MSE Doctoral Dissertations - 2016
Karina Lara Santos Assis
Heat Transfer Through Mold Fluxes: A New Approach to Measure Thermal Properties of Slags
Advisor: Professor P. Chris Pistorius
Michael Chapman
SEM Technique Development for Exploring Martensitic Phase Transformations in Multi-Variant Shape Memory Alloys
Advisor: Professor Marc De Graef
Brian Decost
Applied Computer Vision Methods for Microstructure Classification and Characterization
Advisor: Professor Elizabeth A. Holm
Rachel Ferebee
Elucidation of the Structure Formation of Polymer-Conjugated Proteins in Solution and Block Copolymer Templates
Advisor: Professor Michael Bockstaller
David Gildemeister
The Microstructure Evolution in High-Solute Aluminum Alloy Ingots and its Effect on Hot Cracking
Advisor: Professor P. Chris Pistorius
James Glickstein
Computational Investigations of Photocatalytic Surfaces Exhibiting Spatially Selective Reactivity
Advisors: Professors Gregory Rohrer and Paul Salvador
Brian Gockel
Constitutive Response of a Near-Alpha Titanium Alloy as a Function of Temperature and Strain Rate
Advisor: Professor Anthony D. Rollett
Philip Goins
The Material Point Monte Carlo Model for Microstructural Evolution
Advisor: Professor Elizabeth A. Holm
Jonathan Humberson
The Motion Mechanism and Thermal Behavior of Sigma 3 Grain Boundaries
Advisor: Professor Elizabeth A. Holm
Megha Jampani
Increased Use of Natural Gas in Blast Furnace Iron-Making
Advisor: Professor P. Chris Pistorius
Luke Klosterman
Deposition, Oxidation, and Adhesion Mechanisms of Conformal Polydopamine Films
Advisor: Professor Christopher Bettinger
Jonghan Kwon
Electron Microscopy Based Characterization of Resistive Switches
Advisor: Professors Yoosuf Picard and Marek Skowronski
Alex Leary
Mechanical Processing of Soft Magnetic Nanocomposites
Advisor: Professor Michael McHenry
Bongjoon Lee
Analysis of the Kinetics of Filler Segregation in Granular Block Copolymer Microstructure
Advisor: Professor Michael Bockstaller
Evan Lieberman
Simulation of Void Nucleation in Single-Phase Copper Polycrystals
Advisor: Professor Anthony Rollett
Haoyuan Mu
Reduction of CaO and MgO by Al in Steel and Inclusion Modification
Advisors: Professors Richard. J. Fruehan and Bryan A. Webler
Carolyn Norwood
The Effect of Nickel Content on the Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of a High Toughness Secondary Hardening Steel
Advisor: Professor Warren Garrison
Yisi Zhu
Effect of the Surface and Interface Electric Potential on the Photochemical Reactivity of Transition Metal Oxides
Advisors: Professors Gregory Rohrer and Paul Salvador