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Quantum-Mechanical Calculations Of Actinyl And Europium Sorption To Graphene Oxide, Edward Helvenston Aug 2015

Quantum-Mechanical Calculations Of Actinyl And Europium Sorption To Graphene Oxide, Edward Helvenston

All Theses

Quantum-mechanical calculations were performed to model the interactions of U(VI), Np(V), Pu(VI), and Eu(III) with carboxyl and hydroxyl functional groups of graphene oxide (GO). Models were created for sorption to a single sheet of GO. For U(VI) and Eu(III), models were also created for sorption to two sheets to evaluate the possibility of cation-induced GO aggregation via cation cross-linking of GO sheets. The quantum-mechanical calculations were used to characterize the sorption reactions in terms of energetics and vibrational peak shifts. The calculations performed used Gaussian09 with the B3LYP hybrid functional. Sorption was seen as favorable for all cations considered; the …


Investigation Of Electrical And Magneto Transport Properties Of Reduced Graphene Oxide Thin Films, Ariful Haque Jul 2015

Investigation Of Electrical And Magneto Transport Properties Of Reduced Graphene Oxide Thin Films, Ariful Haque

MSU Graduate Theses

Large area uniform thin films of reduced graphene oxide (RGO) was synthesized by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique. A number of structural properties including the defect density, average size of sp2 clusters, and degree of reduction were investigated by Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. The temperature dependent (5K - 350K) four terminal electrical transport property measurement confirms variable range hopping and thermally activated transport mechanism of the charge carriers at low (5K - 210K) and high temperature (210K - 350K) regions, respectively. The calculated localization length, density of states (DOS) near Fermi level (EF), hopping energy, and Arrhenius …


Evaporative Vapor Deposition For Depositing 2d Materials, Kevin Gleason Jan 2015

Evaporative Vapor Deposition For Depositing 2d Materials, Kevin Gleason

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The development of a new deposition technique called evaporative vapor deposition (EVD) is reported, allowing deposition and formation of atomically-thin, large area materials on arbitrary substrates. This work focuses on the highly popular monolayer material – graphene oxide (GO). A droplet of a GO solution is formed on a heated polymer substrate, and maintained at steady-state evaporation (all droplet parameters are held constant over time). The polymer substrate is laser patterned to control the droplet's contact line dynamics and the droplet's contact angle is maintained using a computer controlled syringe pump. A room temperature silicon wafer is translated through the …