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Uncovering Hidden Dynamics in Living Systems Using Bayesian Statistics and Single-Molecule Microscopy
(2019)
Fluorescence microscopy is a powerful technique for understanding the organization, structure and dynamics of cells. Single-molecule imaging techniques extend our ability to probe cellular systems down to a range of only ...
Mid-Infrared Pulse Shaping and Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy of Open Quantum Systems in Liquid Solution.
(2012)
The primary focus of this work is the development of a mid-infrared pulse shaping system. The primary motivation for this system is for two-dimensional infrared (2DIR) spectroscopy, however, the mid-infrared pulse shaper ...
The Plasma Water Reactor: A Geometric Approach to Scaling Electric Discharges for Water Treatment
(2019)
Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are established disinfection methods that can remove contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) by producing hydroxyl radicals and other reactive oxygen species (ROS) in situ. Production ...
Interactions Between Fluorescent Molecules and Plasmonic Nanoparticles: A Super-Resolution Study
(2017)
Single-molecule super-resolution imaging techniques play an increasingly important role in studying complex fine structures, dynamics and interactions in nanoscale confined spaces. The resolution of this technique can be ...
Probing Heat Transport and Energy Conversion at the Atomic and Single Molecule Scale
(2018)
The study of heat transport and energy conversion constitutes an important subject in modern physics and engineering research. The widely-applied Fourier’s and Planck’s laws have proven to be very useful to describe heat ...
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Fuel Injector Tip Wetting as a Source of Particulate Emissions in Gasoline Direct-Injection Engines
(2019)
Gasoline fuel film deposited on the tip of a fuel injector, i.e. injector tip wetting, has been identified as a significant source of particulate emissions at some operating conditions of gasoline direct-injection engines. ...
Hsp70 chaperone Proteins and their Interactions with Various Drugs as Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
(2011)
Chaperone proteins and their cochaperones are perhaps one of the most intriguing systems for investigation. Ubiquitous in nature, they can be found in every organism and that perhaps is the reason that their sequence shows ...
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Phase and Structural Transitions in Model Lung Surfactant Mixtures.
(2010)
Lung surfactant (LS) is a complex mixture of lipids and proteins that reduces and regulates the surface tension in the lungs, thereby decreasing the work of breathing. A thorough understanding of LS function is critical ...
Solid State NMR Investigations of Lipid Bilayers and Biomembrane Binding Molecules: Dendrimers and Amylin.
(2010)
The goal of this project was to investigate the interaction between lipid binding molecules, such as peptides and drug compounds, with biological lipid bilayers. The results demonstrate that human amylin, a peptide hormone ...
Cartesian Treecode Algorithms for Electrostatic Interactions in Molecular Dynamics Simulations.
(2010)
This thesis is concerned with algorithms for evaluating the Coulomb potential en- ergy and forces due to interacting charged particles in molecular dynamics (MD) sim- ulations. We consider Cartesian treecode algorithms ...