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Fall 2023

Tran, Hanh-Thuc T

The human immune system is a network that is crucial to fight against infections and foreign pathogens. It is divided into innate system, which is the first line of defense, and adaptive immune system, which is more specific. The specificity and long-lasting nature of the adaptive immune system...

Fall 2023

Li, Guojie

My PhD thesis primarily focuses on exploring chiroptical events and signatures of chiral transition metal complexes when they are under (near) resonance conditions. To achieve this goal, multiple chiroptical spectroscopic techniques were utilized, aided by theoretical calculations. These...

Fall 2023

Zohora, Fatema Tuz

Studies related to miRNAs and their ability to alter protein expression have gained much attention in recent years. miRNAs are short single stranded non-coding RNAs (~20 nts) that function in RNA silencing and post-transcriptional modification of gene expression. These short non-coding RNAs...

Fall 2023

Loebel Roson, Max

Biomass burning, from wildfires to cooking stoves, is a major contributor to atmospheric pollution on a global scale, affecting the quality of the air we breathe. Emissions from biomass burning are both health and climate affecting, and vary considerably in composition depending on how the fuel...

Fall 2023

Moazeni, Amin

This PhD thesis shows the application of different spectroscopic and theoretical tools to probe the extent and possible interaction between various Lewis acids (halogen bond donor) and Lewis bases (halogen bond acceptors). Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) that is the chiral version of...

Spring 2023

Woodard, Jasper C.

Lithium ion batteries have become a ubiquitous technology for consumer electronics and electric vehicles. Alloying anodes, such as silicon and tin, offer large increases in volumetric energy density compared to conventional graphite anodes. However, the alloying mechanism is accompanied by an...

Spring 2023

Qin, Rui

Glycosylation is the enzymatic modification of biomacromolecules (proteins, etc.) with carbohydrates known as glycans. Naturally occurring in all organisms from viruses to animals, glycans have multifaceted functions in all aspects of biology. Aberrant glycosylation is often observed in diseases...

Fall 2023

King, Nathanael

In this thesis, the non-covalent interactions of asphaltene model compounds are explored computationally using a combination of semi-empirical methods and density functional theory. New methods and workflows are developed with which to make more accurate predictions for reduced computational...

Spring 2024

Tuai, Madeline J.

This thesis focuses on the varied applications of core-shell structured stimuli- responsive polymer materials and their applications in water treatment. The relevant background and introduction to stimuli-responsive polymers, core-shell particles and morphologies, and membrane separations systems...

Spring 2024

Martinez Perez, Octavio

The development of artificial photosynthetic systems is a promising strategy to meet future energy demands of our society and to reverse the impact of anthropogenic CO2 in the environment. Energy conversion devices such as photoelectrochemical cells are one key component in the transition to a...