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Responsive and Dynamic Systems from DNA-Mediated Colloidal Interactions
(2018-09-16)
Grafting DNA oligonucleotides to colloidal particles leads to specific, reversible interactions between those particles. However, these interactions have been used almost exclusively to create non-responsive systems through ...
Liquid Metallic Hydrogen at Static Conditions
(2017-05-03)
The search for dense hydrogen metallization is now almost eighty years old. Because of hydrogen’s fundamental significance as the benchmark system for most of the physical and chemical sciences as well as its astrophysical ...
A Framework for Understanding Small Nervous Systems
(2017-01-09)
How do we find important neurons and understand how their dynamics control behavior? Both of these are challenging and general problems in neuroscience. In this dissertation supervised by Sharad Ramanathan, I developed a ...
Studies of the Yttrium Tantalate – Zirconium Oxide Quasi-Binary
(2017-05-12)
For thermal barrier coating (TBC) applications, the high temperature tetragonal phase of ZrO2 has been the widely used material for years due to its many favorable properties, including low thermal conductivity and high ...
Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition of Fluorine-Doped Tin Oxide and Tin-Germanium Oxide: Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Applications
(2018-05-11)
This dissertation addresses renewable energy in two ways: energy storage technology that eases the integration of large-scale wind and solar power into the electric grid, and an earth- abundant solar cell layer intended ...
Vapor Deposition of Halide Perovskites and Hole- Transport Materials for Use in Thin-Film Photovoltaics
(2017-09-08)
The drive toward a sustainable, low-carbon energy future has created a considerable impetus to reduce the cost per watt of electricity produced from solar cells. Thin-film photovoltaics, specifically those produced with ...
Topics in the Development of Aqueous Quinone-based Flow Batteries
(2017-05-12)
The development of economically competitive grid scale energy storage is critical to worldwide adoption of renewable energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This work examines increasing flow battery efficiency and ...
On the Engineering of Interfaces in Chiral Ferromagnetic Heterostructures
(2018-05-12)
Chiral magnetic thin film heterostructures have been of great interest in recent years for their potential for fast domain wall motion stabilized by an antisymmetric exchange called the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction ...
An Airborne Infrared Spectrometer for Coronal Observations: Development, Characterization, and First Science Results from the 2017 Solar Eclipse
(2018-09-16)
The solar magnetic field enables the heating of the corona and provides its underlying structure. Energy stored in coronal magnetic fields is released in flares and coronal mass ejections and ultimately drives space weather. ...
Development of Tin(II) Sulfide Solar Cells by Interface Engineering and Absorber Alloying
(2017-05-12)
Tin(II) sulfide (SnS) is a promising candidate for alternative photovoltaic (PV) materials. Composed of cheap, non-toxic and earth-abundant elemental constituents, SnS has appropriate band gap and high absorption coefficient. ...