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Structural Characterization and Impedance Spectroscopy of Substituted, Fused-Ring Organic Semiconductors.
(2011)
Organic materials present a number of advantages over silicon that make them ideal candidates for modest performance devices like active matrix backplanes and RFID tags. The work detailed here describes both structural ...
Prediction and Design of Colloidal Matter using Directional Entropic Forces.
(2015)
We study the effect of entropic forces in the preferential binding of colloidal building blocks towards the assembly of target structures. By using methods developed to calculate the potential of mean force and torque, we ...
Structure-Property Relationships in Clay/Polymer Dispersions: Characterizing Bulk and Nanoscale Changes.
(2013)
Colloids and polymers are often used in industrial applications such as pharmaceuticals, food, paints, cosmetics and drilling fluids to achieve the desired properties. The work presented in this thesis focuses on the study ...
Understanding the Optical and Photophysical Properties of Organic and Hybrid Macromolecules and Polymers for Solar Cell Application
(2021)
Organic solar cell materials represent a better sustainable alternative relative to inorganic materials in terms of lower cost, ease of large-scale processing, better absorptivity, ease of tunability, and unique flexibility ...
Continuum-Scale Modeling of Rechargeable Batteries
(2020)
During the operation of a rechargeable battery, the electrochemical reactions occur at the interface between the electrolyte and the active material in the electrode. The electrochemical performance of such batteries is ...
Computational Discovery of Solid Electrolytes for Batteries: Interfacial Phenomena and Ion Mobility
(2020)
Solid-state batteries (SSBs) using a solid electrolyte (SE) and Li-metal anode are promising technologies that can increase energy density and minimize safety concerns for applications such as electric vehicles. Although ...
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 ...
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 ...
Design Principles for Nanocrystal Assembly Using Anisotropic Building Blocks
(2020)
Self-assembly of soft matter is a phenomena that can be influenced by multiple factors including particle shape, ligand decoration and thermodynamic properties such as temperature and pressure. In this highly anisotropic ...
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 ...