Submissions from 2022
Electrostatic energy of interaction between uniformly charged hemispherical surfaces, Orion Ciftja
Exact classical spin dynamics of high spin nanoscale molecular magnetic clusters, Orion Ciftja
Integrals of Legendre polynomials over half range and their relation to the electrostatic potential in hemispherical geometry, Orion Ciftja
Two-dimensional finite quantum Hall clusters of electrons with anisotropic features, Orion Ciftja
Variation of the elliptical Fermi surface for a two-dimensional electron gas with anisotropic mass, Orion Ciftja
Detailed Study of an Ultra-Small Pauli Crystal, Orion Ciftja and Josep Batle
Submissions from 2021
Vanillin based polymers: V. Poly(hydrovanilloin–urethane), Ananda S. Amarasekara and Rocio Garcia-Obregon
Conversion of levulinic acid and cellulose to γ-valerolactone over Raney-Ni catalyst using formic acid as a hydrogen donor, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Yen Maroney Lawrence, Anthony D. Fernandez, Tony L. Grady, and Bernard Wiredu
Pyrolysis Route for the Conversion of Bacterial Cellulose to Graphene Oxide, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Deping Wang
Interaction energy between two identical hemispherical surfaces with uniform surface charge density, Brent Ciftja, Cal Colbert-Pollack, Orion Ciftja, and Lindsey Littlejohn
Results for the electrostatic potential of a uniformly charged hemispherical surface, Brent Ciftja, Cal Colbert-Pollack, Orion Ciftja, and Lindsey Littlejohn
Electrostatic potential energy stored in a hemispherical surface with uniform surface charge distribution, Orion Ciftja
Energy stored and capacitance of a circular parallel plate nanocapacitor, Orion Ciftja
Fourier transform method for the electrostatic self-energy of a solid sphere with uniform volume charge density, Orion Ciftja
Integer quantum Hall effect with an anisotropic Coulomb interaction potential, Orion Ciftja
A two-dimensional electron gas suspended above a neutralizing background, Orion Ciftja, Josep Batle, and Miquel Pons-Viver
New solution method for the problem of a uniformly charged straight wire, Orion Ciftja and Brent Ciftja
Catalytic upgrading of biomass derived furans, Fang Deng and Ananda S. Amarasekara
Interactions of Cellulose Model Compound D-Cellobiose with Selected Metal Chlorides in Water: Identification of Chelating Oxygen Atoms, Harshica Fernando and Ananda S. Amarasekara
Radiosynthesis of 5-[18f]fluoro-1,2,3-triazoles through aqueous iodine–[18f]fluorine exchange reaction, Xiang Zhang, Falguni Basuli, Sameh Abdelwahed, Tadhg Begley, and Rolf Swenson
Submissions from 2020
Pd/C catalyzed room-temperature, atmospheric pressure hydrogenation of furanic bio-oils from acidic ionic liquid catalyzed liquefaction of biomass in acetone, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Cristian D. Gutierrez Reyes
Biocatalytic reduction of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-furandimethanol using coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) water, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Cristian D. Gutierrez Reyes, and Rocio Garcia Obregon
Acidic ionic liquid catalyzed liquefactions of corn cobs and switchgrass in acetone: Analysis of bio-oils using LC-MS and GC-MS, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Cristian D.Gutierrez Reyes
A comparison of kombucha SCOBY bacterial cellulose purification methods, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Deping Wang, and Tony L. Grady
Minimum and maximum energy for crystals of magnetic dipoles, Josep Batle and Orion Ciftja
Energy of a finite three-dimensional electron gas of spinless electrons, O. Ciftja
Energy of a finite three-dimensional electron gas of spinless electrons, O. Ciftja
A uniformly charged circular disk with an anisotropic Coulomb interaction potential, Orion Ciftja
Detailed solution of the problem of Landau states in a symmetric gauge, Orion Ciftja
Electrostatic potential of a uniformly charged square plate at an arbitrary point in space, Orion Ciftja
Energy of the Bose Laughlin quantum Hall state of few electrons at half filling of the lowest Landau level, Orion Ciftja
Results for charged disks with different forms of surface charge density, Orion Ciftja
Results for the ground state energy of a finite system of dipoles in a one-dimensional crystal lattice, Orion Ciftja
Results for the electrostatic potential of a uniformly charged square plate, Orion Ciftja and Brent Ciftja
Iron(0)-Catalyzed Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Switchgrass: the Effects of Co-Catalysts and Reductive Conditions, Fang Deng and Ananda S. Amarasekara
Iron based catalysts in biomass processing, Hongbo Du, Fang Deng, Raghava R. Kommalapati, and Ananda S. Amarasekara
Submissions from 2019
Charge-transfer or excimeric state? Exploring the nature of the excited state in cofacially arrayed polyfluorene derivatives, Ainur Abzhanova, Lena V. Ivanova, Denan Wang, Tushar S. Navale, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, Maxim V. Ivanov, Sergey Lindeman, Rajendra Rathore, and Scott A. Reid
Ionic Liquids in Biomass Processing, Ananda S. Amarasekara
A comparison of homogeneous and heterogeneous Brønsted acid catalysts in the reactions of meso-erythritol with aldehyde/ketones, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Shahrukh R. Ali, Harshica Fernando, Victoria Sena, and Tatiana V. Timofeeva
Acidic ionic liquid catalyzed liquefaction of untreated switchgrass biomass in acetone and Pd-La(OTf)3 catalyzed reduction of the products, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Fang Deng
Single reagent treatment and degradation of switchgrass using iron(III)chloride: The effects on hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Fang Deng
Vanillin-based polymers: IV. Hydrovanilloin epoxy resins, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Rocio Garcia-Obergon, and Audie K. Thompson
BrØnsted acidic ionic liquid catalyzed one-pot conversion of cellulose to furanic biocrude and identification of the products using LC-MS, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Cristian D. Gutierrez Reyes
Kinetics and mechanism of the solid-acid catalyzed one-pot conversion of d-fructose to 5, 5′-[oxybis(methylene)]bis[2-furaldehyde] in dimethyl sulfoxide, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Loc H. Nguyen, Hongbo Du, and Raghava R. Kommalapati
Homogeneous phase synthesis of chitosan silica hybrid materials in ionic liquid medium and adsorption of Fe(III) from aqueous solutions, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Deping Wang
Solid acid catalyzed aldol dimerization of levulinic acid for the preparation of C10 renewable fuel and chemical feedstocks, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Bernard Wiredu, Tony L. Grady, Rocio Garcia Obregon, and Davor Margetić
Hydrolysis and interactions of D-cellobiose with polycarboxylic acids, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Bernard Wiredu, and Yen Maroney Lawrence
Hypergeometric solutions for Coulomb self-energy model of uniformly charged hollow cylinder, Josep Batle, Orion Ciftja, and Tibor K. Pogány
Electrostatic interaction energy between two coaxial parallel uniformly charged disks, Orion Ciftja
Equivalence of an infinite one-dimensional ionic crystal to a simple electrostatic model, Orion Ciftja
Exact results for a quantum Hall state with broken rotational symmetry, Orion Ciftja
Impact of an elliptical Fermi surface deformation on the energy of a spinless two-dimensional electron gas, Orion Ciftja
Origin of the anomalous size-dependent increase of capacitance in boron nitride-graphene nanocapacitors, Orion Ciftja
Statistical Interaction Description of Pauli Crystals in 2D Systems of Harmonically Confined Fermions, Orion Ciftja and Josep Batle
Geometrical interpretation of the electrostatic potential created by a uniformly charged straight wire, Orion Ciftja, Kevonnie Beharie, and Trevannie Beharie
On a solution method for the bound energy states of a particle in a one-dimensional symmetric finite square well potential, Orion Ciftja and Brett Johnston
Submissions from 2018
Acid catalyzed aldol condensations of ketones with glyoxylic acid: A simple single-step synthesis of 4-oxo-2,5-heptdienedioic acids, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Uyen Ha
Renewable polymers: Synthesis and characterization of poly(levulinic acid–pentaerythritol), Ananda S. Amarasekara, Uyen Ha, and Nnaemeka C. Okorie
Raney-Ni catalyzed conversion of levulinic acid to 5-methyl-2-pyrrolidone using ammonium formate as the H and N source, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Yen Maroney Lawrence
1-(Alkylsulfonic)-3-methylimidazolium chloride BrÖnsted acidic ionic liquid catalyzed hydrogen peroxide oxidations of biomass derived furan aldehydes, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Nnaemeka C. Okorie
Classical magnetism and an integral formula involving modified bessel functions, Orion Ciftja
Emergence of liquid crystalline order in the lowest Landau level of a quantum Hall system with internal anisotropy, Orion Ciftja
Properties of Quantum Dots and Their Biological Applications, Orion Ciftja
Coulomb potential and energy of a uniformly charged cylindrical shell, Orion Ciftja and Josep Batle
Interaction energy of a pair of identical coplanar uniformly charged nanodisks, Orion Ciftja and Isaac Berry
An Aminoimidazole Radical Intermediate in the Anaerobic Biosynthesis of the 5,6-Dimethylbenzimidazole Ligand to Vitamin B12, Derek M. Gagnon, Troy A. Stich, Angad P. Mehta, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, Tadhg P. Begley, and R. David Britt
Vortical structures for nanomagnetic memory induced by dipole-dipole interaction in monolayer disks, Zhaosen Liu, Orion Ciftja, Xichao Zhang, Yan Zhou, and Hou Ian
Submissions from 2017
Renewable polymers: Synthesis and characterization of poly(4-ketopimelic acid-glycerol), Ananda S. Amarasekara, Muhammad A. Hasan, and Eve Larkin
Sulfuric acid and Amberlyst-H+ catalyzed condensation reactions of renewable keto acids with paraformaldehyde: Synthesis of a new dispiro bis-lactone ring system 2,9,13-trioxadispiro[4.1.4.3]tetradecane-3,6,10-trione, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Uyen Ha, Marina S. Fonari, Shabari Nath Bejagam, and Davor Margetić
A two-step efficient preparation of a renewable dicarboxylic acid monomer 5,5′-[oxybis(methylene)]bis[2-furancarboxylic acid] from D-fructose and its application in polyester synthesis, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Loc H Nguyen, Nnaemeka C. Okorie, and Saad M Jamal
Acidic ionic liquid polymers: poly(bis-imidazolium-p-phenylenesulfonic acid) and applications as catalysts in the preparation of 1-amidoalkyl-2-naphthols, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Jennifer Nguyen, and Ashfaqur Razzaq
Equilibrium charge distribution on a finite straight one-dimensional wire, Josep Batle, Orion Ciftja, Soliman Abdalla, Mohamed Elhoseny, Majid Alkhambashi, and Ahmed Farouk
Pauli structures arising from confined particles interacting via a statistical potential, Josep Batle, Orion Ciftja, Ahmed Farouk, Majid Alkhambashi, and Soliman Abdalla
Equilibrium and uniform charge distribution of a classical two-dimensional system of point charges with hard-wall confinement, Josep Batle, Orion Ciftja, Mosayeb Naseri, Mahmood Ghoranneviss, Ahmed Farouk, and Mohamed Elhoseny
Coulomb self-energy integral of a uniformly charged d-cube: A physically-based method for approximating multiple integrals, Josep Batle, Orion Ciftja, Mosayeb Naseri, Mahmood Ghoranneviss, Koji Nagata, and Tadao Nakamura
Anisotropic electronic states in the fractional quantum Hall regime, Orion Ciftja
Anisotropic magnetoresistance and piezoelectric effect in GaAs Hall samples, Orion Ciftja
A result for the Coulomb electrostatic energy of a uniformly charged disk, Orion Ciftja
Cyclotron motion of a charged particle with anisotropic mass, Orion Ciftja, Victoria Livingston, and Elsa Thomas
Overview of computational methods in nanotechnology, Orion Ciftja and Sarhan M. Musa
Results for the energy of a finite one-dimensional ionic crystal, Orion Ciftja, Scott Rossel, Shawn Smith, and Philip Thomas
Hückel theory + reorganization energy = Marcus-Hush theory: Breakdown of the 1/n trend in π-conjugated poly-p-phenylene cation radicals is explained, Maxim V. Ivanov, Marat R. Talipov, Anitha Boddeda, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, and Rajendra Rathore
A quantum simulation approach for a three-dimensional Ising spin model - Comparison to mean field theory, Zhaosen Liu and Orion Ciftja
Interplay of Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya and dipole-dipole interactions and their joint effects upon vortical structures on nanodisks, Zhaosen Liu, Orion Ciftja, and Hou Ian
Origin of the Regioselectivity in the Aldol Condensation between Hydroxymethylfurfural and Levulinic Acid: A DFT Investigation, Liwei Zhao, Nnenna Elechi, Richard Qian, Timila B. Singh, Ananda S. Amarasekara, and Hua Jun Fan
Submissions from 2016
Acidic Ionic Liquids, Ananda S. Amarasekara
Acid Catalyzed Competitive Esterification and Ketalization of Levulinic Acid with 1,2 and 1,3-Diols: The Effect of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysts, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Moriam A. Animashaun
Vanillin based polymers: III. Electrochemical dimerization of vanillin revisited and synthesis of hydrovanilloin–formaldehyde polymer, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Muhammad A. Hasan
A two step method for the preparation of carbamate cross-linked cellulose films using an ionic liquid and their water retention properties, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Muhammad A. Hasan, and Uyen Ha
Acid catalyzed condensation of levulinic acid with glyoxylic acid: Synthesis of 1-methyl-2,8-dioxabicyclo[3.3.0]oct-4-ene-3,7-dione, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Uyen Ha
Chemocatalytic hydrolysis of cellulose at 37 °c, 1 atm, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Bernard Wiredu
Interactions of d-cellobiose with selected chloride salts: A 13C NMR and FT-IR study, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Bernard Wiredu
The effect of manganese(II) chloride as a co-catalyst on cellobiose hydrolysis in dilute aqueous sulfuric acid and acidic ionic liquid mediums, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Bernard Wiredu
Anisotropic Quantum Hall Liquid States with No Translational Invariance in the Lowest Landau Level, Orion Ciftja
Electric field controlled spin interference in a system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, Orion Ciftja
Layer-dependent energy of two parallel charged nano-layers, Orion Ciftja
Stored Coulomb Self-Energy of a Uniformly Charged Rectangular Plate, Orion Ciftja
Magnetic properties of a classical XY spin dimer in a "planar" magnetic field, Orion Ciftja and Dode Prenga