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Title: Electrochromic, Electrofluorochromic, and Photoactive Properties of Thiazolothiazole-Based, Multifunctional Materials
Author: Adams, Tyler
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Nanoscience
Description: There have been an increasing number of materials developed that show multifunctional chromogenic properties (such as electrochromism, electrofluorochromism, or photochromism), but to date, few materials have shown all three properties. Materials ...

Title: Effects of Weathering on Performance of Intumescent Coatings for Structure Fire Protection in the Wildland-Urban Interface
Author: Bahrani, Babak
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Polymers, Materials science, Wood
Description: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of weathering on the performance of intumescent fire-retardant coatings on wooden products. The weathering effects included primary (solar irradiation, moisture, and temperature) and secon...

Title: IDENTIFICATION OF EPITHELIAL OVARIAN TUMOR SPECIFIC APTAMERS THAT BIND AND INTERNALIZE INTO TARGET CELLS
Author: Benedetto, Gregory
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Biology
Description: New clinical tools that aid in the early diagnosis of ovarian malignancies will significantly help reduce mortality and improve current long-term survival rates. The objective of the work presented here was to identify ovarian tumor specific singl...

Title: Utilizing fluorescently tagged undecaprenyl phosphate as a means to study lipid A modification in Bordetella pertussis.
Author: Black, Theresa
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: Bordetella pertussis is a gram-negative bacterium that is the causative agent of whooping cough, a highly contagious disease that can be fatal in very young children. The outer membrane of the bacteria consists mainly of lipolysaccharide (LPS), an...

Title: Early Detection of Malaria Parasitic RNA Through an Amplification-Free Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Biosensor
Author: Blackwell, Ashley
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: Malaria retains its position as one of the most highly transferable diseases throughout the world today, with current efforts focused on controlling its spread. A sensitive, asymptomatic-stage detection method is needed to diagnose malaria before ...

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: 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: 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: 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: Analysis and Development of Targeting Strategies for Bacterial Sugars
Author: Erickson, Katelyn
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Biochemistry
Description: Bacterial cell surface exopolysaccharides aid in protecting microbes from the defense mechanisms of the host, and differ substantially in structure between species. Exploiting these structural differences would be advantageous to target certain ty...

Title: Design and Modulation of Novel Chemical Probes for RNA SHAPE Analysis: Water Soluble Isatoic Anhydrides and Nicotinic Acid Imidazolides
Author: Fessler, Adam
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Biology
Description: The growing interest in RNA biology, along with an expansion in computational capabilities, throughput, and sensitivity has provided researchers new tools to probe RNA. RNA selective 2′-hydroxy acylation analyzed by primer extension (SHAPE) utiliz...

Title: Chemical Tools for Biology
Author: Fessler, Adam
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: Reagents for biotinylation that are innately water-soluble and can be tracked by both UV-vis spectroscopy and fluorescence (330nm/420nm) have been developed. These reagents are based on the isatoic anhydride platform, which gives rise to their val...

Title: Folate Receptor-Specific, Redox-Responsive Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for the Simultaneous Delivery of Cisplatin and Gemcitabine to Treat Cancer
Author: Fink, Eric
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Chemistry, Biochemistry
Description: Nanoparticles are an innovative platform for cancer treatment that reduces systemic toxicity and allows for active targeting of tumor sites to enhance the therapeutic efficacy. Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have emerged as an attractive d...

Title: Synthesis and Reactivity of Six-Membered N-Heterocyclic Chalcogenones
Author: Flanagan, Jerrod
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Chemistry, Inorganic
Description: The synthesis and coordination chemistry of N-heterocyclic thione (NHT) and selone (NHSe) ligands containing a saturated pyrimidine ring and bulky aromatic substituents on the nitrogen atoms is described in this thesis. To further understand the e...

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: Synthesis, Characterization and Functionalization of Anti-Bisarene Scaffolds
Author: Franklin, Joseph
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: Since the advent of rational organic synthesis, practitioners in the field have been refining their craft to target compounds of immense complexity. Synthetic methodologies discovered through these pursuits have provided a fertile ground to expand...

Title: A WATER-SOLUBLE COBALT SULFIDE SUPERATOM FOR FLOW BATTERY APPLICATIONS AND CRYSTALLINE FRAMEWORK SYNTHESIS
Author: Freeman, Matthew
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: Metal sulfide clusters are attractive components for flow batteries owing to the abundance of their constituent atoms and their tunable size, solubility, and redox properties. We prepared an atomically precise cobalt sulfide cluster, Co6S8(PTA)6•4...

Title: Exceptional New Reagents for Bioconjugation
Author: Garmon, Corey
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Biochemistry
Description: At about the turn of this century the term "click" chemistry came into the common vernacular amongst chemists. "Click" is used to describe reactions that are "spring-loaded" and proceed well in a predictable manner, with no offensive byproduct and...

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: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Cross-Conjugated Frameworks
Author: Hamilton, Victoria
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Chemistry, Organic
Description: ABSTRACTVICTORIA LEIGH HAMILTON. Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Cross-Conjugated Frameworks. (Under the direction of MARKUS ETZKORN)Molecules with cross-conjugated -systems possess unique structures and reactivity due to their dis...