Method for Energy Storage, Catalysis, and Biosensor Applications, Hannah Giang

ENZYME ACTIVE SITE DYNAMICS AND SUBSTRATE ORIENTATION PROBED VIA STRONG ANHARMONIC COUPLING IN AN ARYL-AZIDE VIBRATIONAL LABEL USING 2D IR SPECTROSCOPY, Tayler DeLanie Hill

Using Infrared Spectroscopy to Uncover Structure in Biomolecular Assemblies Related to Disease: Applications to Nucleic Acid and Peptide Oligomers and Aggregates, David Andrew Price

Dissertations from 2019 2019

DFT STUDIES OF SMALL ORGANIC MOLECULES FOR APPLICATIONS IN MALDI MASS SPECTROMETRY AND SOLAR CELLS, Chelsea Nicole Gemeinhardt

NEW DESIGN CONCEPTS TOWARDS MOLECULAR BOWLS, HYPERVALENT IODINE BASED MATERIALS, AND ENERGY STORAGE MATERIALS, Gajanan C. Kulkarni

Detection of Small Molecule Analytes with Biosensors based on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, Madhavi L. Pali

DEVELOPING WAX-ON-PLASTIC PLATFORMS FOR BIOANALYTICAL AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS, Ahmad Zaman Qamar

Structural studies of Human Caprin Protein, Yuhong Wu

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDIES ON THE STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION AND CATALYTIC REACTIVITY OF MOLYBDENUM-BASED CATALYSTS FOR METHANE CONVERSION, Tianyu Zhang

Dissertations from 2018 2018

GUIDE RNA MODIFICATION AND STRUCTURE-FUNCTION OF CRISPR-CAS9, ZACHARY KARTJE

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDIES ON THE STRUCTURE AND CATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF METAL OXIDES, Miru Tang

PART I CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF A DIMERIZATION DOMAIN OF DROSOPHILA CAPRIN. PART II CHARACTERIZATION OF TWO CAS13B CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS FROM PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS, Jiang Zhu

Dissertations from 2017 2017

SYNTHESIS OF CONJUGATED SMALL MOLECULES AND POLYMERS BY A PALLADIUM CATALYZED CYCLOPENTANNULATION STRATEGY – TOWARDS NEW ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS, Sambasiva Reddy Bheemireddy

REACTIONS AND PROCESSES AT CELL-MIMICKING MEMBRANE SURFACES, Julia Constanza Reyes-Cuellar

Dissertations from 2016 2016

MICROFLUIDIC DYNAMIC ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING COUPLED TO MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION/IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY, Srikanth Akinapalli

DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOCOMPOSITES TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS, Mallika Dasari

MODIFICATION OF XANTHENE AND SILICON ANALOGUES OF XANTHENE FLUOROPHORES FOR CHEMICAL PROBES DEVELOPMENT, Chuangjun Liu

DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW CHIRAL MONOLITHIC CAPILLARY COLUMN AND A FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF A SELECTIVE OFF-ON PET SENSOR FOR THE DETECTION OF ZINC IONS, Xiaoli Wang

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDIES OF PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRON EXCITATION AND TRANSFER OF ORGANIC DYES FOR PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY, SOLAR CELLS, AND FLUORESCENCE SENSOR APPLICATIONS, Krishanthi Chandima Weerasinghe

SYNTHESIS OF PERFLUOROHETEROAROMATIC POLYMERS FOR ION-CONDUCTING MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS VIA FREE RADICAL-BASED REACTIONS AND SYNTHESIS OF DI-CATIONIC IONIC LIQUIDS AS EFFICIENT SO2 ABSORBENTS, Shaoyi Xu

Acenaphthylene Based CP-PAH Materials for Organic Semiconductors, Bingxin Yuan

Dissertations from 2015 2015

Synthesis and Characterization of Siloles, Silole-Containing Polymers and Photoswitchable Polymer Brush, Milind Dhaniram Bisen

INVESTIGATIONS OF HYPERVALENT IODINE COMPOUNDS IN ORGANIC TRANSFORMATIONS, Ras Kumari Gurung

Investigation of Primary Ion Formation Mechanisms in UV-MALDI-MS Using Excited State Dynamics of Common MALDI Matrices, Kristopher Michael Kirmess

DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION / IONIZATION (MALDI) BASED PEPTIDE QUANTITATION APPROACH, Kandalama KD Priyasantha

STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF F-BOX-ONLY PROTEIN FBXO7 AND ITS INTERACTIONS WITH PROTEASOME INHIBITOR PI31, Jinsai Shang

NMR/MRI SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT BY REVERSIBLE EXCHANGE (SABRE) AND HETEROGENEOUS SABRE (HET-SABRE), Fan Shi

Towards Combined Computational and Experimental Studies on Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles, Pamela Cabalu Ubaldo

STRUCTURAL STUDY OF HUMAN CATENIN ΒETA-LIKE PROTEIN 1 AND DOUBLE RNA PSEUDOKNOTS IN -1 RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING, Guan Wang

Synthesis of Highly Ordered Polymer Nanostructures Based on Polyphenylene Vinylenes (PPVs), Xinju Zhu

Dissertations from 2014 2014

INVESTIGATING PROTEIN - BILAYER COMPLEXES: A STUDY OF LIGAND - RECEPTOR INTERACTIONS AT MODEL MEMBRANE SURFACE BY USING ELECTRONIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY AND FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER., Navneet Dogra

Development of Amine Containing Polymer Modified MALDI Targets for Complex Peptide and Protein Mixture Fractionation Prior to MALDI Mass Spectrometry Analysis, Stephanie Eastwood

DEVELOPMENT OF IONIC POLYMER NANOBRUSHES WITH APPLICATION IN MALDI-MS, Bojan Mitrovic

Fundamental studies and applications for the development of novel MRI contrast agents: Hyperpolarized xenon-129 and superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles, Laura L. Walkup

DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW SCREENING AND DETECTION METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING PROTEIN-SMALL MOLECULE INTERACTIONS, Lin Wang

Applications and Advancements of Dynamic Isoelectric Focusing, Shannon Courtney Wilson

Crystallographic and Modeling Studies Suggest that the SKICH Domains from Different Protein Families Share a Common Ig-like Fold but harbor substantial Structural Variations, Yang Yang

Dissertations from 2013 2013

XANTHENE AND SILICON ANALOGS OF XANTHENE FLUOROPHORES AS CHEMICAL SENSORS FOR pH AND HYPOCHLOROUS ACID, Quinn Adams Best

NOVEL EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES AND THEORETICAL MODELS FOR IMPROVING SENSITIVITY AND INFORMATION CONTENT OF NMR AND MRI SPECTROSCOPY, Ping He

APPLICATION OF TRACK ETCHED GLASS MEMBRANES FOR SUBMICRON FABRICATION, LITHOGRAPHY AND ERROR RECTIFICATION, Pradeep Ramiah Rajasekaran

Dissertations from 2012 2012

SPECIATION STUDIES FOR BIOGENIC VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AND SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL GENERATED BY OZONOLYSIS OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND MIXTURES, Hardik Surendra Amin

Development of New Computational Approaches to Predict the UV-Vis Behavior of Charge Transfer Organic Dyes and Application to Novel Silole Containing Dyes, George Hudson

APPLICATIONS OF DYNAMIC ISOELECTRIC/ANISOTROPY BINDING LIGAND ASSAY FOR PROTEOMIC RESEARCH, Hanna Elizabeth Pueblo

SYNTHESIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF SILICON ANALOG OF FLUORESCEIN FLUOROPHORES AND ESTERIFICATION CATALYSTS, Narsimha Sattenapally

An Investigation of Electrostatic Interactions Between Organically Functionalized Silica Particles, Surfaces, and Metal Ions, Sarah M. Stahl

Dissertations from 2011 2011

USING CONJUGATED POLYMERS AS BIOLOGICAL SENSOR BASED ON FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER, Xuelian Li

SYNTHESES AND ESTROGENICITY STUDY OF DIETHYLSTILBESTROL AND BISPHENOL-A ANALOGS AS POTENTIAL REPLACEMENT FOR BISPHENOL-A AND INVESTIGATION ON NOVEL REACTIONS INDUCED BY IODANE/QUATERNARY AMMONIUM HALIDES, Hima Potturi

DEVELOPMENT AND OPTMIZATION OF POLYELECTROLYTE POLYMER BRUSHES FOR THE FRACTIONATION OF PEPTIDE AND PROTEIN MIXTURES PRIOR TO MALDI MASS SPECTROMETRY ANALYSIS, Ven Ney Wong

Dissertations from 2010 2010

SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF NUCLEAR SPINS POLARIZED VIA SPIN EXCHANGE OPTICAL PUMPING AND DYNAMIC COUPLING IN CRYPTOPHANE HOST-GUEST COMPLEXES, Panayiotis Nikolaou

MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION/IONIZATION (MALDI) TARGET MODIFICATION FOR ENHANCED PROTEOMICS ANALYSIS AND PLASMA POLYMER CHARACTERIZATION BY MALDI MASS SPECTROMETRY, LIJUAN PENG

Using High-Powered, Frequency-Narrowed Lasers For Rb/129Xe and Cs/129Xe Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping To Achieve Improved Production of Highly Spin-Polarized Xenon For Use In Magnetic Resonance Applications, Nicholas Whiting

Dissertations from 2009 2009

FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDIES OF REACTIVITIES OF HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSTS DETERMINED BY STRUCTURE AND SUBSTRATE, Lei Cheng

EXPANDING APPLICATIONS OF IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLES BY SURFACE FUCNTIONALIZATION: FROM MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING TO NANO-CATALYSIS, Chuansong Duanmu

DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF ON-PROBE AFFINTY CAPTURE (OPAC) MALDI MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR THE FRACTIONATION AND ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX PROTEIN MIXTURES, Ganga Sripali Fernando

Dissertations from 2008 2008

'Amplifying' the NMR signatures of host-guest interactions and molecular structure using liquid-crystalline matrices and polarization enhancement of nuclear spins, Kathleen Elizabeth Chaffee

TARGET MODIFICATION FOR ENHANCED PERFORMANCE MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION (MALDI) MASS SPECTROMETRY, Mohamed Zaneer Segu Mohideen