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Submissions From 2013

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New Methodologies in Controlled Polymerizations of Main Chain Fluorinated Monomers and Cyclic Esters, Olumide Ibikunle Adebolu

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Ultracold Chemistry of Alkali Clusters, Jason N. Byrd

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Chemistry and Biology of 8,5'-Cyclo-2'-deoxyguanosine and Other DNA Lesions, Rajat S. Das

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Molecular Engineering of Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Brush Copolymers for Photonic and Nanoporous Membrane Applications, Prashant Deshmukh

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Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Emerging Catalytic Applications, Dharmarathna Arachchige Saminda Dharmarathna

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Development of Nanomaterials and Technologies for Environmental Applications, Homer Genuino

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Chemical Processes Influencing Mercury Transformations And Atmospheric Fluxes In The Atmospheric Boundary Layer In Coastal Regions, Susan Warau Gichuki

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Design, Synthesis, and Application of Photoactive Complexes of Biologically Relevant Metals, Celina Gwizdala

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Surfactant-modified DNA and Conjugated Polymers for Photonic Applications, Donna Marie D. Mamangun

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Exfoliation and Chemical Modifications of Natural Flake Graphite, Andrew Jason Oyer

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Advances in Ceramic Coatings and Ceramic Matrix Composite Fabrication, Justin W. Reutenauer

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Preparation of Organofluorine Compounds: Exploring Mono-, Di-, and Tri-fluorination, DiAndra M. Rudzinski

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Bacteriochlorins and Bacteriochlorin Analogs from meso-Tetraarylporphyrins, Lalith P. Samankumara

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Chemically Modified Proteins as Functional Biomaterials, Vindya K. Thilakarathne

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Layered Rare Earth and Transition Metal Materials: Synthesis, Modification and Catalytic Application, Yashan Zhang

Submissions from 2012

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Preparation of Nitrogen-containing Heterocycles via Cyclization of Pyridine-tethered Organolithiums, Elizabeth Archer

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Improved Synthesis of the Longtailed Mealybug Pheromone, Johanna M. Bakonyi

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Key Determinants of Cannabinoid Receptor One Ligand Binding and Recptor Activation, Alexander C Bertalovitz

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Ultra-Stable Protein-Polymer Bioconjugates, Kyle S. Cole

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Insights Into the Mechanism of DNA Mismatch Repair Through a Biochemical Study of Cancer-Associated hMSH2-hMSH6 Mutations, Jennifer Lynn Cyr

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Substituted Phenyl Isothiocyanates for Improved Protein Quantification by Multiple Reaction Monitoring Mass Spectrometry, Pamela Ann C Diego

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Structure, Physical Properties, and Transport of Multiblock Ionomers, Yanfang Fan

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The Nanopore Inner-Sphere Enhancement (NISE) Effect and its Role in Sodium Retention, Daniel Reinsperger Ferreira

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Fluorescence Tagging of Marine Low Molecular Weight Carboxylic Acids, Brian C. Gismervik

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Mechanistic Studies and Optimization of Microwave-Assisted Palladium-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions and an Academic Prospective on “Quality by Design”, Neha K. Grewal

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Synthesis, Characterization, and Photocatalytic Testing of Titania-Based Aerogels for the Degradation of Volatile Organic Compounds, Dayton Thomas Horvath

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Novel Synthetic Routes to Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Energy Storage and Environmental Remediation Applications, Hui Huang

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Growth Kinetics and Characteristics of Frankia sp. CcI3 and Proteomic Analyses of Nitrogen-fixing Vesicles, Ying Huang

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Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Nanostructured Catalysts for Clean Energy and Environmental Applications, Boxun Hu

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Design and Synthesis of Fluorescence Turn-on Probes for Iron, Randy K. Jackson

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Synthesis of carbohydrate modified alpha-galactosylceramide analogs and the discovery of novel reactions involving strained heterocycles, Santosh Kumar Keshipeddy

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Synthesis of Metal Oxide Hierarchical Structures using Ultraviolet Light, Cecil Kithongo King'ondu

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The Synthesis of a Homologous Series of Alkyl Lumazines and their Application to the Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes, William P. Kopcha

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Synthesis and Methodology Development Involving Strained Heterocycles and Preparation of Immunodulatory Glycosphingolipids, Yanke Liang

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Ultrasensitive Arrays for Multiplexed Detection of Oral Cancer Serum Biomarker Proteins in the Clinic, Ruchika Malhotra

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Design, synthesis and application of metal cages based on 4,5-dimethoxy-2-nitrobenzyl (DMNB) utilizing macrocyclic and acyclic receptors for biological relevant metal ions, Hannah Wanjiku Mbatia

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Design and Synthesis of Metallic and Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Environmental Catalysis, Eric Chomba Njagi

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Oxazoloporphyrins, Oxazolochlorins, and Oxazolobacteriochlorins, Junichi K. Ogikubo

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Microwave-enhanced Processing of Transition Metal oxides, Silicates, and Aluminosilicates and Their Catalytic Studies, Naftali Nandera Opembe

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Design And Synthesis of Ring-Expanded Analogues of Amino Sugars And Discovery of A Phosphine Catalyzed Tandem Cycloisomerization And [4+2] Cycloaddition Reaction Sequence, Jaideep Saha

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Synthesis of Half-Loaded Nitroimidazole Indocyanine Green Dyes Attached to Carbon Nanotubes, Courtney L. Stanford

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Nanofiber-based composite structures for ion-exchange applications, Chitrabala Subramanian

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Regulation of the Myogenic Factor MEF2 by the mAKAP Complex, Maximilian A Vargas

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Viscoelastic Behavior of Low Molecular Weight Sulfonated Polystyrene Ionomers, Hongying Zhao

Submissions From 2011

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Investigation of the Effect of Polyols on the Conformational and Solution Phase Stability of Aqueous Antibody Formulations, Shermeen Amyn Abbas

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Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers as Stimuli-Responsive Materials, Suk-kyun Ahn

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Higher-Order Assemblies of Flavin-Wrapped, Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Christopher Andrew Badalucco

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HSV-1 exonuclease UL12 interacts with host recombination factors and is essential for viral growth, Nandakumar Balasubramanian

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Investigating the Photochemistry of Azobenzene and Nitrobenzyl Compounds, Herath Mudiyanselage Dhammika Bandara

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Porphyrin N-Oxidations and beta,beta'-Bond Modifications, Subhadeep Banerjee

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Part I: Novel Reactions of Oxoammonium Salts in the Presence of Base Part II: Behavior of Ketones and Thioketones with Organometallic Compounds, Ashley Lynn Bartelson

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Structural and Synthetic Studies into Novel Antifolates Targeting Bacillus anthracis Dihydrofolate Reductase, Jennifer Megan Beierlein

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Examining the Gametophytic Calyptra and its Role in Sporophyte Development of the Moss Funaria hygrometrica Hedw, Jessica Meridith Budke

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Synthesis of Amphiphilic Biodegradable Dendrimer-Like Star Polymers for Targeted Drug Delivery, Weiqiang Cao

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Electrochemical Detection of Multiple Cancer Protein Biomarkers using Microfluidic Device, Bhaskara V Chikkaveeraiah

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Biocatalytic Nanomaterials: Mechanism of Enzyme Binding to Zr (IV) Phosphate Nano-Discs, Ruma Chowdhury

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Towards the Synthesis of alpha-Aminogalactosylceramides, Shaun C. Christian

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Mechanistic Study of The Small Molecule Inhibitor DX-52-1, Junru Cui

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Part A: Investigations of the Synthesis of Pyrazinochlorins and Other Porphyrin Derivatives. Part B: investigations of Student Translation Between 2-D/3-D Representations of Molecules, Michelle L Dean

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In situ Polymerization of Conjugated Polymers and All-Organic Electrochromic Fabrics, Yujie Ding

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The Low-Temperature Redox-Assisted Seeded Growth of CdSe Nanocrystals, Jonathan Daniel Doll

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Nanostructured Arrays of Semiconducting Octahedral Molecular Sieves by Pulsed Laser Deposition, Anais E Espinal

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New reactions involving strained heterocycles and syntheses of glycosphingolipids analogues of KRN7000, Elisa Farber

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Towards the Understanding of Resistance Mutations in Dihydrofolate Reductase from Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Kathleen Mary Frey

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A Facile One-Step Template-Free Synthesis of Uniform Hollow Microstructures of Non-doped and Iron-doped Cryptomelane-Type Manganese Oxide K-OMS-2, Hugo Martin Galindo Valbuena

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Electrochemical Detection of Cancer Biomarkers, Gary Conrad Jensen

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Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Applications of Transition Metal Oxide/Carbonate Nanomaterials, Lei Jin

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Spectral and kinetic properties of carotenoid triplet states in solution and in the peridinin-chloropyhll a protein complex. Synthesis of carotenoids for pigment identification and photochemical studies, Shanti Kaligotla

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Synthesis of glycolipids for NKT cell stimulation, Maryam Khalili

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Protein/Nanoparticle Interactions: A Calorimetric and Spectroscopic Study, Denise A Lee-Haye

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Fragmentation and Moving Domain Methods for the Computation of Electrostatic Potentials in Proteins, Lochana Chathurapriya Menikarachchilage

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Electronic and Magnetic Structure of Octahedral Molecular Sieves, Aimee M Morey-Oppenheim

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Rational Design of Thermally Stable Novel Biocatalytic Nanomaterials: Enzyme Stability in Restricted Spatial Dimensions, Vamsi K Mudhivarthi

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Conjugated Polymers and DNA for Photovoltaic and Photonic Applications, Palamu Arachchige Daminda Sampath Navarathne

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Oxabicyclic Building Blocks as Key Intermediates in the Synthesis of Natural Products, E. Zachary Oblak

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Part I: Total Synthesis of Novel Dihydroceramids from the Dental Pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis Part II: Application of Conducting Polymers as Green-Chemistry Reagents in Organic Reactions Part III: Synthesis of Imidazole-Indocyanine Green Conjugates, Christopher M Pavlik

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Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer-Clay Systems Prepared by Surface-Initiated Polymerization, David P. Penaloza

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Hydroxyapatite/Poly(L-Lactic Acid) Fibrous Composites for Bone Tissue Engineering, Fei Peng

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Selective Oxidations of Alcohols and Indoles Using the Oxammonium Cation, Joseph Qiu

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Biochemical and Biophysical Characterization of Type I Retinal Binding Proteins for their Application in Device Electronics, Matthew J Ranaghan

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Investigation of the Effect of Xanthophyll Composition on Energy Transfer and Quenching in Light-Harvesting Complexes from the Diatom, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, Jose L. Robinson Duggon

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Microstructural Characterization of Base Metal Alloys with Conductive Native Oxides for Electrical Contact Applications, Bilge Seda Senturk

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Solution Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers: Towards Solid-State Electrolyte Applications, Nitin Sharma

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Design of Advanced Materials by Exploiting Hierarchically-Structured Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers, Yuxiang Zhou

Submissions From 2010

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Self-assembling Polypeptide Nanoparticles: Design, Synthesis, Biophysical Characterization and Biomedical Applications, Tais de Araujo Pereira Falcao Pimentel

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Targeted drug delivery using carbon nanotubes for cancer therapeutics, Ashwinkumar A Bhirde

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Controlled synthesis, characterization, and applications of advanced inorganic nanomaterials, Chun-Hu Chen

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A precursor approach to the synthesis and fabrication of conducting polymers, Jia Choi

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Assessment of Bovine Rod Outer Segment (ROS) Disk Membrane Heterogeneity and the Contribution of the Bilayer to Rhodopsin Kinetic Stability, Scott Chalon Corley

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Integrin,alphaIIbbeta3: Tale of Two Cytoplasmic Tails, Lalit Deshmukh

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pi-Conjugated Polymers for Electrochromic and Photovoltaic Applications, Tanmoy Dey

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The effect of thiolated additives on the properties of wheat gluten based plastics, aqueous solutions and electrospun fibers, Jing Dong

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Microwave Spectroscopy and Structures of Several Substituted Acetylenes and Fluorocarbons, Joseph A. Fournier

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Confined Ferroelectric Properties in Poly(vinylidene Fluoride) PVDF-Based Random Copolymers and Graft Copolymers for Electric Energy Storage Applications, Fangxiao Guan

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Molecular mechanisms of microRNA regulation in breast cancer cells, Irene Kathryn Guttilla

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Part 1: Synthesis of psico-nucleoside analogs of oxetanocin A. Part 2: Synthesis of alpha-glycosphingolipids for in vivo studies and purity determination, Nathan E Hnatiuk

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Mercury cycling in sediments of Chesapeake Bay and the mid-Atlantic continental shelf and slope, Terill Anne Hollweg

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Electrochromic devices: From windows to fabric, Michael Anthony Invernale

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Development of metabonomics tools for biomarker identification in multiple sclerosis, Tzipporah Michelle Kertesz

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Expanding the Scope and Utility of the Scientific Microwave Apparatus in Organic Synthesis: Reactive Gases, Scale-Up and New Methodology Development, Chad Michael Kormos