Theses

Theses Richard Flagan Mentored

Name	Year	Thesis
James R. Ouimette	1981	Aerosol Chemical Species Contributions to the Extinction Coefficient.
Dean D. Taylor	1981	Laboratory Studies of Submicron Particle Formation in Pulverized Coal Combustion.
Andrew Pesthy	1983	Aerosol Formation and Growth in Laminar Flow.
Khairul Alam	1984	Nucleation and Condensational Growth of Aerosols: Application to Silicon Production.
Constance Lynn Senior	1984	Submicron Aerosol Formation During Combustion of Pulverized Coal.
Pratim Biswas	1985	Impactors for Aerosol Measurement: Developments and Sampling Biases.
Dale Ross Warren	1986	Nucleation and Growth of Aerosols.
Mark Cohen	1987	Studies of Concentrated Electrolyte Solutions Using the Electrodynamic Balance.
Gideon S. Grader	1987	Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy of a Single Aerosol Particle.
Jin Jwang Wu	1987	Powder Synthesis in Aerosol Reactors.
Carol Leslie Jones Adkins	1988	Use of a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor for the Study of Aqueous Aerosol Chemistry.
Yiannis A. Levendis	1988	A Fundamental Study of Char Oxidation Kinetics Using Model Materials.
Paul Scott Northrop	1988	A Fundamental Study of Char Combustion: Changes in Particle Morphology during Oxidation.
Ranajit (Ron) Sahu	1988	On the Combustion of Bituminous Coal Chars.
Jennifer E. Stern	1988	Aerosol Formation and Growth in Aromatic Hydrocarbon/NOₓ Systems.
Ken Wolfenbarger	1989	Aerosol Data Inversion: Optimal Solutions and Information Content
Hung Viet Nguyen	1990	Powder production in aerosol reactors : particle structure and reactor optimization.
Fangdong Yin	1990	Atmospheric photooxidation of organosulphur compounds.
Suzanne Paulson	1991	Contributions of biogenic and anthropogenic hydrocarbons to photochemical smog formation.
Steven N. Rogak	1991	Aerosol dynamics of agglomerates.
Shih-Chen Wang	1991	Aerosol formation and growth in atmospheric organic/NOx systems.
Brian Wong	1991	The oxidation of individually levitated char particles.
Xiaoming Li	1992	Experimental Studies of Char Oxidation and Fume Formation from Pyrite.
Aaron Rulison	1992	Part 1. Synthesis of ceramic powders by electrospray pyrolysis. Part 2. An approach to interplanetary particle sampling.
Peter Sercel	1992	Semiconductor structures in the quantum size regime.
Barbara Wyslouzil	1992	Aspects of homogeneous nucleation.
Melissa Lunden	1995	Sintering of aerosol agglomerates.
Jean Andino	1996	Experimental and theoretical studies of reactions important in photochemical smog : aromatics and alkanes.
Hali Forstner	1996	Aerosol formation from atmospheric hydrocarbon photooxidation.
Lynn Russell	1996	The Physics and Chemistry of Marine Aerosols
Paul Drayton	1997	Experimental and theoretical studies of aerosol agglomerates.
Richard McClurg	1997	Homogeneous nucleation theory.
Renato P. Camata	1998	Aerosol synthesis and characterization of silicon nanocrystals.
Jay Odum	1998	Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation and Gas/Aerosol Partitioning.
Patrick Y Chuang	1999	Experimental and theoretical studies of cloud condensation nuclei.
Denis Phares	1999	Particle resuspension from surfaces.
Don Collins	2000	Characterization of the Physical Properties of Atmospheric Aerosols through Airborne Sampling.
James Smith	2000	A. Computational chemistry applied to the analysis of air pollution reaction mechanisms ; B. Fundamental studies of droplet evaporation and discharge dynamics in electrospray ionization.
Elizabeth Boer-Duchemin	2001	Synthesis, Passivation and Charging of Silicon Nanocrystals.
David Cocker	2001	Chamber investigations of secondary organic aerosol formation.
Michele Ostraat	2001	Synthesis and Characterization of Aerosol Silicon Nanoparticle Nonvolatile Floating Gate Memory Devices.
Jian Wang	2003	Instrument Development and Characterization of Atmospheric Aerosol Physical Properties Through Airborne Measurement.
Timothy M. VanReken	2004	Understanding the Relationship between Aerosols and Clouds: Field Investigations and Instrument Development.
Roya Bahreini	2005	Studies with the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer.
Dean Holunga	2006	Aerosol Technologies for Fabrication, Collection, and Deposition of Engineered Nanoparticles.
Adam Olsen	2006	Scanning Activity Gravimetric Analysis (SAGA) of Aqueous Polyethylene Oxide.
Tracey Rissman	2006	Theory, Field Measurements, and Laboratory Experiments Concerning the Cloud Condensation Nucleus Properties of Organic and/or Insoluble Aerosol Components.
Varuntida Varutbangkul	2006	Ambient and Laboratory Studies of Aerosol Size Distributions and Hygroscopicity.
Nga Lee Ng	2007	Chamber Studies of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation.
Armin Sorooshian	2008	Aerosol Composition and Hygroscopicity Studies: Instrument Development/Characterization, Ambient and Laboratory Measurements, and Modeling.
Shane Murphy	2009	Analysis of the Chemical Composition of Atmospheric and Chamber Generated Aerosol Using Mass Spectrometry.
Arthur Chan	2010	Chamber Studies and Modeling of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation.
Puneet Chhabra	2011	Studies of Chamber Organic Aerosol using an Aerodyne High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer.
Scott Hersey	2011	Studies of Aerosol Composition and Hygroscopicity.
Man Nin Chan	2012	Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Organic Aerosol Composition: Laboratory and Ambient.
Andrew J. Downard	2012	Classification of Sub-10 nm Aerosol: Theory, Instrument Development, and Experiment.
Jason Gamba	2012	The Role of Transport Phenomena in Whispering Gallery Mode Optical Biosensor Performance.
Xerxes López-Yglesias	2012	Physical Investigations of Small Particles: (I) Aerosol Particle Charging and Flux Enhancement and (II) Whispering Gallery Mode Sensing.
Andrew Metcalf	2012	Atmospheric Black Carbon: Measurements in the Los Angeles Atmosphere and Aging by Condensation of Organic Aerosol.
Jill Suzanne Craven	2013	Studies of Ambient and Chamber Aerosol Composition Using the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer.
Matthew Mitchell Coggon	2016	Field and Laboratory Studies of Atmospheric Organic Aerosol.
Wilton Mui	2017	Development and Applications of Opposed Migration Aerosol Classifiers (OMACs).
Paula Popescu	2017	An Optofluidic Ring Resonator Platform for Rapid and Robust Sensing.
Huajun Mai	2018	Scanning Electrical Mobility Methods for Aerosol Characterization.
Amanda Grantz Pansing	2019	Aerosol Particle Measurements: Strategies for Health-Relevant Data Collection and Analysis.
Yuanlong Huang	2019	Development of Methods to Study Secondary Organic Aerosol.
Weimeng (Stephanie) Kong	2021	Nanometer-sized Aerosol Particles in the Atmosphere: Measurement, Analysis, and Impact.
Benjamin Laccetti	2021	Therapeutic Microparticles and Biolistic Drug-Delivery to the Cornea.
Ryan Ward	2025	Observational and Computational Studies of Atmospheric Particle Formation.