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- 2Nizio, Katie D
- 2Wang, Lei
- 1Abdel Latif Ibraheem, Ahmed Abdel Mohsen
- 1Abdelfattah, Ahmed
- 1Acedo, Jeella Z
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Spring 2020
Silicon is the foundation of the electronics industry and is now the basis for a myriad of new hybrid electronics applications, such as sensing, silicon nanoparticle-based imaging and light emission, photonics, and applications in solar fuels. From interfacing of biological materials to molecular...
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Fall 2020
At present, the number of cancer patients who develop resistance to conventional cancer therapeutics, such as DNA damaging chemotherapeutics, or radiotherapy, is increasing. A major reason for developing such resistance is that cancer cells have the ability to repair their DNA damage caused by...
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Fall 2020
The climate crisis has rendered the utilization of clean and renewable solar energy for chemical transformations extremely important. Plasmonic nanostructures can provide tunable optical and electronic properties that can drive chemical reactions, realizing the conversion of light energy into...
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Spring 2020
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), or more specifically pentacene derivatives, are promising candidates for solar energy conversion. Pentacenes can undergo π-stacking in solution and, consequently, can be poorly soluble. Furthermore, the pentacene moiety can react with oxygen, and it can...
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Fall 2020
Over the coming decades, global population and energy consumption are projected to increase dramatically, with the latter doubling by 2050 as per the most conservative estimates. Much of this demand is likely to be met with increased use of fossil fuels. The burning of fossil fuels is a major...
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Investigation of Strain-Activated Trapping Reactions of 1,2-Cyclohexadiene: Intramolecular Capture by Pendent Furans and Styrenes
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1,2-Cyclohexadiene is a small carbocyclic allene that as a reactive intermediate can be utilized in a variety of reaction pathways. The chemical literature around this species is largely limited to various methods of generation and simple trapping reactions. Little research exists on methods to...
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Software Development for Integrating Molpro with Newton-X for Adiabatic and Non-adiabatic Excited State Dynamics
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An interface between the non-adiabatic dynamics software Newton-X and the quantum chemistry software package Molpro has been created for select methods: second order local coupled cluster (LCC2), second order local algebraic diagrammatic construction (LADC(2)), and complete active space...
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Fall 2019
This dissertation reports a crosslinked catalyst organic framework, which was prepared by an alternating ring opening olefin metathesis polymerization (alt-ROMP) between dichloro{N,N'-bis({(2-diphenylphosphino)phenyl}methylidene)bicyclo[2.2.1]-hept-5-ene-2,3-diamine}-ruthenium,...
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Fall 2019
In this thesis, I describe the development and demonstration of a screening platform for the discovery of ice-nucleators. Ice nucleating agents (INAs) have been used to control the temperature of ice nucleation within a narrow range at high temperature. They play an important role in atmospheric...
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Investigation of New Mild Routes to Substituted and Unsubstituted 1,2-Cycloheptadienes and Their Trapping Reactions
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Strained cyclic allenes are one of many reactive intermediates. They are rare and underutilized chemical species, and their use in the formation of strategic bonds in organic chemistry is limited. Strained cyclic allenes have a unique reactivity that allows useful bond-forming processes to be...