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Theses and Dissertations--Chemical and Materials Engineering

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING MANUFACTURING PROCESSES FOR MAKING LITHIUM-ION BATTERY ELECTRODES, Mohanad N. AL-Shroofy

UTILIZATION OF BIO-RENEWABLE LIGNIN IN BUILDING HIGH CAPACITY, DURABLE, AND LOW-COST SILICON-BASED NEGATIVE ELECTRODES FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES, Tao Chen

TUNABLE NANOCOMPOSITE MEMBRANES FOR WATER REMEDIATION AND SEPARATIONS, Sebastián Hernández Sierra

Synthesis and Energy Applications of Mesoporous Titania Thin Films, Syed Z. Islam

UNDERSTANDING GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASE PROCESSIVITY FOR IMPROVED BIOMASS CONVERSION, Suvamay Jana

FORMULATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLY(β-AMINO ESTER) NETWORKS FOR CONTROLLED DELIVERY OF ANTIOXIDANTS IN PHARMACEUTICAL APPLICATIONS, Vinod Shivaji Patil

FUNCTIONALIZATION OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES ON MEMBRANES AND ITS INFLUENCE ON BIOFOULING, Conor G. Sprick

CHARGE TRANSPORT IN ELECTRONIC-IONIC COMPOSITES, Long Zhang

PORE-CONFINED CARRIERS AND BIOMOLECULES IN MESOPOROUS SILICA FOR BIOMIMETIC SEPARATION AND TARGETING, Shanshan Zhou

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Synthesis and Characterization of Curcumin Polymer for Application in Radiation Induced Lung Damage, Mark C. Bailey

SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ANTIOXIDANT CONJUGATED POLY(ΒETA-AMINO ESTER) MICRO/NANOGELS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF OXIDATIVE STRESS, Prachi Gupta

PEPTIDE-FUNCTIONALIZED MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES FOR CANCER THERAPY APPLICATIONS, Anastasia K. Hauser

THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROSTRUCTURAL EFFECTS ON MULTI-SITE FATIGUE CRACK NUCLEATION BEHAVIORS OF HIGH STRENGTH ALUMINUM ALLOYS, Yan Jin

BIOACTIVE POLY(BETA-AMINO ESTER) BIOMATERIALS FOR TREATMENT OF INFECTION AND OXIDATIVE STRESS, Andrew L. Lakes

SURFACE-INITIATED POLYMERIZATIONS FOR THE RAPID SORTING OF RARE CANCER CELLS, Jacob L. Lilly

SYNTHESIS OF TITANIA THIN FILMS WITH CONTROLLED MESOPORE ORIENTATION: NANOSTRUCTURE FOR ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE, Suraj R. Nagpure

UNDERSTANDING ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION IN LITHIUM ION BATTERIES THROUGH MULTI-SCALE MODELING, Jie Pan

DESIGN OF HIGHLY STABLE LOW-DENSITY SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS USING THIOL-YNE CLICK REACTION FOR THE STUDY OF PROTEIN-SURFACE INTERACTIONS, Leila Safazadeh Haghighi

lnvestigation of the Critical Role of Polymeric Binders for Silicon Negative Electrodes in Lithium-lon Batteries, Jiagang Xu

THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROSTRUCTURE-BASED MODELS FOR FATIGUE CRACK NUCLEATION AND FATIGUE CRACK BRANCHING IN HIGH STRENGTH AL ALLOYS, Lin Yang

IMPROVING THE CAPACITY, DURABILITY AND STABILITY OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES BY INTERPHASE ENGINEERING, Qinglin Zhang

First-Principles Studies of Structure-Property Relationships: Enabling Design of Functional Materials, Qunfei Zhou

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

BIOMIMETIC ORAL MUCIN FROM POLYMER MICELLE NETWORKS, Sundar Prasanth Authimoolam

NANOMECHANICAL AND SCALING BEHAVIOR OF NANOPOROUS GOLD, Nicolas J. Briot

FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES OF SURFACTANT TEMPLATED METAL OXIDE MATERIALS SYNTHESIS AND TRANSFORMATION FOR ADSORPTION AND ENERGY APPLICATIONS, Saikat Das