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An Exploration of Solution-Based SERS with Gold Nanostars for Quality Control in the Cannabis Industry
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The recent legalization of cannabis and cannabis consumables in Canada presents a new analytical challenge for quality control of cannabis products. A high-performance analytical tool for such purposes would be crucial for the rapidly expanding Canadian and global cannabis markets. This project...
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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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Fall 2022
Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNC) are abundant, renewable, and highly crystalline by-products from the forestry industry. CNCs are known to have excellent thermal and mechanical properties which have been exploited in a variety of applications across numerous fields, such as drug delivery, photonics,...
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Characterization of Cellulose Nanocrystals and Their Application in Polyethylene Composites
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Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) are an emerging green nanomaterial with a unique property set that permits its use to enhance traditional materials in various ways. One of the main focuses has been to impart the incredible mechanical stiffness of these nano particles into conventional thermoplastic...
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Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Electron Transport Through Diazonium Derived Films and Mixed – Mode Bonded Layers on Gold and Carbon Surfaces
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For Molecular Electronics to become a viable replacement or complitment to current elec- tronic devices a fundamental understanding of device operation and functionality is needed. This work explores electron transport through diazonium derived molecular junctions via conductive atomic force...
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Spring 2013
Electrografting permits bonding of an organic film to a conductive substrate. It is therefore important to control the formation of organic films as best as possible and to understand the linkage between the organic film and the substrate as best as possible. This work explores electrografting of...
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Exploring Atomic Force Microscopy To Probe Charge Transport Through Molecular Films And For The Development Of Combinatorial Force Microscopy
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Since the invention of the atomic force microscope (AFM), this technology has had profound implications in the study of material science and molecular biology. The ability to visualize and perform quantitative analysis of the nanoscale properties of surfaces has provided great insights into...
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Spring 2010
New methods to fabricate nanometer sized structures will be a major driving force in transforming nanoscience to nanotechnology. There are numerous examples of the incorporation of nanoscale structures or materials enhancing the functionality of a device. Graphitic carbon is a widely used...
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Fall 2012
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are at the forefront of many research areas and generally require very specific surface functionalities to be compatible with targeted applications. Suitable modification schemes should be simple, fast, and robust. A common surface modification involves the use of...
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Modification and Application of Gold Nanorods in Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Based Assays
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Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is an ultrasensitive vibrational spectroscopic technique to detect molecules on or near the surface of plasmonic nanoparticles. More recently, this technique has been used to design novel nanoprobes named “SERS labels” that combine metallic nanoparticles...