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Fall 2023

Johnson, Trevor A

Environmental analysis is a field that has made significant progress in academic research over the last number of years. Whether it be sampling techniques, sample introduction, separations, or analytical instrumentation, there seems to be no shortage of ideas and innovation to improve the way...

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

Wang, Chu-Fan

Chemical isotope labeling liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (CIL LC-MS) is a powerful technique in metabolomics, offering extensive coverage of the metabolome. This method involves dividing metabolites into sub-groups based on their functional groups and subjecting them to specific labeling...

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

Jung, Jaesoo

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a common neurodegenerative dementia, and its pathological hallmarks include amyloid-β plaque and neurofibrillary tangle formation in the brain. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) revealed that a rare single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in CD33 is associated with...

Fall 2023

Hazrah, Arsh S.

Atmospheric aerosols consist of solid or liquid particles suspended in air with sizes ranging from a few nanometers to several micrometers. Aerosols have the ability to both scatter and absorb incoming solar radiation, directly influencing Earth’s energy budget and resulting in either cooling or...

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 2023

Rygus, Jason P. G.

Catalysis is essential to the modern chemical industry. Catalytic strategies can enable new synthetic methods with improved atom economy and reduced chemical waste under mild conditions, representing an indispensable approach to the development of green chemical processes with improved...

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...

Fall 2023

Mumbaraddi, Dundappa

This thesis describes the synthesis, structures, and properties of two broad classes of inorganic solids, chalcohalides and intermetallics, with the common theme that they contain rare-earth (RE) elements, which belong to the set of critical minerals essential for many technological...