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Purely Organic Triplet Emitters: From Fundamental Molecular Design to Performance Amplification in Modern Applications
(2022)
Emissive materials are the essential functional components in many modern and emerging technologies such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), solid-state lighting, sensors, and data encryption. Metal-free purely organic ...
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 ...
Computational and Theoretical Advances in Accurately Modeling Molecular Wave Functions
(2023)
Throughout the past few decades, the use of theoretical methods has become standard practice in the chemical disciplines. This thesis addresses developments in quantum chemical methods for studying challenging electronic ...
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 ...
Optical and Magnetic Manipulation of Hybrid Micro and Nanoparticle Sensors.
(2008)
Microparticles and nanoparticles have been used in a wide variety of applications ranging from biomedical to optical and electronic technologies. The microscopic and mesoscopic size scale of single particles makes them ...
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 ...