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Title: UV-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes and Nanoscale Antimicrobials for Antibiotic Resistance Mitigation
Author: Sorinolu, Adeola
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Nanoscience, Microbiology
Description: Antibiotic resistance (AR) is an ongoing pandemic that is unnoticed by many. AR is a global public health issue that challenges therapeutic potential against pathogens of humans and animals. Predictably, the environment has been implicated in the ...

Title: Thermal analysis of filler reinforced polymeric composites
Author: Ghadge, Mahesh
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanics, Nanoscience, Nanotechnology
Description: Improving heat dissipating property of composite materials is becoming increasinglyimportant in domains ranging from the automotive industry, electronic devices toaeronautical industry. Effective heat dissipation is required especially in aircraft...

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: The Influence of Reinforcement Size on the Microstructure and Mechanical Behavior of a Nanostructured Aluminum-Based Metal Matrix Composite
Author: Behm, Nathan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Materials science, Nanoscience
Description: With increased availability and growing commercial applications, aluminum- based metal matrix composites show promise as high specific strength structural materials. Before they can be implemented however, they require thorough characterization an...

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: THE SYNTHESIS AND PHOTOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PORPHYRIN PHOTOACTIVE MATERIALS FOR USE AS SENSITIZERS IN ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS AND PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY
Author: Marin, Dawn
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Chemistry
Description: Solar energy conversion and photodynamic therapy (PDT) are very different applications. However, both utilize very similar photoactive molecules called porphyrins. Porphyrins are structural analogs of chlorophyll and also function as prosthetic gr...

Title: Synthesis, photophysical characterization, and application of asymmetric thiazolothiazoles as molecular sensors
Author: Sayresmith, Nickolas
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Chemistry
Description: Small molecule fluorophores are critical for fluorescence spectroscopy, and enable the measurement of a wide array of biological processes and dynamics. For many biological sensing applications, the overall efficacy of the fluorophore is closely c...

Title: Synthesis and characterization of single-walled carbon nanotubes for use in water purification
Author: Johnson, Billy
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Nanoscience, Chemistry
Description: As human health concerns over disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in drinking water increase, so does the need to development new materials that remove them rapidly and at high-efficiency. Ion exchange (IEX) is an effective method for the removal of na...

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: Space Variant Guided Mode Resonant Filters
Author: Roth, Zachary
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Nanoscience
Description: Guided mode resonance filters (GMRF) combine subwavelength gratings and planar slab waveguides to create highly efficient, narrow linewidth spectral filters. Resonances between diffracted orders of the SWG and the waveguide provide the mechanism f...

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: RNA Kissing Loop Library to expand RNA Fiber functionality and control cargo load for potential intracellular siRNA delivery.
Author: Shevchenko, Oleg
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Biochemistry
Description: A kissing loop (KL) is an RNA motif that among others may have a 180° geometry when derived from a viral genome. The KL interactions of this geometry consist of nine base pairs, six of which are interacting in complementary binding while three are...

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: Optical Vortices and Coherence in Nano-optics
Author: Smith, Matt
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Nanoscience, Nanotechnology
Description: In this dissertation, we use theory and computation to conduct three projects in the area of nano-optics. In the first project, we study optical coherence conversion using a plasmonic hole array. This work led to the discovery of the optical coher...

Title: NUCLEIC ACID-DRIVEN QUANTUM DOT-BASED LATTICE FORMATIONS FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
Author: Roark, Brandon
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Biochemistry
Description: We present a versatile biosensing strategy that uses nucleic acids programmed to undergo an isothermal toehold mediated strand displacement in the presence of analyte. This rearrangement results in a double biotinylated duplex formation that induc...

Title: Metasurfaces for Field Control and Detection
Author: Rosenbury, Christopher
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Nanoscience, Physics
Description: Metasurfaces have been of increasing interest in the scientific community due to their consistent ability to efficiently reproduce traditional optical elements via quasi-monolithic patterning. In this dissertation I will examine various metasurfac...

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: 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: 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: Immunostimulatory Properties of Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles
Author: Halman, Justin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience
Description: Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) are ubiquitous biomolecules found throughout all living organisms. They can act as genetic information storage and messengers, enzymes, molecular switches, and much more. Although DNA is used almost exclusively for its ...