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Understanding the Electrode/Electrolyte Interphase in Magnesium-Ion Electrolytes with Simple Mg Salts

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These past 4 years have been the greatest of learning experience of my life. I had so many highs and lows in both my professional and personal life. The people who I refer to in this section have been of the greatest help for me to achieve my dream of getting a PhD degree. Firstly, I am thankful to University of California Riverside, especially the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department for accepting me as PhD student and letting spent the past 4 years at this facility. I would also like to thank my committee members who has taken time out of their busy schedule to help with my dissertation process, I would like to thank Dr. Vincent Lavallo and his group for your help with synthesizing the carborane electrolytes and helping me understand the chemistry behind synthesizing salts and also distilling solvents. I would like to give a big thank you to my advisor Dr. Juchen Guo. I was in a very bad place mentally when he took me into this lab. He showed great patience helped through the toughest times of my life. I have no doubt in my mind much greater success will be coming your way. His honesty and great work ethic has been a constant inspiration for me to strive to better myself. I only hope I gave you at least 10% of the joy that you have given me over the past 4 years. I would like to thank Dr Alexander Couzis who was my first mentor from CCNY in NY. You encouraged me to chase my dream and guide me out of some tough paths into the right one. I took your advice to go for my “goals” rather than stay for comfort. I’ve been through the least comfortable situations in the past four years and I have come out a better man for it. My lab mates have helped me when in need whether it is something small like check up on an experiment or driving 50 miles to Irvine to help with an experiment. I am very much grateful for all the help I have received from all of you. I would like to thank my undergrad Audrey, who was immense help throughout my PhD. Without, her help most of the work in this thesis wouldn’t have gone this swiftly or this smoothly. I hope you find a job very soon you are a great worker and a friend as well. The most important people who guided me through the past 4 years here in UCR are my friends and my family. I have made some great friends over the past 4 years who helped me learn a lot not just professionally but also personally. Whether it was the soccer, board games, tennis, or playing video games all of you made the graduate school life very enjoyable. Something that kept me going throughout this experience was the constant calls of support from my home. Mom I love you, I hope I made you proud. I didn’t get to be the kind of doctor you wanted me to be. Hopefully this would suffice. Lastly, I would like to thank the latest additions to my personal life my niece Hima and my fiancé Dr. Vijayalakshmi. The last few months have been the hardest and the most stressful I have been through my entire PhD. But, the video calls we have makes start the day with the big smile and positive attitude and it is all down to you. There is a reason I like seeing you all the time because your smiles bring a great calmness in me and makes motivates me to drive forward and look forward to the time when we can be together. Thank you to everyone who have influenced my life one way or another. Every experience I had shaped me to the man I am today, and I am indebted to you all for helping me achieve it.

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