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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: 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: BORON CARBIDE NANOWIRES: SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION
Author: Guan, Zhe
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Materials science
Description: Bulk boron carbide has been widely used in ballistic armored vest and the property characterization has been heavily focused on mechanical properties. Even though boron carbides have also been projected as a promising class of high temperature the...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: The Role of Film Morphology and Defects on the Photostability and Carrier Transport of Methylammonium Lead Triiodide
Author: Castaneda, Jose
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Materials science, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
Description: Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites are viewed as a cost-effective alternative for photovoltaic devices, among other applications. Solution and low-temperature processing have gathered much attention for this class of materials. However, the stab...

Title: Characterization of Individual Straight and Kinked Boron Carbide Nanowires
Author: Cui, Zhiguang
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Nanoscience, Physics
Description: Boron carbides represent a class of ceramic materials with p-type semiconductor natures, complex structures and a wide homogeneous range of carbon compositions. Bulk boron carbides have long been projected as promising high temperature thermoelect...

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: 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 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: Terahertz optical properties of metamaterials and optical components fabricated using polymer-based additive manufacturing
Author: Park, Serang
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Continuous advancement in terahertz technologies have drawn interest in manufacturing and rapid prototyping of optical components suitable for the terahertz spectral range. One of the approaches of realizing such optical components is additive man...

Title: Synthesis and Reactivity of Benzodiazepine-Derived Heterocyclic Thiones and Selones
Author: Clinkscales, Alexander
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Inorganic, Chemistry, Organic, Analytical chemistry
Description: This thesis outlines the synthesis, characterization and coordination chemistry of new N-heterocylic benzodiazepine thione (NHT) and selone (NHSe) ligands. This new family of ligands, SBzDzArE (Ar = Xy, Mes, Dipp; E = S, Se), contain various bulky...

Title: Synthesis and Reactivity of N-Heterocyclic Chalcogenone Complexes of Copper and Silver
Author: Allen, Alexander
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Inorganic, Chemistry, Organic, Analytical chemistry
Description: This presentation outlines the synthesis and characterization of several unusual two-coordinate copper(I) and silver(I) complexes supported by bulky N-heterocyclic thione (NHT) and selone (NHSe) ligands. More specifically, copper(I) complexes of t...