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Title: CONTROLLED GROWTH AND PROPERTY STUDY OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL LAYERED NANOSTRUCTURES OF MOLYBDENUM OXIDE
Author: Razmyar, Soheil
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Engineering, Nanotechnology
Description: Molybdenum trioxide (MoO3) is a versatile semiconductor material with a wide range of potential applications in photocatalysis, electrochromism/photochromism, sensing, and energy storage. Its highly anisotropic layered structure with weak van der ...

Title: Controlled growth and property measurement of one-dimensional oxide nanostructures for energy applications
Author: Sheng, Tao
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Optics, Nanotechnology
Description: Transition metal oxides (TMOs) exhibit rich structures and useful properties, and could be used in applications of solar energy harvesting (e.g., photoelectrochemistry, photocatalysis, and photovoltaics) and energy saving (e.g., electrochromism an...

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: Effects of Edge Roughness on Optical Scattering from Periodic Microstructures
Author: Bergner, Brent
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Nanotechnology
Description: Planar photonic crystals and other microstructured surfaces have important applications in a number of emerging technologies. However, these structures can be difficult to fabricate in a consistent manner. Rapid, precise measurements of critical p...

Title: Exploring the Immune System using Hybrid Cube Nanoparticles
Author: McMillan, Jessica
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Biochemistry, Nanotechnology, Biology
Description: Nano-sized cubes made from nucleic acid material (NANPs) are ideal scaffolds for therapeutic nucleic acids (TNAs). Both utilize sequence specificity through base-pairing, providing controlled strand interaction, stability, and targeted targeting d...

Title: Functionally-interdependent shape-switching nanoparticles with controllable properties
Author: Halman, Justin, Khisamutdinov, Emil F., Afonin, Kirill A., Satterwhite, Emily, Roark, Brandon, Chandler, Morgan, Ivanina, Anna, Viard, Mathias, Bindewald, Eckart, Kasprzak, Wojciech K., Panigaj, Martin, Bui, My N., Lu, Jacob S., Miller, Johann, Shapiro, Bruce A., Dobrovolskaia, Marina A.
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Nanotechnology
Description: We introduce a new concept that utilizes cognate nucleic acid nanoparticles which are fully complementary and functionally-interdependent to each other. In the described approach, the physical interaction between sets of designed nanoparticles ini...

Title: GROWTH OF InGaN MATERIAL AND DEVICE STRUCTURES IN A HIGH PRESSURE MOCVD REACTOR
Author: Conway, Matthew
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Electrical engineering, Nanotechnology
Description: This is an initial investigation of the super-atmospheric (1.5 – 2.5 bar(a)) Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) growth of InGaN materials and experimental, device-like structures. The work was accomplished in a custom MOCVD reactor, s...

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: 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 PROPERTIES OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRCTURES, EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENT AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION
Author: Wu, Xiaoxia
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Nanotechnology
Description: One-Dimensional (1D) nanostructures are generally defined as having at least one dimension between 1 and 100 nm. Investigations of their mechanical properties are important from both fundamental study and application point of view. Different metho...

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: ORGANIZATION OF BIOMOLECULES IN A 3-DIMENSIONAL SPACE
Author: Sajja, Sameer
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nanotechnology, Biochemistry
Description: The human body operates using various stimuli-responsive mechanisms, dictating biological activity via reaction to external cues. Hydrogels are networked hydrophilic polymeric materials that offer the potential to recreate aqueous environments wit...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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...