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Spring 2022

Fan, Jiaxin

Continuous health monitoring and integrated diagnostic devices are revolutionizing the modern healthcare system. Biosensors serve as an essential tool in detecting and monitoring a wide range of medical conditions from diabetes to cancer for precision healthcare. The global biosensor market value...

Fall 2022

Mostafa, Khaled

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a process of joining materials to make parts from 3D model data by successive layer by layer material addition. AM has triggered a paradigm shift towards parts and assemblies design methodologies, materials development and utilization, and additional part...

Spring 2022

Pouplard, Alban

This thesis research concerns controlling viscous fingering instability when a less-viscous fluid pushes another more-viscous one in a porous medium. This instability is called the Saffman-Taylor instability and has been extensively studied, primarily for simple Newtonian fluids. The resultant of...

Spring 2022

Brown, Douglas Wilson

Gene therapy has potential to become the Holy Grail of modern medicine, however, its clinical success has been hindered due to the lack of a safe and effective nucleic acid delivery platform. The recent success of non-viral RNA delivery platforms has revitalized the field and spurred great...

Spring 2022

Beier, Jessie L.

This study of Pedagogy at the End of the World investigates the “end of the world” scenarios that now characterize education and its reasons in Anthropocene times. Emerging through an interrogation of the apocalypse habits and anthropo-scenic views through which educational futurity is most often...

Spring 2022

Habib, Karim Sayed Abouelala

Human error is a leading cause of collisions on highways. Thus, if the aim is to reduce collision rates and keep drivers safe, it is necessary to investigate the factors that influence human mistakes and develop mitigation strategies to prevent these errors from occurring. One crucial approach to...

Spring 2022

Liu, Zhe

The quantum-classical Liouville equation (QCLE) provides a foundation for simulating the dynamics of quantum systems coupled to classical environments. Many processes including proton-transfer reactions, electron-transfer reactions, and heat transport in molecular junctions, for example, take...

Spring 2022

Watson, Ian C.

The work in this Thesis outlines the use of N-heterocyclic olefins (NHOs) as organocatalysts, as supporting ligands in palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling, and the development of anionic NHOs as ligands for main group element and transition metal centers. N-Heterocyclic olefin-hydridodiborane...

Spring 2022

Rahman, Md Wazedur

In recent years it has been established that electrons become strongly spin polarized when transmitted through chiral compounds and their polarization is dependent on the chirality of the medium. This effect is known as chirality induced spin selectivity or CISS. CISS could be used to realize...

Spring 2022

Balasubramanian, Gopika

Animals can use asocial cues from the environment or information obtained from other individuals, called social information to make decisions. Further these different sources of information can be simultaneously available. How do animals evaluate and prioritize asocial and social information...