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Title: DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL REDOX-RESPONSIVE PORPHYRIN-BASED POLYSILSESQUIOXANE NANOMATERIALS FOR PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY
Author: Vega, Daniel
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Chemistry, Nanotechnology
Description: Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is a minimally invasive clinically approved cancertreatment that was first applied in the early 20th century. PDT is an attractive alternative when compared to chemotherapy and radiation therapy due to the lack of harmfu...

Title: DISTANCE-DEPENDENCE OF PLASMON-MULTIEXCITON COUPLING BETWEEN CDSE QUANTUM DOTS AND GOLD NANOSTRUCTURES
Author: Castaneda, Jose
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
Description: Quantum confinement that semiconductors experience at the nanoscale facilitate the creation of multiexcitons. However, this same confinement also increases the efficiency of Auger recombination which result in low quantum yields from these states....

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: 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: HEXACOORDINATE SILICON COMPLEXES FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES
Author: Kochegra, Margaret
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience
Description: Organic electronics such as organic light emitting diodes, organic photovoltaics, organic field effect transistors begin to replace classically used technology. This is due to their tailorability, possibility of smaller and flexible devices, and n...

Title: Hexacoordinate Silicon Complexes as Cathodic Colorants
Author: Peloquin, Derek
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Chemistry, Chemistry, Inorganic
Description: Electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical characterization of hexacoordinate polypyridine silicon complexes show that they are fitting candidates for electrochromic applications. Tris(bipyridine)silicon(IV), [Si(bpy)3]+4, is colorless in acetonit...

Title: Hypercoordinate Silicon CNC-Pincer Complexes for Electronic Devices
Author: Earnhardt, Adam
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Chemistry, Organic, Materials science
Description: Previous studies have demonstrated hexacoordinate silicon pincer complexes to be attractive candidates for efficient electron and hole transport layers in organic electronic devices. This work expands the field by incorporating carbon-nitrogen-car...

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: 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: 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: Long-term stability, vibrational and optical properties of β-ZnTe(en)0.5 and related organic-inorganic hybrid superlattices
Author: Ye, Tang
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Materials science, Chemistry
Description: Organic-inorganic hybrids may offer material properties enhanced compared to or not available from their inorganic and organic components. However, they are typically less stable and disordered. A group of highly ordered II-VI based hybrid structu...

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 OF PORPHYRIN-BASED POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSESQUIOXANE MOLECULES FOR IMPROVED PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY OF CANCER CELLS
Author: Siano, Paolo
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS) materials are a class of nanostructured compounds based on Si-O linkages forming a cage with a silicon atom at each vertex, where substituents are bound tetrahedrally determining the physical and chemica...

Title: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND APPLICATION OF SILICA-BASED NANOPARTICULATE PLATFORMS FOR THE DELIVERY OF PHOTOSENSITIZERS IN THE USE OF PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY FOR CANCER TREATMENT
Author: Lyles, Zachary
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience
Description: Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a subtype of breast cancer which lacks expressions of hormonal receptors (ER/PR/HER2) and other meaningful targets. TNBC is characterized by intra-tumoral heterogeneities, high proliferative activity, poor p...

Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Electroactive Organosilanes
Author: Lee, David
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: Siloles, or silacyclopentadienes, have unique electronic properties due to interaction between the butadiene π* orbital and the silylene σ* orbital. Consequently they have drawn interest for use in a variety of organic electronic interactions. A s...

Title: Synthesis and Electrochemical Characterization of [3]Radialene-based Catholytes for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries
Author: Turner, Nicholas
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: The unsubstituted [n]radialenes are a unique class of alicyclic hydrocarbons with radiating alkenes. These compounds are typically difficult to handle and polymerize rapidly. A number of stable radialene derivatives that exhibit reversible electro...

Title: Synthesis and Optical Properties of Hybrid Gold Nanoparticles Coupled with Quantum Dots and Porphyrins
Author: Tobias, Andrew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Chemistry, Nanotechnology
Description: Coupling of optically active materials, or chromphores, to plasmonic nanoparticles represents a new research area which has the ability to produce higher efficiency lighting and photovoltaic materials. The main goal of this project was to create n...

Title: THE SYNTHESIS OF PHOTOSENSITIZERS FOR THE PHOTODYNAMIC INACTIVATION OF ESCHERICHIA COLI
Author: Hurst, Alexandra
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: The development of antibiotic resistance is a natural phenomenon that occurs when bacteria cells exchange resistant traits amongst each other or when mutations occur during replication. This causes bacteria to be able to withstand attack by antibi...

Title: TRINUCLEAR METAL CHALCOGENIDE CLUSTERS AS PRECURSORS FOR SUPERATOMIC SOLIDS AND CLUSTER ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS
Author: Shott, Jessica
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Chemistry, Chemistry, Inorganic
Description: Inorganic molecular clusters Ni3(μ3-I)2(μ2-dppm)3 (1), Ni3(μ3-Te)2(μ2-dppm)3 (2), Ni3(μ3-Se)2(μ2-dppm)3 (3), Ni3(μ3-S)2(μ2-dppm)3 (4), Co4(μ3-S)4(PPri3)4 (5), and Mo3(μ3-S)2(μ2-S)3(PMe3)6 (6) have been used as building block precursors in the form...

Title: study of optoelectronic properties of thin film solar cell materials Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 using multiple correlative spatially-resolved spectroscopy techniques
Author: Chen, Qiong
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Containing only earth abundant and environmental friendly elements, quaternary compounds Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) and Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe) are considered as promising absorber materials for thin film solar cells. The best record efficiency for this type of ...