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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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- 2Second Harmonic Generation
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Recognizing Molecules and Following Reactions at Interfaces Using the Nonlinear Optical Techniques Sum Frequency Generation and Second Harmonic Generation
DownloadFall 2015
Silica has been widely used as a solid support to generate functionalized silica in material science, which plays important roles in various areas such as catalysis and disease diagnostics. The applications of functionalized silica involve the special molecular properties of interfaces, which can...
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Studying the Effects of pH, Ion Concentration and Ion Valency on the Silica/Water Interface Using Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy
DownloadSpring 2017
The silica/water interface is complex and depends on a multitude of properties like surface charge, ion concentration, ion identity, and surface structure. Yet because silica is an insulator, the interface it creates with water is often difficult to study. However, the nonlinear optical methods,...
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Fall 2013
Understanding the molecular recognition processes at the solid/liquid interface is of central importance in numerous environmental, biological and materials applications. We studied the unorthodox behavior of molecules and ions at the silica/liquid interfaces using surface specific spectroscopic...
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Fall 2014
Developing a simple, general, and isothermal self-replicating system is one of the key requirements for a simplified detection platform for nucleic acid sequences specific to a disease causing microrganism. One of the challenges in achieving nucleic-acid templated isothermal amplification is that...
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Tuning the Surface Composition, Spatial Arrangement, and Thermal Release Behavior of DNA-Gold Nanomaterials
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Combining multiple functions and controlling their relative organization on the surface, as well as controlling the release of payloads will be essential properties of nanomaterials for future medical applications. In this thesis we studied these properties using as a model DNA-gold...