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Skip to Search Results- 1Alsbaiee, Alaaeddin
- 1Belal, Ahmed S. F.
- 1Beltaos, Angela M
- 1Boulet, Joel L
- 1Dinh, David Q.
- 1Li, Yan
- 2Shankar, Karthik (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Bergren, Adam (National Institute for Nanotechnology)
- 1Buriak, Jillian (Chemistry)
- 1Campbell, Robert (Chemistry)
- 1Co-supervisor: West, Frederick G (Department of Chemistry)
- 1Dr. Sandipan Pramanik (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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Fall 2018
Detection of biomolecules that are over- or under-expressed in diseases is an important field for early diagnosis, monitoring treatment, and improving patient prognosis. The main goal of my thesis is to utilize DNA nanotechnology combined with nanomaterials to provide sensitive and specific...
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Fall 2013
The discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the Aequorea victoria Jellyfish followed by the extensive efforts of protein engineers to produce other fluorescent proteins (FPs) spanning the visible color spectrum made fluorescent proteins indispensable biochemical tools in the scientific...
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Engineering a Chromoprotein Optimized for Photoacoustic Imaging and Biosensing Applications
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A subset of the family of fluorescent proteins are the non-fluorescent chromoproteins which serve as important tools in biomedical research. Recently, chromoproteins have been utilized as both reporter molecules in photoacoustic imaging and acceptor chromophores in Förster resonance energy...
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Spring 2013
Research was undertaken into the organic semiconductors tris(8- hydroxyquinoline)aluminum (Alq3) as well as bis(8-hydroxyquinoline)zinc (Znq2) to the effect of improving achievable morphological control using an inexpensive evaporation based solution synthesis method. By varying experimental...
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Fall 2017
Despite offering advantages such as physical flexibility and cost-effectiveness, thin-film optoelectronic devices are held back by their lackluster efficiency in competition with their traditional counterparts. Since one major factor in low performance of these devices is known to be their...
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Highly Ordered Methanofullerene Nanotube Array: Fabrication and Implications for Room Temperature Organic Spintronics
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Organic semiconductors have come to the forefront of research in physics, chemistry and electronics due to their impressive properties and low cost of device production. Presented here is a novel centrifuge assisted organic nanowire growth technique and its application in the fabrication of...
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Spring 2020
There is an increasing need of clean renewable energy sources to address the growing problems of greenhouse gas emission, global warming and climate change. The rapid consumption of fossil fuel resources has also contributed to toxic emissions and raised a question on sustainability of present...