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Experimental Physical Chemistry Applications For Material Science: The Neutron Vibrational Spectrum Of Biaxially-Oriented Pet And Hkust-1 As A Qcm-Based Ethylene Sensor, Zachary D. Stroupe
Experimental Physical Chemistry Applications For Material Science: The Neutron Vibrational Spectrum Of Biaxially-Oriented Pet And Hkust-1 As A Qcm-Based Ethylene Sensor, Zachary D. Stroupe
Doctoral Dissertations
This work is divided into two comprehensive subjects exploiting fundamental properties of physical chemistry to understand applied materials. The two subjects will be: the inelastic neutron scattering of thin polyethylene terephthalate (PET) films and the design and development of a quartz crystal microbalance-based ethylene detector. For the work involving the thin films, the inelastic neutron scattering (INS) was accomplished using the high flux of the VISION vibrational spectrometer at the Spallation Neutron Source yielding the highest quality data currently available. The torsional vibrational modes of biaxially-oriented PET (bPET) will be reported with the help of DFT calculations to aid in …