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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...

Fall 2022

Gohil,Khyati

This thesis describes efforts towards understanding the neurotrophic activity of banglenes and the development of a new fluorescent protein-based FRET pair. Neurotrophic small molecule natural products are functional analogs of signaling proteins called neurotrophins, which cause a pro-growth,...

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

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

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...

Fall 2022

Yang, Yanqing

My PhD thesis centers on characterization of non-covalent interactions involving chiral molecules in solution, in cold rare gas matrices and at organic|water interfaces using a combined experimental and theoretical approach. In order to extract structural information and conformation...

Fall 2022

Ha, Michelle

A major challenge that plagues nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopists is the inherently low sensitivity of this workhorse characterization technique. This low sensitivity results in long acquisition times and/or costly isotopic-labelling to obtain good resolution and signal-to-noise...

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,...