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Binding Topologies of Amino Acid Binary Systems by Infrared Multiphoton Dissociation (IRMPD) Spectroscopy
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Studies of amino acids are essential because they are one of the building blocks of larger biomolecules, and it is crucial for us to understand how they interact with each other to fulfill all these various biological functions in our daily life. One interesting and noticeable fact from previous...
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Fall 2022
Silicon nanoparticles have sparked researchers’ interest as a biologically compatible and abundant quantum dot alternative. Doped silicon nanoparticles (SiNPs) offer unique optical and electronic properties that are not observed for intrinsic Si. These advantageous properties can be applied...
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Transition Metal Oxide Nanoparticles Decorated Carbon Nanomaterials as Earth-Abundant Electrocatalysts for Zinc-Air Batteries
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As awareness of global warming increases and the geopolitically influenced energy supply fluctuates, the global economy is in dire need of a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Although renewable energies are sustainable and have favorable environmental impacts, they suffer...
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Fall 2022
A major challenge that plagues nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopists is the inherently low sensitivity of this workhorse characterization technique. This low sensitivity results in long acquisition times and/or costly isotopic-labelling to obtain good resolution and signal-to-noise...
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Design and Synthesis of New Functionalized Boronic Acids for Direct Dehydrative Amidation of Poorly Nucleophilic Amines
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Amide synthesis has been of great interest to chemists as the amide moiety occrus widely in agrochemicals, pharmaceutical agents, and biologically active molecules. Traditionally, amide bond formation requires the use of activated carboxylic acid derivatives or stochiometric amounts of coupling...
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Application of Deuterium Isotope Effects on NMR Parameters as a Method of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond Characterization in Enolic Forms of 1,3-diketones in the Solid State
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The application of deuterium isotope effects on 13C NMR chemical shifts to study the nature of intramolecular hydrogen bonding in the enolic forms of two 1,3-diketones, tetraacetylethane (TAE) and avobenzone, in the solid state is reported. Carbon-13 NMR spectra of natural abundance TAE and...
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Spring 2022
Molecular self-assembly is the basis of structure in Nature. While of far less complexity than a natural system, the same physical rules apply to simple synthetic designed systems that spontaneously form self-assembled structures and patterns. The self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) is an...
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Spring 2022
Life relies on membranes, electron transfer reactions and proton-gradients. To better understand if electron transfer within and proton gradients across a lipid membrane could be achieved with simple, prebiotically plausible components, we synthesized prebiotically plausible neutral metal...
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Investigation of banglenes as neurotrophic agents and development of a new fluorescent protein- based FRET pair
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This thesis describes efforts towards understanding the neurotrophic activity of banglenes and the development of a new fluorescent protein-based FRET pair. Neurotrophic small molecule natural products are functional analogs of signaling proteins called neurotrophins, which cause a pro-growth,...
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From solution to device: processing approaches to boost the photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells
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The world’s growing energy consumption and increasingly visible effects of climate change originated in continued dependence on fossil fuels has strengthened the push to develop cleaner and renewable sources of energy. Solar photovoltaic cells are at the forefront of an ongoing energy transition...