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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 2022

Li, Ziqi

Nanomaterials based upon Group 14 elements (i.e., silicon and germanium) are drawing a great deal of attention from researchers since they are biocompatible and exhibit unique optical and electronic properties. Surface functionalization, which is one of the most critical aspects of nanomaterial...

Spring 2022

Rosana, Albert Remus R.

Microbial-based biotechnologies were developed using combinations of functional genomics, biochemical tools, and a tripartite pine tree-beetle-fungal infection model. Several bacterial and fungal species were probed for natural product biosynthesis potential using whole genome sequencing while...

Spring 2022

Wong, Ying Kit Jeffrey

Phage display libraries bearing natural amino acids are commonly used for discovering potential therapeutic macrocycles; however, direct application of those linear peptides often leads to poor pharmacokinetics, including low serum stability, lower cell membrane permeability, and rapid renal...

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...

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

Gao,Feng

Polymer based materials have been utilized widely for applications that can be of benefit to human health and the environment. This thesis covers the general scope of polymer materials on bases of star-shaped polymer and temperature-responsive poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) (pNIPAm) microgels,...

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...