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Title: Induction of cytokines by nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) depends on the type of delivery carrier
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Avila, Yelixza I.
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Recent insights into the immunostimulatory properties of nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) have demonstrated that variations in the shape, size, and composition lead to distinct patterns in their immunostimulatory properties. While most of these ...

Title: Influence of Functional Groups on the Photodynamic Therapy and Internalization of Porphyrin Modified Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS) Molecules in Mammalian Cells
Author: Johnston, Alexis
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Chemistry, Inorganic, Chemistry, Organic
Description: Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS) molecules are highly ordered organic- inorganic hybrid materials with a cage like core of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms surrounded by eight pedant organic residues. These compounds are well-define...

Title: Investigations into the Reactivity and Structure of Organocuprates
Author: Morse, Jared
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: While organocuprate reagents have been a staple in synthetic organic chemistry in the formation of carbon-carbon bonds, there has been a dearth of investigations into its use in forming carbon-heteroatom bonds. In previous cases of complexes betwe...

Title: LOADED AND ELABORATED POLYESTER NANOMATERIALS FOR THE TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASE
Author: Fowler, Anthony
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Nanotechnology
Description: Cancer is not one disease but many. In fact, cancer is a collection of more than 100 different diseases. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States with an estimated 1.7 million new cases expected in 2017 and approximately 60...

Title: Long-term stability, vibrational and optical properties of β-ZnTe(en)0.5 and related organic-inorganic hybrid superlattices
Author: Ye, Tang
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Materials science, Chemistry
Description: Organic-inorganic hybrids may offer material properties enhanced compared to or not available from their inorganic and organic components. However, they are typically less stable and disordered. A group of highly ordered II-VI based hybrid structu...

Title: PENETRATION RESISTANCE OF 4340 STEEL/POLYUREA LAMINATE
Author: Pajjuri, Vishnu Vardhan Kumar
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Military art and science, Chemistry, Polymers
Description: Enhancement of the penetration resistance of materials used in the defense industry is of great interest since such improvements can save human life and can reduce the loss of resources caused by high velocity projectiles penetrating through the w...

Title: Quantum Enhanced Electron Transfer in Coupled Porphyrins
Author: Pedersen, Andrew
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: The role of solar power as a renewable energy source is of ever increasing importance to our future. It is inevitable then that the focus of much research would be looking at nature’s solutions to solar power with photosynthesis. A theoretical pap...

Title: Retinoic acid inducible gene-I mediated detection of bacterial nucleic acids in human microglial cells
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Marriott, Ian, Halman, Justin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Background Bacterial meningitis and meningoencephalitis are associated with devastating neuroinflammation. We and others have demonstrated the importance of glial cells in the initiation of immune responses to pathogens invading the central nervou...

Title: SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL SENSOR FOR NITROAROMATIC MOLECULES
Author: Nesmelov, Andrei
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Organic, Chemistry, Polymers
Description: New conjugated spirosilabifluorene networks have been synthesized and characterized. They exhibit high surface areas, negligible solubility, broad chemical stability, and bright fluorescence. The materials have been analyzed as potential sensors f...

Title: SYNTHESIS AND REACTIVITY OF HETEROCYCLIC THIONE AND SELONE LIGANDS WITH A SATURATED BACKBONE
Author: Patterson, John
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: ABSTRACTJOHN R. PATTERSON Synthesis and Reactivity of Heterocyclic Thione and Selone Ligands with a Saturated Backbone (Under the direction of DR. DANIEL RABINOVICH) The field of coordination chemistry is so pervasive that it finds use in nearly e...

Title: SYNTHESIS AND REACTIVITY STUDIES OF METAL CARBONYL COMPLEXES WITH PYRIDINE/THIONE MIXED-DONOR LIGANDS
Author: Oian, Casey
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: A new synthetic route to o (mercaptoimidazolyl)pyridine ligands (R = Me, Bun) through a neutral intermediate o (imidazolyl)pyridine (o-impy) has been developed. The n-butyl-substituted ligand shows improved solubility in organic solvents. The alky...

Title: SYNTHESIS OF PORPHYRIN-BASED POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSESQUIOXANE MOLECULES FOR IMPROVED PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY OF CANCER CELLS
Author: Siano, Paolo
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS) materials are a class of nanostructured compounds based on Si-O linkages forming a cage with a silicon atom at each vertex, where substituents are bound tetrahedrally determining the physical and chemica...

Title: SYNTHESIS OF THIAZOLOTHIAZOLE FUNCTIONALIZED PORPHYRINS FOR ORGANIC SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS
Author: Grubich, Nicholas
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Chemistry, Chemistry, Organic
Description: Porphyrin light-harvesting systems have recently shown promising solar energy conversion properties in organic photovoltaic devices. Porphyrins, which absorb a broad portion of the solar spectrum and can be easily tuned with peripheral substituent...

Title: Smart-responsive nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) with the potential to modulate immune behavior
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Nucleic acids are programmable and biocompatible polymers that have beneficial uses in nanotechnology with broad applications in biosensing and therapeutics. In some cases, however, the development of the latter has been impeded by the unknown imm...

Title: Special issue nanotechnology to overcome the world's most critical health issues: liposomes and beyond-a themed issue dedicated to Professor Yechezkel Barenholz
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Dobrovolskaia, Marina
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry

Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Electroactive Organosilanes
Author: Lee, David
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: Siloles, or silacyclopentadienes, have unique electronic properties due to interaction between the butadiene π* orbital and the silylene σ* orbital. Consequently they have drawn interest for use in a variety of organic electronic interactions. A s...

Title: Synthesis and Electrochemical Characterization of [3]Radialene-based Catholytes for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries
Author: Turner, Nicholas
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: The unsubstituted [n]radialenes are a unique class of alicyclic hydrocarbons with radiating alkenes. These compounds are typically difficult to handle and polymerize rapidly. A number of stable radialene derivatives that exhibit reversible electro...

Title: Synthesis and Optical Properties of Hybrid Gold Nanoparticles Coupled with Quantum Dots and Porphyrins
Author: Tobias, Andrew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Chemistry, Nanotechnology
Description: Coupling of optically active materials, or chromphores, to plasmonic nanoparticles represents a new research area which has the ability to produce higher efficiency lighting and photovoltaic materials. The main goal of this project was to create n...

Title: Synthesis and Reactivity of Six-Membered N-Heterocyclic Chalcogenones
Author: Flanagan, Jerrod
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Chemistry, Inorganic
Description: The synthesis and coordination chemistry of N-heterocyclic thione (NHT) and selone (NHSe) ligands containing a saturated pyrimidine ring and bulky aromatic substituents on the nitrogen atoms is described in this thesis. To further understand the e...

Title: Synthesis and characterization of single-walled carbon nanotubes for use in water purification
Author: Johnson, Billy
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Nanoscience, Chemistry
Description: As human health concerns over disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in drinking water increase, so does the need to development new materials that remove them rapidly and at high-efficiency. Ion exchange (IEX) is an effective method for the removal of na...