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Mechanisms of Chiral Features of Atomically Precise Metal Clusters and Resonant Transition Metal Complexes: Insights from Vibrational Optical Activity
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My PhD thesis primarily focuses on exploring chiroptical events and to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for chiroptical signatures in various compounds. These compounds encompass several atomically precise silver and copper clusters, a europium complex, and two highly flexible monosaccharide...
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Computational Investigation of Electrical Conductivities and Magnetism of Phosphonate Metal-Organic Frameworks and Frontier Orbital Gaps, Structure, and Proton Transfer Mechanisms in Phosphonate Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Frameworks
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The study of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs) has gained much interest over the last decade. MOFs and HOFs are constructed through the self-assembly of organic building units and metals (in the case of MOFs), giving rise to a diverse range of...
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New abundant 4CzIPN-derivatized Photosensitizers and Catalysts for Photosynthetic Organic Reactions and Solar Fuels
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The development of artificial photosynthetic systems is a promising strategy to meet future energy demands of our society and to reverse the impact of anthropogenic CO2 in the environment. Energy conversion devices such as photoelectrochemical cells are one key component in the transition to a...
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Chemical Characterization of Indoor Air Pollutants: Implications to Consumer and Occupational Health
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Humans living in the contemporary societies find the majority of their time spent indoors, promoting awareness regarding indoor air quality over the past decades. The indoor environment has gained significant complicity due to an increasing variety of inhalable products consumed in our daily...
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Fall 2024
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNPs) are used in catalysis, drug delivery, controlled drug release, imaging and biosensing applications due to their stability, high pore volumes, large surface area and non-toxicity. Although MSNPs have many advantages in biological applications, they lack...
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Interstellar Germanium Dust Molecules: a Computational Study on Their Structure, Spectroscopy, and Detectability; or, One Small Step Down the Periodic Table, One Giant Leap in Interstellar Chemistry
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Alongside observational and experimental work, theoretical and computational research is just as vital to understanding the chemical composition of space. Although more molecules continue to be discovered in space, the molecular structures in which many of the elements in the periodic table exist...
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Fall 2024
Sialylation is a crucial post-translational modification that covalently attaches sialic acid to glycoproteins and glycolipids, and is driven by a superfamily of enzymes called sialyltransferases (STs). Alterations in sialylation have been identified in different biological contexts including...
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Fall 2024
Despite the widespread use of hydrofluoric acid (HF) in the preparation of silicon surfaces, the true nature of fluorinated surface species remains unclear. Here, an array of characterization techniques led by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is employed to uncover the nature...
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Synthesis of High-Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles and Compounds Using Germanium-Based Nanostructures
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High-entropy alloy nanoparticles and compounds exhibit significant potential in various emerging energy storage and conversion fields due to their compositional flexibility for precise tuning of desired functionalities. The research described in this thesis aims to explore germanium-based...
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Advancing Lipidomics through Method Development, Data Processing, and its Applications in Cancer Research
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Lipidomics, a subfield of metabolomics, offers comprehensive insights into the lipid composition of biological systems. Lipids, comprising a broad class of biological molecules, are essential to several biological functions. They play critical roles in cell membrane formation, serving as...