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Nanopores with Fluid Walls for Characterizing Proteins and Peptides.
(2012)
Nanopore-based, resistive-pulse sensing is a simple single-molecule technique, is label free, and employs basic electronic recording equipment. This technique shows promise for rapid, multi-parameter characterization of ...
Investigations of Excited States and Radical Ions in ?-Conjugated Polymers of Interest for Photovoltaic Applications
(2017)
Photovoltaics using polymer semiconductors as active materials require donor/acceptor (D/A) interfaces to convert excitons into freed charges. In the absence of chain defects, excited states and charges migrate most ...
Development & Application of Constant pH Molecular Dynamics (CPHMD ) for Investigating pH-mediated Transient Conformational States and Their Effects on Nucleic Acid & Protein Activity.
(2015)
pH is a ubiquitous regulator of biological activity, with widespread impact ranging from its role in catalysis to carcinogenesis. Traditionally, a combination of biophysical and computational methods are used to measure ...
An Experimental Investigation of Premixed Combustion in Extreme Turbulence
(2017)
This work has explored various aspects of high Reynolds number combustion
that have received much previous speculation. A new high-Reynolds number
premixed Bunsen burner, called Hi-Pilot, was designed to produce ...
Spectroscopic Studies on the Molecular Structural Changes of Plastics and Plasticizers at Model Environmental Interfaces.
(2015)
The mainstream introduction of plastics poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) and poly(styrene) (PS) has been integral to the formation of modern urban infrastructures and the advancement of medical, electronic, and industrial ...
Symmetry and Reformulation: On Intellectual Progress in Science and Mathematics
(2022)
Science and mathematics continually change in their tools, methods, and concepts. Many of these changes are not just modifications but progress---steps to be admired. But what constitutes progress? This dissertation addresses ...
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 ...
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. ...