Expanded Aromatic Monomers for Functional Porous Polymers
EXPANDED AROMATIC MONOMERS FOR FUNCTIONAL POROUS POLYMERS by Arosha Aruni Kumari Karunathilake APPROVED BY SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE: ___________________________________________ Dr. Ronald A. Smaldone, Chair ___________________________________________ Dr. Michael C. Biewer ___________________________________________ Dr. John W. Sibert ___________________________________________ Dr. Yves J. Chabal Copyright 2017 Arosha Aruni Kumari Karunathilake All Rights Reserved To my loving parents and to my loving husband, Eranda EXPANDED AROMATIC MONOMERS FOR FUNCTIONAL POROUS POLYMERS by AROSHA ARUNI KUMARI KARUNATHILAKE, BS DISSERTATION Presented to the Faculty of The University of Texas at Dallas in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN CHEMISTRY THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS May 2017 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First and foremost, I would like to acknowledge my research advisor and mentor, Dr. Ronald A. Smaldone, for his endless scientific guidance, unwavering support and enthusiasm throughout the years. His guidance and encouragement were always behind my success. I thank members of my supervisory committee Dr. Michael C. Biewer, Dr. John W. Sibert and Dr. Yves J. Chabal for their constructive advice and new ideas. Their advice and comments helped me to add value to my research work and to come up with high quality outputs. I respect and appreciate all my colleagues from the Smaldone group, both past and present: Dr. Christina Thompson for getting me started in the lab and introducing me to projects, Dr. Sumudu Wijenayake for enduring friendship and technical expertise, Fei Li for his support and encouragement at my early years, Sampath Alhakoon for his valuable discussions and always being there to help me, Gayan Adikari for his friendship, support and encouragement, Yinhuwan Xie for positive attitude and sense of humor, Vicky, Josh, Daniel and Grant for their helpful nature and company.
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