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Title: Blinking Correlation in Nanocrystal Quantum Dots Probed with Novel Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy Methods
Author: Hefti, Ryan
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Physics
Description: Semiconductor quantum dots have a vast array of applications: as fluorescent labels in biological systems, as physical or chemical sensors, as components in photovoltaic technology, and in display devices. An attribute of nearly every quantum dot ...

Title: Characterization of Dynamic and Functional Nucleic Acid Based Systems
Author: Beasock, Damian
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience
Description: Nucleic acids are highly integrated into molecular biology and exhibit very interesting character. They have immense engineering potential to improve human health and influence molecular systems. Consequently, these biopolymers are the quintessent...

Title: Chemoenzymatic Preparation of Probes for in vitro and Cellular Elucidation of Complex Bacteria Polysaccharides
Author: Reid, Amanda
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology, Biochemistry, Analytical chemistry
Description: Bacteria play a major role in our health and wellbeing. The microbe-host interaction is often mediated by sugar polymers at the cell surface. An incredibly diverse amount of glycan variation exists throughout these structures, which makes identifi...

Title: Development of Silica Based Nanoparticles for Multimodal Therapeutic Delivery
Author: Vadarevu, Hemapriyadarshini
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience
Description: Chronic diseases like cancer are characterized by complex interactions between multiple pathways leading to treatment resistance and invasiveness. Repeated cycles of cytotoxic monotherapies are susceptible to drug resistance induced by the upregul...

Title: ESSENTIAL DYNAMICS OF PROTEINS USING GEOMETRICAL SIMULATIONS AND SUBSPACE ANALYSIS
Author: David, Charles
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Bioinformatics, Biophysics
Description: Essential dynamics is the application of principal component analysis to a dynamic trajectory derived from a simulation protocol in order to extract biologically relevant information contained in the high dimensional data. In this work, we apply t...

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: Immunostimulatory Properties of Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles
Author: Halman, Justin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience
Description: Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) are ubiquitous biomolecules found throughout all living organisms. They can act as genetic information storage and messengers, enzymes, molecular switches, and much more. Although DNA is used almost exclusively for its ...

Title: Microspherical Photonics for Enhancing Resolution of Optical Microscopy and Sensitivity of Focal Plane Arrays
Author: Brettin, Aaron
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: It is shown that the resolution of virtual images of dye-doped dielectric nanospheres obtained through dielectric microspheres can be increased beyond the classical diffraction limit by decreasing the period of nanoplasmonic array used for localiz...

Title: SUBSURFACE THERMAL COAGULATION OF TISSUES USING NEAR INFRARED LASERS
Author: Chang, Chun-Hung
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Biophysics, Biomedical engineering
Description: Noninvasive laser therapy is currently limited primarily to cosmetic dermatological applications such as skin resurfacing, hair removal, tattoo removal and treatment of vascular birthmarks. In order to expand applications of noninvasive laser ther...