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Title: A Comprehensive Study of Drinking Water Coagulation with Aluminum Sulfate
Author: Alansari, Amir
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Coagulation is usually the first and most important step in conventional drinking water treatment processes. The efficiency of all downstream processes is directly dependent on the effectiveness of the coagulation stage. Coagulants such as aluminu...

Title: Assessing the Biological Activities of DNA-Templated Silver Nanoclusters and Furthering the Characterization of Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles
Author: Rolband, Lewis
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Biochemistry
Description: DNA and RNA are structurally and functionally diverse biopolymers that haveshown promise in recent years as a powerful biomedical tool, in the form of nucleic acid nanotechnologies. The applications of these technologies include biosensing, diagno...

Title: Conditioning of Platinum Nanoparticle Catalysts for Improved Hydrogen Generation on P3HT:PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Photocathodes
Author: Ivins, Reynolds
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Environmental engineering, Renewable energy sources
Description: This work aims to design, develop, and investigate the capacity of a metal catalyst-coated organic photoelectrode to produce molecular hydrogen when illuminated in acidic media. 3-5 nm platinum nanoparticles (PtNPs) were synthesized, treated to re...

Title: Crystalline Silicon Interfaces with Adhesive Polymer Semiconducting Glue and Thiazolothiazole Redox Active Organic Small Molecules
Author: Cohen, Daniel
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Chemistry, Chemistry, Organic
Description: Crystalline silicon is an extremely versatile semiconductor material used for electronics and photovoltaic devices. An organic conductive glue based on a blend of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) and d-sorbitol ...

Title: Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Simulation of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Porphyrin Molecules to Fabricate Self-Assembled Nanoparticles and Their Use for Photodynamic Therapy
Author: Loman-Cortes, Paula
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience
Description: PAULA LOMAN-CORTES. Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Simulation of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Porphyrin Molecules to Fabricate Self-Assembled Nanoparticles and Their Use for Photodynamic Therapy. (Under the direction of DR JUAN L ...

Title: Development of a Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy-based Assay to Detect Malaria Biomarkers in Blood
Author: Hamm, Logan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: Malaria is an infectious disease that affects many lives around the world and eradication efforts are focused on controlling the disease transmission; which requires early diagnosis of the infection before the onset of symptoms, i.e. at the asympt...

Title: Exploring The Self Assembly of Cadmium Selenide Nanoparticles In Langmuir Films
Author: Giles, Alexander
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Nanoscience, Physics
Description: The assembly of semiconductor nanocrystals into close packed films suitable for device engineering is critical to the development of next generation electronic and optoelectronic devices. These nanocrystals have nanometer dimensions and can be pre...

Title: INVESTIGATIONS INTO PHOTO-EXCITED STATE DYNAMICS IN COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS
Author: Singh, Gaurav
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Nanotechnology
Description: Colloidal Quantum dots (QDs) have garnered considerable scientific and technological interest as a promising material for next generation solar cells, photo-detectors, lasers, bright light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and reliable biomarkers. However, ...

Title: MICRO- TO MACROSCALE MODELING OF DRINKING WATER TREATMENT AND DISTRIBUTION
Author: Polaczyk, Amy
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Environmental sciences
Description: Models are valuable tools that can provide quantitative insight into a process or system, but must to be kept simple to remain meaningful. In this dissertation, three separate drinking water research projects were completed using numerical modelin...

Title: Mass Spectrometric Protein Footprinting of Conformational Changes Induced by Chromatographic Surfaces
Author: Focke, Kimberly
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Analytical chemistry, Biochemistry
Description: Reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) of intact proteins induces conformational changes due to the denaturing effects of both the hydrophobic stationary phase and the high-organic mobile phase, which can lead to poor recovery and badly disto...

Title: Mechanical Characterization of Boron-Based One-Dimensional Nanostructures by Various Techniques
Author: Jiang, Youfei
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Materials science, Nanoscience
Description: One-dimensional (1D) nanostructures, such as nanotubes, nanowires and nanobelts, have attracted considerable interests in the last two decades because of their exceptional physical, chemical, and electrical properties. Engineering applications of ...

Title: Multiscale modeling of the properties of two-dimensional materials
Author: Wang, Xiaonan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The main objective of this dissertation is to study the thermal and mechanicalproperties of two dimensional materials. For this purpose, we use and combine atomiclevel simulations with continuum level simulations. In this dissertation, moleculardy...

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...