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Spring 2022

Abou-Ghanem, Maya

Dust is one of the leading contributors to particulate matter (PM) in the atmosphere and can be natural (i.e., mineral dust) and anthropogenic (i.e., road and industrial dust) in origin. Natural and anthropogenic dusts provide a reactive surface for the chemical transformation of pollutant gases,...

Spring 2022

Wang, Haolu

Studies of amino acids are essential because they are one of the building blocks of larger biomolecules, and it is crucial for us to understand how they interact with each other to fulfill all these various biological functions in our daily life. One interesting and noticeable fact from previous...

Spring 2022

Klein, Brittney A.

Enhancing our understanding of the local structure and dynamics for different components within a biological system is key to unraveling their overall function. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has become an unparalleled technique for exploring both the structure and dynamics within...

Spring 2022

Ming Lyu

Wildfire smoke emissions contain substantial amounts of light-absorbing aerosols that can affect the radiation and cloud processes, resulting in climate impacts on regional and even global scales. The radiative impact of these light-absorbing aerosols is largely contributed by brown carbon (BrC),...

Spring 2022

Karmakar, Abhoy

The work presented in this thesis describes the synthesis, structure, and optical properties of three different classes of halide-based perovskite materials, namely, metal halide perovskites of ABX3 type, halide double perovskites of A2B'B"X6 type, and “vacancy-ordered perovskites” of A2BX6 type...

Spring 2022

Ginige, Gayashani Kanchana

Molecular self-assembly is the basis of structure in Nature. While of far less complexity than a natural system, the same physical rules apply to simple synthetic designed systems that spontaneously form self-assembled structures and patterns. The self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) is an...

Spring 2022

Argento, Brittany M.

Air pollution is a global issue which has an impact on various aspects of life with a vast range of pollutants being monitored with different methods. One class of pollutants is the volatile organic compounds and their presence in the air requires improved methods to accurately report the...

Spring 2022

Velazquez Osorio, Adrian

The world’s growing energy consumption and increasingly visible effects of climate change originated in continued dependence on fossil fuels has strengthened the push to develop cleaner and renewable sources of energy. Solar photovoltaic cells are at the forefront of an ongoing energy transition...

Spring 2021

Lima Amorim, Jéssica

The atmospheric processing of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) leading to the formation and evolution of secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) is highly complex, involving “multiphase” chemistry occurring in the gas, particle, and aqueous phases (e.g., cloudwater, fog, aerosol liquid...

Fall 2021

Constantin, Marius-Georgian

Transient cyclic allenes are strained reactive intermediates currently underexploited in the synthetic organic field. Although there are several literature-known ways to generate and capture cyclic allenes, there is still room for new complementary methods to be developed. This thesis will...