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Chemistry Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains some of the theses and dissertations produced by students in the University of Oregon Chemistry Graduate Program. Paper copies of these and other dissertations and theses are available through the UO Libraries.
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McKenzie, Jacob
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
While conductive metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and open-framework metal chalcogenides (OFMCs) have received considerable attention in recent years, there are still fundamental questions that remain unanswered. With ...
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Zhao, Yang
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Electrochemistry is a field that lies at the crossroads of electricity and chemistry, focusing on the transformation between electrical and chemical potentials, typically occurring at the electrochemical interfaces - the ...
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LeRoy, Michael
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Soft materials are a class of materials including colloids, polymers, DNA, and proteins. Due to their organization on the mesoscopic length scales they exhibit a wide variety of properties such as self-assembly and response ...
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McDowell, Benjamin
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
As modern electronic devices continue to shrink in size, the limitations of Si as a transistor material become increasingly imminent. To overcome these limitations, it is necessary to explore alternative materials that can ...
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Hoeher, Janson
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
RNA is an important biological molecule, with its function helping out with different processes in cells. How RNA functions is related to its structure, with different structured RNA behaving in different ways. Studying ...
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Shepherd, Samantha
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Ion mobility-mass spectrometry is a powerful tool for identifying and elucidating biomolecular structures and behaviors. This technique is able to retain even weak and non-covalent interactions permitting the study of ...
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Mayhugh, Jacob
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Shape-persistent molecules have abundant chemical potential as organic functional materials. Access to these molecular cages and macrocycles, however, is nontrivial and often require long or low-yielding synthetic pathways ...
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Chang, Alison
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Metal-mediated alkene transformations is a rapidly developing field to obtain various organic precursors for pharmaceutical compounds, industrial chemicals, and consumer products. The pursuit of developing Earth-abundant ...
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Maurer, Jack
(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)
Most biological systems, particularly protein-DNA complexes, leverage a dynamic evolution of their structure to perform a myriad of functions within the context of the cell. Decades of detailed biophysical research have ...
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Fehr, Julia
(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)
Strained molecules possess the potential energy required to do work in the form of further chemical transformations. Strained alkynes in particular are an attractive handle for such applications as they can undergo the ...
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May, James
(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)
Graphitic carbon nanomaterials hold tremendous promise for a variety of applications. The realization of this potential, however, has been hampered by the lack of synthetic methods by which we can prepare such materials ...
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Warren, Gabrielle
(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)
Antiaromaticity, while associated with instability, imparts beneficial properties such as decreased HOMO-LUMO energy gaps. Compounds containing antiaromatic subunits are not only of fundamental interest, but of interest ...
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Price, Tavis
(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)
Cycloparaphenylenes and related nanohoops offer a new topology to organic chemists to expand the catalogue of electro-responsive materials. Developments in their synthesis have made many functional groups and arenes ...
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Chen, Lihaokun
(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)
Water dissociation (WD, H2O → H+ + OH−) is the core process in bipolar membranes (BPMs) that limits energy efficiency. Both electric-field and catalytic effects have been invoked to describe WD, but the interplay of the ...
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Lemon, Mellie
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
This dissertation focuses on the use of the modulated elemental reactants synthesis method to target previously unknown, metastable compounds. The nucleation and growth of the compounds discovered were monitored via x-ray ...
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Lindquist, Grace
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Water electrolyzers (WEs) are a key technology for a sustainable economy. When powered by renewable electricity, WEs produce green hydrogen, which can be used for energy, fertilizer, and industrial applications and thus ...
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Marshall, Checkers
(University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)
Metal-organic framework nanoparticles exhibit both high internal surface area and good colloidal stability in a variety of solvents including biological media. These materials are sought after for a range of applications, ...
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Fabrizio, Kevin
(University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)
The emergence of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as a class of versatile and renewable materials has instigated a paradigm shift in the field of chemistry. Their exceptional properties, such as high surface area, tunable ...
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Bailey, Thomas
(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
Chromatin is made up of an organism’s DNA and DNA binding proteins inside of the nucleus. Nucleosomes are the fundamental unit of chromatin, consisting of a 147 base pair DNA sequence and a protein octamer comprised of 8 ...
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Banks, Orion
(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
DNA in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells is condensed into chromatin by forming specialized structures called nucleosomes. DNA is wrapped around a set of histone proteins to from nucleosomes, which are eventually positioned ...
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