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Carbon-on-Gold Films and Spontaneous Adsorption of Aryldiazonium Salts for Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing
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Over the past decades, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technology has gained popularity as a powerful analytical technique for the study of biomolecular interactions and medical diagnostics. This is made possible thanks to the well-established gold-thiolate chemistry. However, the limited...
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Dependence of the Interfacial Adhesion between Two Different Types of Material on their Electron Work Function and Electrical Conductivity
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We observed and investigated a novel interfacial phenomenon related to the dependence of interfacial bonding or adhesive force (Fad) between two substances on the difference in their Electron Work Functions (EWF) or Δφ, and developed a model to quantify such a dependence. First, using...
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Probing the Surface Interaction Mechanisms of Air Bubbles and Oil Droplets with Hydrophobic Polymers, Asphaltenes and Bitumen
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Interfacial interactions among solid particles, gas bubbles and liquid drops play a critical role in numerous interfacial phenomena and biophysical and industrial processes, such as drug and gene delivery in biological systems, froth flotation and oil/water separation in mining and oil extraction...
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Spring 2012
Group 14 semiconductor nanocrystals exhibit size-dependent optoelectronic properties through the influence of quantum size effects, notably intense photoluminescence (PL). A crucial step toward the realization of their technological potential is the development of effective methods to control the...
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Spring 2018
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...