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Cell-electronic Sensing of Cellular Responses and Toxicity Induced by Nanoparticles and Arsenic Species
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We demonstrate the development of a real-time cell analysis (RTCA) platform for studying nanoparticle- and arsenic-induced cytotoxicity with potential applications to risk assessment, environmental toxicity monitoring, and drug development. RTCA is an impedance-based in vitro detection system...
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Characterization of magnetic nanoparticles as contrast agents and their application for quantitative magnetic susceptibility monitoring of the waterflooding of heavy oil in real time
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Waterflooding is one enhanced oil recovery process used in heavy oil reservoirs such as at Cold Lake in North-Eastern Alberta. However, little has been published in terms of imaging heavy oil waterfloods, mainly due to the similar densities of water and heavy oil, which makes it difficult to...
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Characterization of Particulate Matter Morphology and Volatility for Two Direct-Injection Engines
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Particulate matter emitted from two direct injection engines has been characterized by morphology, volatility, mass-mobility exponent, effective density, and size distribution using tandem measurements from a centrifugal particle mass analyzer (CPMA) and differential mobility analyzers (DMA). The...
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Cost-Effective Catalysts for the Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
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The growing consumption of fossil resources has rapidly depleted fuel availability and increased CO2 emission, which presents two of the most prominent crises in the modern era. CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) at ambient conditions using electrochemical (EC) and photoelectrochemical (PEC) methods...
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Fall 2023
Plasmonics deals with the collective excitations of light coupled with free electrons in matter. It has widespread use in the fields of biosensing and nanoscale waveguiding due to the enhancement of the electric fields. My thesis deals with an important frontier in the field of plasmonics by...
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Fall 2012
Dendritic cells (DCs) play a central role in shaping antigen-specific immune response. Antibody-mediated antigen targeting to DC-specific surface receptors is a promising approach to enhance vaccine efficacy. The objective of this thesis was to develop DC-targeted nanoparticulate formulations for...
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Design and evaluation of a new Lewis acid-assisted Lewis acid catalyst system and further applications of a double-allylation reagent
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Asymmetric synthesis is one of the most important areas of organic chemistry. Despite of the prevalence of asymmetric catalysts, there is still room for improved catalyst systems. Chapter 2 describes the design and evaluation of a new Lewis acid-assisted Lewis acid (LLA) catalyst system. Many...
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Design, Development and Mechanistic Study of Ruthenium-Based Catalysts for the Hydrogenation of Imides and Amides
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Prior mechanistic studies demonstrate that trans-[RuH2((R)-BINAP)((R,R)-dpen)] is a remarkably active carbonyl reducing agent at low-temperatures in THF-d8. This dissertation describes the monohydrogenation of cyclic meso-imides using this catalyst and related complexes under mild conditions....
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Development of Ir- and Rh-Catalyzed Deoxygenation and Carbene Cross Coupling Reactions of Allylic Carbonates
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Transition metal-catalyzed allylic substitution reactions are widely used for the selective formation of new bonds. This class of reaction has been extensively studied with a variety of nucleophiles and under optimized conditions that will furnish product in high yield and with high chemo-,...
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Fall 2019
Carboxylic acids are a ubiquitous class of molecules in the field of organic chemistry and represent versatile building blocks in synthetic chemistry. Methods that enable the formation of new carbon–carbon or carbon–heteroatom bonds from carboxylic acids via the extrusion of carbon dioxide can...