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- 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
- Determining the Rate of Ligand-Induced Charge-Transfer Effects on Quantum Dots
- Author
- Bowman, Cale
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Chemistry
- Description
- In this report, charge carrier dynamics and rate of electron transfer is investigated between two bis(thioether)silane (R2BtsMe) ligands and 2.65 nm CdSe core quantum dots (QDs). Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) data is used to determine bin...
- Title
- ENGINEERING OXYGEN TRANSPORT FOR IMPROVING CELL PERFORMANCE IN HEPATIC DEVICES
- Author
- Shi, Gengbei
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Biomedical engineering
- Description
- The bioartificial liver (BAL) advancing medical technology aims to provide temporary liver substitution for patients in dire need of liver transplants and also for drug development. Yet despite nearly fifty years of development, the approval for t...
- Title
- Electric Field Dependent Spectroscopy of Single Nanocrystal Systems
- Author
- LeBlanc, Sharonda
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics, Nanoscience, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
- Description
- A suite of single molecule spectroscopic techniques and data analysis methods were implemented to explore the complex role of electric fields in single semiconductor nanocrystal photophysics. This dissertation spans the synthesis, characterization...
- Title
- Exploration of Structure-Property Relationship and Growth Mechanism of 1D Nanowires Using Transmission Electron Microscopy
- Author
- Akter, Manira
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science
- Description
- One-dimensional (1D) nanostructured materials, e.g., nanowires (NWs) have fascinating properties and applications in various fields including electronic and energy conversion devices. Despite tremendous progress in the NW research field, a thoroug...
- Title
- Exploring exciton and trap state recombination dynamics in cadmium sulfide quantum dots
- Author
- Woodall, Danielle
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Nanoscience, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
- Description
- Colloidal semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) are ideal candidates for optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and LEDs because of their high photoluminescence (PL) quantum yields and photostability. In order to improve device efficiencies, we mu...
- Title
- FABRICATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND MODELING OF RANDOM ANTI-REFLECTIVE OPTICAL SURFACE STRUCTURES
- Author
- Joshi, Rajendra
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics, Nanoscience, Physics
- Description
- RAJENDRA JOSHI. Fabrication, Characterization, and Modeling of Random Anti-reflective Optical Surface Structures. (Under the direction of DR. GREGORY J. GBUR)Optical surfaces can be fabricated to be anti-reflective (AR) by coating single- or multi...
- Title
- FUNCTIONALIZATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL COORDINATION COMPLEXES FOR USE IN SUPERCAPACITORS
- Author
- Zuczek, Justin
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science, Power resources
- Description
- As society begins to move away from fossil fuel consumption and the harmful effects they entail, renewable energy sources have been studied extensively over the past decades. One obstacle with renewable energy is the ability to cheaply store it du...
- Title
- Halogenated Tags for the Investigation of Enzyme Specificity
- Author
- Houde, Hailey
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Biochemistry, Chemistry
- Description
- The bacterial enzyme undecaprenyl pyrophosphate synthase (UppS) is present in most prokaryotes and is needed for bacterial survival. UppS produces the essential lipid carrier, bactoprenyl monophosphate (BP). BP is critical for the structural integ...
- Title
- INGAN/GAN MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES: SUBMICRON STRUCTURAL, OPTICAL, ELECTRICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
- Author
- Li, Ying
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science, Electrical engineering, Optics
- Description
- In this work, a novel approach has been implemented to investigate the submicron (30nm spatial resolution) structural and optical properties of bulk GaN, InGaN/GaN Multiple Quantum Well (MQW), p-typle AlGaN capped MQW, and full Light Emitting Diod...
- Title
- INTERFACE STUDY OF SPIRO-OMETAD ON PASSIVATED P-, N-, AND N+-Si(111) FOR USE IN TANDEM PEROVSKITE/SILICON SOLAR CELL DEVICES
- Author
- Nguyen, Li
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Chemistry, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Renewable energy sources
- Description
- The organic semiconductor 2,2’,7,7’-tetrakis-(N,N-di-p-methoxyphenylamine)9,9’-spirobifluorene (Spiro-OMeTAD) contact properties are studied on p-, n-, and n+-type silicon. Spiro-OMeTAD is a solid state hole conductor that has notably been used in...
- Title
- INVESTIGATION OF THE CURRENT TRANSPORT MECHANISMS IN FIRE THROUGH DIELECTRIC CONTACT (FTDC) TO SILICON SOLAR CELLS BY SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSES
- Author
- Ren, Keming
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Nanoscience
- Description
- This thesis work investigates the current transport mechanisms at the Si/gridline interface of the screen-printed commercial silicon (Si) solar cell with lowly doped emitter. The use of lightly doped emitter is one way to improve the efficiency of...
- Title
- LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS IN SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRES: LIGHT-EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND LIGHT-INDUCED CHANGES IN ELECTRON-PHONON COUPLING AND ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS
- Author
- Marmon, Jason
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science, Electrical engineering, Optics
- Description
- This dissertation explores three related embodiments of light–matter interactions at the micro– and nano–scales, and is focused towards tangible device applications. The first topic provides a fundamentally different transistor or electronic switc...
- 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
- Lithography-Free Growth of Silicon Microwires via Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition for Optoelectronic Applications.
- Author
- Thakur, Esha
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Materials science
- Description
- Realizing the next-generation electronic devices with added features, i.e., flexibility, smaller dimension, higher density (transistors per unit area), lightweight, and low-power consumption, would require extensive work to optimize the processing...
- Title
- MECHANICAL BUCKLING OF INDIVIDUAL SILICON NANORIBBONS ON A COMPLIANT SUBSTRATE
- Author
- Chang, Siang Yee
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science
- Description
- About a decade ago, mechanical buckling evolves as a promising metrology to rapidly measure the elastic moduli of thin films and one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures. This form of metrology translates the geometrical measurements of the buckling pr...
- Title
- PHYSICAL AND ELECTROCHEMICAL INTERACTIONS WITHIN HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES OF RUTHENIUM COORDINATION COMPLEXES AND SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES
- Author
- Alston, Jeffrey
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
- Description
- The research presented in this dissertation is a study of the interaction of ruthenium coordination complexes with single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), a pursuit ultimately leading to the development of composite SWCNT materials. The work comp...
- 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
- 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...