2017 Graduate Alumni
Yara Kadria
Advanced Quantitative Analysis of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Samples (Thesis Advisor: Bruce Weisman)
Amanda Acevedo-Jake
Structure, Design and Applications of Collagen-like Peptides (Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Hartgerink)
Yao Cui
Molecular Plasmonics (Thesis Advisor: Peter Nordlander)
Michael McClain
Size and Shape Control of Colloidal Al Nanocrystals for UV Plasmonics Applications (Thesis Advisor: Naomi Halas)
Zhipeng Wang
Understanding Functional Roles of Transcription Factor Decoys in Gene Regulation via Mathematical Modeling (Thesis Advisor: Peter Wolynes)
Bin Huang
Decoding biological gene regulatory networks by quantitative modeling (Thesis Advisor: Jose Onuchic)
Katherine Clements (Jochim)
Charge Pairs and Mutations in Collagen Mimetic Peptides (Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Hartgerink)
Amanda Moore (Wilson)
Development of Multidomain Peptide Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Applications (Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Hartgerink)
Yufan Zhang
Developing Multiple Dimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy for Molecular Conformation Determinations and New Catalysts Design (Thesis Advisors: Junrong Zheng)
Kourtney Wright
Functionalization of Carbon Materials with Metals (Thesis Advisor: Andrew Barron)
Craig Keene
Development of New Methods for the Synthesis of Novel Biaryls (Thesis Advisor: Laszlo Kurti)
Amirhossein Aliyan
Nanomaterials in Diverse Dimensions: Synthesis, Properties and Applications (Thesis Advisor: Angel Marti)
Yilun (Ethan) Li
Synthesis, Structure and Properties of Various Carbon Nanomaterials (Thesis Advisor: James Tour)
Matthew Minus
Tuning Rh(II) probes for the intracellular inhibition of STAT3 (Thesis Advisor: Zachary Ball)
Ching-Wei Lin
Advanced Optical Detection of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Biomedical Applications and Photophysical Studies (Thesis Advisor: Bruce Weisman)
Ruquan (Moon) Ye
Photoactive metal complexes for studying amyloid-b aggregates (Thesis Advisor: James Tour)
Maria Kochugaeva
Theoretical investigation of protein search for targets on DNA (Thesis Advisor: Anatoly Kolomeisky)
Samuel Gotthei
Fractal Nanoparticle Plasmonics and Rotational Spectroscopy as an Analytical Tool for Photocatalysis (Thesis Advisor: Naomi Halas)
Brian Sirovetz
Protein folding, unfolding, and phase diagrams with coarse-grained models (Thesis Advisor: Peter Wolynes)
Lizanne Nilewski (Koch)
Carbon nanomaterials and their small molecule analogues for biomedical applications (Thesis Advisor: James Tour)
Ruocheng (Ronnie) Yu
Synthesis of anticancer agents: 15-deoxy-15-fluoro-Δ12-prostaglandin J3 and gukulenin monomeric units (Thesis Advisor: KC Nicolaou)
Anneli Joplin (Hoggard)
Using Correlated Photothermal Absorption Spectroscopy to Understand the Non-Radiative Properties of Single Metal Nanostructures (Thesis Advisor: Stephan Link)
Andrew Metzger
Synthesis and Applications of Carbon Materials (Thesis Advisor: James Tour)