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Title: Design and Modulation of Novel Chemical Probes for RNA SHAPE Analysis: Water Soluble Isatoic Anhydrides and Nicotinic Acid Imidazolides
Author: Fessler, Adam
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Biology
Description: The growing interest in RNA biology, along with an expansion in computational capabilities, throughput, and sensitivity has provided researchers new tools to probe RNA. RNA selective 2′-hydroxy acylation analyzed by primer extension (SHAPE) utiliz...

Title: Electrochromic, Electrofluorochromic, and Photoactive Properties of Thiazolothiazole-Based, Multifunctional Materials
Author: Adams, Tyler
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Nanoscience
Description: There have been an increasing number of materials developed that show multifunctional chromogenic properties (such as electrochromism, electrofluorochromism, or photochromism), but to date, few materials have shown all three properties. Materials ...

Title: Employing Surface Plasmon Resonances to Boost Effectiveness of Multiple Exciton Generation in Lead-Based Quantum Dots
Author: Dipple, Kathleen
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience
Description: Harvesting the sun’s energy at a high efficiency and low cost is a vital step towards replacing fossil fuels. Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are promising materials that have great potential for solar applications due to their size dependent optical...

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, photophysical characterization, and application of asymmetric thiazolothiazoles as molecular sensors
Author: Sayresmith, Nickolas
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Chemistry
Description: Small molecule fluorophores are critical for fluorescence spectroscopy, and enable the measurement of a wide array of biological processes and dynamics. For many biological sensing applications, the overall efficacy of the fluorophore is closely c...

Title: UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF PERIPHERAL ALKYL SUBSTITUENTS ON EXCITON DIFFUSION PROPERTIES OF PORPHYRIN THIN FILMS FOR ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS
Author: Kaushal, Meesha
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Chemistry
Description: Understanding exciton diffusion is a crucial step in the engineering and fabrication of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices. We studied a variety of organic dyes in our research lab including various derivatives of carboalkoxyphenylporphyrins in so...