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  • Modelling Gas Adsorption inside Metal-Organic Frameworks using a Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo Algorithm

    Creator:
    York, Arthur H.
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    Metal-organic frameworks are promising novel materials for gas storage and separations because of their extremely high internal surface area and their modular structures based on metal nodes and organic linker molecules. Due to their modular design, it is possible to finely tune a structure for optimal storage of a specific...
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    using a Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo Algorithm Abstract approved: Cory Simon Metal-organic frameworks

  • Methane Adsorption Simulation Benchmarking in Metal Organic Framework Compounds

    Creator:
    Khare, Mira M.
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    Metal Organic Framework Structures (MOFs) have shown great promise for use in gas storage. Computer simulations have been touted as a method to identify strong candidate molecules for experimental research. This project assessed the relationship between computer simulations of methane absorption and experimental gas absorption. We acquired experimental data and...
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    Abstract approved: Cory M. Simon Metal Organic Framework Structures (MOFs) have shown great promise for

  • Practicality Over Partisanship: The Prospect of Universal Healthcare in the United States

    Creator:
    Brundage, Simon A.
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    My study of universal healthcare was motivated by the juxtaposition of social welfare and self-interest in the United States. Unlike most other industrialized countries—whom have adopted either a multi-payer or single-payer system of universal healthcare—the United States is situated uniquely, from both a philosophical and political standpoint. Among others, it...
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    Over Partisanship: The Prospect of Universal Healthcare in the United States by Simon Brundage

  • Lanthanide Based Metal Organic Framework for the Conversion of CO₂ and Propylene Oxide to Propylene Carbonate

    Creator:
    Le, David H.
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    Lanthanide (Ln) based molecular complexes have shown great potential as Lewis acid catalysts for the activation of small molecules. Despite the wealth of structural versatility and high catalytic activity of these complexes, they often lack selectivity and recyclability. This hinders their potential for use in large-scale industrial applications where waste...
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Cory Simon, Committee Member, representing School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental

  • Optimizing Cancer Drug Treatment Models Using Process Dynamics

    Creator:
    Jones, Alexander R.
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    Cancer is currently the second leading cause of death in the United States and the sixth leading cause of death worldwide. Due to cancer’s variability in type, location, growth rates, and patient physiology, treatment models are based off of previous experimental and clinical work. This variability, however, can lead to...
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    Engineering _____________________________________________________________________ Cory Simon, Committee

  • Predicting Protein-Protein Interactions in a Cnidarian Model System

    Creator:
    Gregory, Dylan B.
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    The symbiotic sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana (Aiptasia) is a model organism used to better understand cnidarian-algal symbiosis and coral bleaching (dysbiosis). Many biological processes are hypothesized to be involved in coral dysbiosis, and the innate immunity is a key area of interest. Rab proteins are small proteins with GTPase domains,...
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    Simon Davy, Committee Member, representing Marine Biology at Victoria University of Wellington

  • Optimization of NH2-MIL-88B (Fe) for reactive oxygen species generation

    Creator:
    Shotton, Lewis
    Abstract:
    Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as promising candidates in novel cancer therapies due to their unique properties, including high surface area, tunable crystal size, and exposed metal ion active sites for catalysis. The MOF NH2-MIL-88B has shown potential use in cancer theranostics. Its open metal active sites catalyze the reduction...
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Cory Simon, Committee Member, representing School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental

  • Comparing the autoignition performance of chemical kinetic models for toluene using data extracted from the literature

    Creator:
    Mayer, Morgan
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    Real transportation fuels contain a wide range of hydrocarbon species, and this complexity poses challenges for modeling. Surrogates with a simpler blend of hydrocarbon reference fuels can approximate the physical and chemical characteristics of real fuels and enable practical simulation of the reacting flows that occur in engines and combustors....
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    , representing School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering Cory Simon, Committee Member

  • Oxidation Energies of Chromium and Tungsten Substituted Ni (111) Surfaces

    Creator:
    Roth, Anika
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    The corrosion and heat resistance properties of nickel alloys are hallmarks of their importance in infrastructure and industrial catalysis processes, but these properties are highly dependent on the chemical composition of the alloy surface. Density functional theory was used for analysis of surface oxidation of four combinations of chromium and...
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    Cory Simon, Committee Member, representing CBEE

  • Metal-organic framework thin film synthesis via a microfluidic pen system

    Creator:
    Chang, Victoria
    Abstract:
    ZIF-8, a zeolitic imidazolate framework that consists of zinc ions and imidazolate linkers, is of great interest due to its simple synthesis methods, low-cost raw materials, chemical and thermal stability, as well as its stability in moist environments. Furthermore, due to its unique structure, it contains well-defined pores that have...
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Cory Simon, Committee Member, representing Department of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental