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Fall 2014

Kausar, Abu

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...

Fall 2014

Assempour, Nazanin

Optical imaging of membrane potentials has become an immensely popular approach to study neuronal activity. Over the past decades, a number of voltage indicators have been introduced including the voltage sensitive fluorescent protein (VSFP) and microbial rhodopsins. However, most of these...

Fall 2013

Diaz, Julian

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...

Fall 2021

Luppi, Bruno T.

This Thesis describes the synthesis and investigation of π-conjugated oligomers and polymers with optoelectronic properties affected by the presence of a heteroatom. Two major classes of polymers are discussed: 1) polytellurophenes, where the backbone is formed by 5-membered heterocycles...

2005

Misir, Kowlasar

Fall 2012

Bonderoff, Sara A

5-Membered carbocycles are ubiquitous in natural products and synthetic drugs. Methods of generating them are therefore valuable, and the ability to do so in a stereospecific and enantioselective manner while making considerable gains in molecular complexity with additional incorporation of...

1999

Qiu, Xiangming Charmaine.

Fall 2017

Braziunaite, Aukse

Cobalt phosphoranimide clusters [Co(NPPh3)(OSiMe3)(THF)]2, [Co(NPPh3)(OtBu)(THF)]2 and [Co(NPiPr3)2]3 were synthesized. Salt metathesis between CoBr2 and NaNPPh3 and a subsequent in situ reaction with KOSiMe3 provides a convenient and scalable preparation of [Co(NPPh3)(OSiMe3)(THF)]2. The same...

1991

Jenkins, James A.

Spring 2018

Islam, Muhammad Amirul

Quantum dots (QDs) have drawn substantial attention in multidisciplinary research in science, technology, and biomedicine during the last three decades. However, the toxicity of heavy metals and the depleting earth abundance of some elements common to QDs have prompted the development of...