Photochemical Sciences Ph.D. Dissertations
Dissertations from 2024
Reprocessable and Photoresponsive Silicones for Increased Longevity and Upcycling/Recycling abilities, Herenia Espitia Armenta
Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Photocaged R-Alkoxysilanes and Siloxane Polymers, Mahmud Ramdan Rashed
Development and Characterization of Photo-Initiated and Responsive Hybrid Organosilicon Materials, Cory Blake Sims
Dissertations from 2023
Characterization of Gallium Oxide thin film grown by MOCVD, Detcho Jean Noalick Morane Aboa
Probing Lipid Membrane Interactions with Drug Molecules and Cationic Proteins Using Combined Experimental and Computational Analysis, Lorena Alvarez
Understanding Light Driven Processes in Molecules and Materials, Sruthy Baburaj
Impact of Vibrational Mode Coupling on the Isomerization of Natural and Synthetic Molecular Switches, Alejandro Blanco Gonzalez
Manipulating Excited State Pathways to Uncover New Photochemical Processes, Lakshmy Kannadi Valloli
Ultrafast Excited State Relaxation Dynamics in Molecular Probes and Organic Molecules of Biological Importance, Laura Marie Obloy
Probing the excited state processes with Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy, Sarvar Rakhimov
Excited State Dynamics and Chemical Bond Rearrangement in Ruthenium Nitrosyl Complexes and Several Other Heavy-Atom-Containing Compounds, Vasily Vorobyev
Dissertations from 2022
Aggregative Growth of Colloidal Semiconducting Nanocrystals for Nanoshell Quantum Dots and Quantum Dot Molecules, James Cassidy
Synthesis and Characterizations of Bis-diazirines and Their Applications in Organic Electronics, Kaustav Dey
Photochemistry of Vanadium Clusters and Applications For Responsive Materials, E.A. Kalani D. Edirisinghe
Ultrafast Excited State Dynamics of Inorganic Molecules Related to Modern Light Harvesting Applications, Firew Tarekegn Gemeda
Photoreactivity and Enhanced Toughness and Stability in Polysaccharide-Based Materials Using Metal Ion Coordination, Carina Haddad
Synthesis and investigation of silsesquioxane networks from static to photoactive smart materials, Nai-hsuan Hu
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy Studies of Protein Conformational Dynamics in DNA Damage Recognition and Cell Signaling, Sunidhi Jaiswal
Synthesis and photophysical property investigation of beads on a chain (BoC) silsesquioxane hybrid oligomers: probable pseudo conjugation, Shahrea Mahbub
Boronic Acids as Optical Chemosensors for Saccharides and Phosphate Related Analytes, Andrej Penavic
Electro-Optical Properties of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals Made by Means of Coalescence, Dmitry Porotnikov
Transformations of Siloxane-Based Materials Toward a Reuse and Recycling Loop: Catalytic Methods and Photochemistry, Buddhima Rupasinghe
Dissertations from 2021
Phenylethylamine Derivatives: Pharmacological and Toxicological Studies, Amal Aburahma
Computational Raman Spectroscopy of Heterogeneous Organic-Inorganic Interfaces, Sajjad Afroosheh
Defect Studies in Metals, Alloys, and Oxides by Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy and Related Techniques, Sahil Agarwal
Metal-organic Frameworks as Modern Tools for Isomerism, Photophysics and Spin Chemistry, Mayokun Joshua Ayodele
Photophysical Studies of Luminescent Supra-Molecules and Their Application in Sensing of Anionic Analytes, Sepideh Farshbaf
Growth and Characterization of Wide Band-Gap Group III Oxide Semiconductors by MOCVD, Armando Hernandez Jr.
Study of Defects and Doping in β-Ga2O3, Md Minhazul Islam
Single-Molecule Force Manipulation and Nanoscopic Imaging of Protein Structure-Dynamics-Function Relationship, Susovan Roy Chowdhury
Exciton Physics of Colloidal Nanostructures and Metal Oxides, Yiteng Tang
Energy Transport in Colloidal Inorganic Nanocrystals, Mingrui Yang
Dissertations from 2020
Uncovering New Photochemical Pathways Through Molecular Restrictions, Sapna Ahuja
Functional Materials and Chemistry Education: Biomimetic Metallopolymers, Photoresponsive Gels and Infrared Cameras, Travis C. Green
Photochemistry of Iron(III) with Carboxylate-containing Polysaccharides for Sustainable Materials, Mudugamuwe Hewawasam Jayan Savinda Karunarathna
Tailoring Biomass for Light Active Compounds and Materials, Ravichandranath Singathi
New Developments in Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy Techniques: From Experimental Setups to Advanced Processing Software, Petr Stepanov
Dissertations from 2019
Ultrafast photophysical and photochemical dynamics of polyhalogenated alkanes, cycloalkanes, and transition metal complexes, Darya S. Budkina
Light as a Reagent for Chemical Reactions-Excited State Manipulation to Discover New Reactivity, Sunil Kumar Kandappa
Synthesis and Optical Properties of Colloidal PbS Nanosheets, Shashini M. Premathilaka
Sensing of Anions, Amines, Diols, and Saccharides by Supramolecular Fluorescent Sensors, Mariia Pushina
Optoelectronic Properties of Wide Band Gap Semiconductors, Pooneh Saadatkia
Optical Sensors for Detection of Enantiomeric Excess Application, Sara Sheykhi
Pyridinium Salts: from Photoinduced Through-Space Electron Delocalization to Novel Spontaneous Reactions Causing Thermal DNA Damage, Nikolai Tcyrulnikov
Studies of Photoinduced DNA Damage by Phenanthrene Dihydrodioxin and Light-driven Electron Delocalization in Pyridinium Molecules, Anastasiia Tikhomirova
Development of zinc oxide based flexible electronics, David J. Winarski
Probing the Photochemistry of Rhodopsin Through Population Dynamics Simulations, Xuchun Yang
Dissertations from 2018
Investigations of protein structure-function relationships, Hayfa Habes Almutairi
Zero-dimensional and two-dimensional colloidal nanomaterials and their photophysics, Zhoufeng Jiang
Photochemistry of dipyridyl-phenanthrenedioxin-copper complexes, Kanykey E. Karabaeva
Impact of Electronic State Mixing on the Photoisomerization Timescale of Natural and Synthetic Molecular Systems, Madushanka Manathunga
Metal-free electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction and photocatalysts for carbon dioxide reduction reaction, Usha Pandey Kadel
Raman Spectroscopic Imaging Analysis of Signaling Proteins and Protein Cofactors in Living Cells, Achut Prasad Silwal
Dissertations from 2017
Exciton Diffusion in Nanocrystal Solids, Natalia N. Kholmicheva
Design, synthesis, and characterization of photoresponsive materials using coordination bonds and other supramolecular interactions, Anton Razgoniaev
Implementation of High Throughput Screening Strategies in Optical Sensing for Pharmaceutical Engineering, Elena G. Shcherbakova
Dissertations from 2016
Sensing of Enantiomeric Excess in Chiral Carboxylates, Ali Akdeniz
Oxidation of nucleic acids: Chemistry of pyrene quinone and development of dihydrodioxins as DNA photooxidizing agents., Rabah Nafa Alsulami
A Computational Study of Diiodomethane Photoisomerization, Veniamin Aleksandrovich Borin
Single-molecule interfacial electron transfer dynamics in solar energy conversion, Bharat Dhital
Photochemistry of Fe(III)-carboxylates in polysaccharide-based materials with tunable mechanical properties, Giuseppe E. Giammanco
First Supramolecular Fluorescence-Based Assay for Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors, Petr Koutnik
A supramolecular approach for engineering functional solid-state chromophore arrays within metal-organic materials, Liubov Mikhaylovna Lifshits
Photochemical energy conversion in metal-semiconductor hybrid nanocrystals, Natalia Razgoniaeva
Dissertations from 2015
Ultrafast Photochemistry of Polyhalogenated Methanes and Non-Metals, Evgeniia Butaeva
Single Molecule Optical Magnetic Tweezers Microscopy Studies of Protein Dynamics, Qing Guo
Synthesis, Photochemical Properties and DNA Binding Studies of DNA Cleaving Agents Based on Chiral Dipyridine Dihydrodioxins Salts, Alexei E. Shamaev
Iminium Based Electrocaralysts for Water Oxidation and Organic Photohydrides for Proton Reduction, Janitha Kumara Walpita
Dissertations from 2014
Single Molecular Spectroscopy and Atomic Force Manipulation of Protein Conformation and Dynamics, Jin Cao
Design, Synthesis, Photophysical, and Electrochemical Studies of Novel Cyclometalated Pyrazolate-Bridged Dinuclear Platinum(II) Complexes, Arnab Chakraborty
Photon Upconversion Based on Triplet-Triplet Annihilation, Fan Deng
Design, Synthesis, and Application of Sensors for Biologically Relevant Molecules, Nina Esipenko
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy Studies of the Conformational Dynamics of Enzymes, Maolin Lu
Dissertations from 2013
Understanding the Relationship Between Thermal and Photochemical Isomerization in Visual Receptors, Samer Gozem
Iminium Salts and Their Derivatives as Models for Catalytic Water Oxidation, Renat Khatmullin
Photocatalytic Water Splitting: Materials Design and High-Throughput Screening of Molecular Compositions, Rony Khnayzer
Synthesis and Applications of Heterostructured Semiconductor Nanocrystals., Elena Khon
Protein Recognition by Self-organizing Sensors, Maria Kozelkova
Ultrafast Photochemistry of Polyatomic Molecules Containing Labile Halogen Atoms in Solution, Andrey Mereshchenko
Natural and Artificial Flavin-Based Catalysis, Ekaterina Mirzakulova
Rational design of synthetic metalloproteins, Vasily Morozov
Single-Molecule Interfacial Electron Transfer in Solar Energy Conversion and Bioremediation, Papatya Sevinç
The Excited State Behavior of Iminium Derivatives and Their Reduced Forms, Dapeng Zhou
Dissertations from 2012
An Analysis of Artificial Rhodopsin Mimics Using Multiconfigurational Ab Initio Computations, Mark Huntress
Turning on Fluorescence in Silico: From Radical Cations to 11-cis Locked Rhodopsin Analogues, Elena Laricheva
Development of Cross-reactive Sensors Array: Practical Approach for Ion Detection in Aqueous Media, Yuanli Liu
The Design, Syntheses, and Photophysics of Novel Pt(II) Polypyridyl Arylacetylides and Arylthiolates, Valentina Prusakova
Single Molecule Spectroscopy Studies of Membrane Protein Dynamics and Energetics by Combined Experimental and Computational Analyses, Suneth Rajapaksha