Interest groups have played a dominant if not determinative role in the "greening of America." Thus, that Lettie Wenner, a political scientist who has devoted much of her career to studying environmental issues (The ...

Historically, medical therapy for ulcerative colitis (UC) was limited to corticosteroids. Excitingly, over the past just 1-2 decades, the options for medical therapy have expanded and include biologics and small molecules, ...

The oxides of rare-earth elements (rare-earth sesquioxide: RE2O3) are known for their optical and dielectric properties. Europium oxide is known for characteristic red luminescence and gadolinium oxide has excellent ...

Colloid quantum dots (QDs) are semiconductor nanocrystals that can be tuned to emit specific wavelengths of light based upon their size. Maintaining long-term brightness of QDs is crucial towards their applications. Achieving ...

This dissertation is mainly focused on the femtosecond pump probe spectroscopy of the (6, 5) single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). There are three advantages in this experiment, first, we upgrade the optical parametric ...

Three previously unreported photo-carrier relaxation pathways are presented and discussed in GaAs-based systems. In bulk GaAs, a transient bleach of the spin-split exciton transition 1s->2p is reported following photo-excitation ...

Zinc oxide is a wide band gap (3.37 eV) semiconductor with a high exciton binding energy (60 meV), of interest for optoelectronic applications due to both its ultraviolet (UV) and visible emissions. This dissertation shows ...

Traditional amide synthesis employs a nucleophilic amine, which is reacted with an electrophilic activated carboxylic acid or carboxylic acid surrogate. Recently, colleagues in the Johnston lab introduced an unconventional ...