Ph.D. in Chemistry, Mississippi State University, 2009

``Assessment of the Performance of DFT and DFT-D Methods for Describing Distance Dependence of Hydrogen-Bonded Interactions,'' K. S. Thanthiriwatte, E. G. Hohenstein, L. A. Burns, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 7, 88-96 (2011) (doi: 10.1021/ct100469b)

``Potential Energy Curves for Cation--π Interactions: Off-Axis Configurations Are Also Attractive,'' M. S. Marshall, R. P. Steele, K. S. Thanthiriwatte, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Phys. Chem. A 113, 13628-13632 (2009) (doi: 10.1021/jp906086x)