Alumni
Congratulations to the graduates of the Materials Science and Engineering PhD program, listed here with the title of their dissertation.
2023
Xiuyu Jin
- Project Title:
- Polymer grafting for inorganic nanoparticle surface functionalization and stabilization
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Advisors:
- Haifeng Gao, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Na Wei, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Suporna Paul
- Project Title:
- Optically tunable sensing performance of metal oxide composites for the detection of toxic industrial chemicals at room temperature
- Department:
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Advisors:
- Nosang Myung, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Jennifer Schaefer, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Bingxin Yang
- Project Title:
- Functionalized metal oxide semiconductor nanofibers based electronic-nose (E-nose)
- Department:
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Advisors:
- Nosang Myung, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Yanliang Zhang, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
2022
Robert Neal
- Project Title:
- Advances in catalysis and functional surfaces utilizing plasmonic noble metal nanomaterials
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Svetlana Neretina, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
2021
Trevor DeMille
- Project Title:
- On the synthesis and plasmonics of surface-truncated noble metal nanostructures for on-chip nanogap engineering
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Svetlana Neretina, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Arin Preston
- Project Title:
- Synthesis, shape control, and preservation of noble metal plasmonic nanostructures
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Svetlana Neretina, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering