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Molecular Mechanisms of Bioadhesion, Bifouling, and Anti-Bifouling.
(2016)
Biofouling, the accumulation of biomolecules and organisms to surfaces underwater, is a major problem to the government because it can result in damaged ship hulls, drag force that slows ships down, and higher cost for ...
The Development and Investigation of Catalytic Photochemical Radical Reactions Mediated by Visible Light.
(2014)
Metal-based polypyridyl photocatalysts such as [Ru(bpy)3]Cl2, [Ir(ppy)2(dtbbpy)]PF6, [Ir{dF(CF3)ppy}2(dtbbpy)]PF6, and fac-Ir(ppy)3 have been shown to be effective for the cleavage of C–Y bonds (Y = Cl, Br, I, O, N, P, ...
Manipulating Solubility and Dissolution through Multicomponent Crystallization.
(2016)
Chemical entities can be arranged into different packing motifs, leading to variation in properties of solid materials. Therefore, solid form optimization is a critical approach to material development. Here crystallization ...
Developing Metrology for Nondestructive Characterization of Buried Polymer Interfaces in Situ.
(2016)
Polymers are widely used in modern microelectronics as adhesives, organic substrates, chip passivation layers, insulating dielectric materials, and photoresists in microlithography. The interfacial structures of polymer ...
Observations of Coherence in Oxygenic Photosynthesis.
(2014)
The field of two dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) is rapidly advancing, both in theory and implementation to tackle increasingly complex and delicate problems. In the past seven years, observations of coherent ...
Transition Metal-Catalyzed Fluorination/ [18]fluorination and Decarbonylative Carbon Heteroatom Bond Formation
(2016)
The development of novel methods to incorporate fluorine and fluoroalkyl groups into
organic molecules is highly desirable, as these substituents can impart unique stability,
reactivity and biological properties. Over the ...
Redox Activation of C–C and C–H Bonds Using Visible Light.
(2016)
Carbon-carbon and carbon-hydrogen bonds constitute essential components of organic frameworks and impart significant amounts of chemical inertness and stability to complex architectures. These bond types are common, and ...
Adsorption and Reduction of Actinides on Iron and Aluminum (oxyhydr)oxides.
(2015)
Mineral-water interface geochemistry plays a critical role in the understanding the integrity of underground geologic repositories where nuclear waste will be disposed of. This dissertation seeks to provide a fundamental ...
Using Small Molecules and Peptides as Chemical Tools to Study Metal-Amyloid, Membrane-Amyloid, and Peptide-Amyloid Interactions.
(2016)
Amyloid proteins are a family a proteins that are characterized by the misfolding an intrinsically disordered monomer subunit into an ordered beta-sheet fibril. Recent evidence has suggested that the monomer and fibril ...
An Antibiotic Discovery Campaign Targeting VirF, the Main Transcriptional Regulator of Virulence in Shigella flexneri
(2016)
Shigella flexneri is a gram-negative enteropathogen that infects the human colonic epithelium. It is estimated that Shigella spp. infect 165 million people a year worldwide. Symptoms of shigellosis include bloody dysentery, ...