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  • Structure-property relationships of layered oxypnictides

    Creator:
    Muir, Sean W.
    Abstract:
    Investigating the structure-property relationships of solid state materials can help improve many of the materials we use each day in life. It can also lead to the discovery of materials with interesting and unforeseen properties. In this work the structure property relationships of newly discovered layered oxypnictide phases are presented...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Carbon Nanodots as Biolabels for Fluorescence Immunoassays

    Creator:
    Wu, Yuanyuan
    Abstract:
    There has been a tremendous growth in interest in carbon nanodots (C-dots) in the past several years. As a nascent nanomaterial, C-dots have shown great promise in applications that benefit from their superior water dispersibility, low toxicity, non-blinking fluorescent output, chemical and biological compatibility, ease of functionalization and resistance to...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Aqueous niobium chemistry at low pH : new precursors for oxide thin films

    Creator:
    Park, Deok-Hie
    Abstract:
    Phosphate and peroxide stabilize new oxo-hydroxo niobium clusters in water at low pH. The clusters open a new chapter in aqueous niobium chemistry under acidic conditions. The clusters also produce atomically smooth, amorphous niobium oxide phosphate (NbPOx) thin films. Reaction pathways from cluster solutions to amorphous niobium oxide phosphate solids...
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    Dissertation
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    , Y.; Zhang, Y.; Hu, X. Structural , Morphological and Electrochromic Properties of Nb2O5 Films

  • Himeradine A : synthetic efforts towards himeradine A and related natural products, a Michael reaction focused approach

    Creator:
    Collett, Nathan D.
    Abstract:
    Lycopodium alkaloids have generated enormous amounts of interest from the scientific community, both as synthetic targets and for their medicinal properties. Herein is described work towards a unifying approach to large segments of the Lycopodium family. An organocatalyzed intramolecular heteroatom Michael reaction method, for the construction of piperidine and piperizine...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    , 46, 27. (l) Pan, Q.-B.; Ma, D.-W. Chin. J. Chem. 2003, 21, 793. (m) Kaneko, S.; Yoshino, T.; Katoh

  • Suspect Screening of Hydrocarbon surfactants in AFFFs and AFFF-Contaminated Groundwater by High Resolution Mass Spectrometry

    Creator:
    Garcia, Raymmah A.
    Abstract:
    Aqueous film forming foams (AFFFs) are proprietary mixtures containing hydrocarbon surfactants and per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) that are used to extinguish hydrocarbon-based fuel fires. There is limited information on hydrocarbon surfactants in AFFFs and AFFF-contaminated groundwater even though they are more abundant (5-10% w/w) than PFASs (0.9-1.5% w /w) in...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Gold Nanostars: Spectroscopic and Physical Properties

    Creator:
    Zhou, Lixia
    Abstract:
    Tethering fluorophores on metal nanoparticles for metal enhanced fluorescence (MEF) has attracted a lot of attention from scientists interested in fluorescence based approaches. MEF has many benefits in fluorescence related techniques, because the analytical signal increases and enables potentially lower detection limits or better sensitivity. Many types of nanoparticles have...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Studies towards the total synthesis of (-)-gymnodimine

    Creator:
    Wang, Guoqiang
    Abstract:
    Studies towards the total synthesis of (-)-gymnodimine (1), a marine neurotoxin with a unique molecular architecture and pronounced biological activity, are described. These studies resulted in a convergent approach to the advanced intermediate 315, containing the C3-C32 section of 1. Two synthetic routes were developed to construct the tetrahydrofuran subunit...
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    Dissertation
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    . 15. a) Hu, T.; Curtis, J. M.; Oshima, Y.; Quilliam, M. A.; Walter, J. A.; Waston- Wright, W. M

  • Effects of small molecule ligands on the conformational dynamics of the Farnesoid X Receptor ligand binding domain (FXR-LBD)

    Creator:
    Yang, Liping
    Abstract:
    The Farnesoid X Receptor (FXR) is a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily of transcription factors that plays a key role in the regulation of bile acids, lipid and glucose metabolisms. The regulative function of FXR is governed by conformational changes of the ligand binding domain (LBD) upon ligand binding....
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • New Graphite Intercalation Chemistry with Ethers and Amines

    Creator:
    Zhang, Hanyang
    Abstract:
    Novel donor-typed ternary graphite intercalation compounds (GICs) are synthesized and characterized containing (1) pyrrolidinium cations with DMSO co-intercalates; (2) alkali metal cations with crown ether co-intercalates; and (3) alkali metal cations with polyethylene glycol co-intercalates. Structural and compositional data are obtained for the stable products. A new ether-amine co-intercalate exchange...
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    Dissertation
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    for assistance with CZE, Prof. Chin-Hung Chang and Dr. Changqing Pan for assistance with Raman

  • Phenolic oxidative coupling : an approach to the synthesis of pretazettine

    Creator:
    Chong, Wesley Kwan Mung
    Abstract:
    Various hypervalent iodine compounds were evaluated as reagents for intramolecular phenolic oxidative coupling. It was found that phenyliodine(III) bis(trifluoroacetate) was effective for the coupling of the monophenolic substrate 13a to 14a under neutral conditions. Vanadium oxytrifluoride and hypervalent iodine compounds were compared as oxidants for the conversion of 32 to...
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    Dissertation