Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Chemistry"
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(2020-04-03)Department: ChemistryNanocrystals retain many of the desirable characteristics of their bulk counterparts but offer advantages in ease of processing and property manipulation for end-of-line applications. The family of semiconductor nanocrystals ...
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(2020-04-03)Department: ChemistryThe iron sulfides are the most earth abundant naturally occurring metal sulfides with a wide range of properties and thereby applications. However, relative to other metal chalcogenides, the iron-sulfur system is poorly ...
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(2009-04-14)Department: ChemistryFor decades, researchers have been searching for alternative methods to ameliorate the rate of waste production and the cost of spending commonly associated with nanofabrication facilities across the world. Estimated to ...
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(2023-08-22)Department: ChemistrySepsis is life-threating organ dysfunction because of an abnormal host response to infection. Patient response is heterogeneous, so better prognostic indicators could help develop more effective treatments. African ...
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Polar and ionic liquid crystals based on the [closo-1-CB9H10]– and [closo-1-CB11H12]– boron clusters (2015-04-05)Department: ChemistryThe subject of this dissertation is the development and evaluation of polar and ionic liquid crystals derived from boron clusters for electrooptical and anisometric ion transport applications. Liquid crystal is a state ...
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(2010-06-07)Department: ChemistryWhile traditional polyesters, such as poly(lactic acid) and poly(glycolic acid), have long been of interest for the development of nanoparticles as effective drug delivery devices, they are restricted in their utility due ...
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(2015-12-04)Department: ChemistryThe polymerization of glycidol has been studied for some time due to the numerous uses for the product polymer species, including the transportation of drug molecules and biological cargo, biomineralization, and even solid ...
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(2022-07-12)Department: ChemistryPreparation of Oligosaccharides and Related Structures Cleo Sabrina Evans Thesis under the direction of Professor Steven D. Townsend Aeromonas veronii is a gram-negative bacterial species known to cause disease in humans ...
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(2013-12-03)Department: ChemistryThe presynaptic, cocaine- and amphetamine-sensitive dopamine (DA) transporter (DAT, SLC6A3) controls the intensity and duration of synaptic dopamine signals by rapid clearance of the neurotransmitter back into presynaptic ...
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(2019-03-25)Department: ChemistryCHEMISTRY Probing Molecular Structure with Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2D IR) provides a powerful tool capable of examining how molecular structure relates to function ...
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(2017-07-31)Department: ChemistryGold nanoparticles conjugated to short sensing strands of DNA have been successfully applied to therapeutic silencing and intracellular detection of disease-associated mRNAs. These biomedical applications are possible ...
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(2011-09-20)Department: ChemistryThe dissertation contained herein describes the synthetic efforts towards the total synthesis of the cytotoxic macrolide ammocidin D. Ammocidin D, isolated by Hayakawa and coworkers in 2009 from the culture broth of ...
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(2010-12-20)Department: ChemistryIn 1998, Hori and coworkers1 reported a small group of pseudodimeric aromatic polyketides, named hibarimicins, which are produced by Microbispora sp found in a soil sample. This group consisted of more than ten components. ...
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(2014-11-05)Department: ChemistryMarineosin A is a biologically active natural product with a novel and complex structure. Many attempts to synthesize marineosin A without success have been reported. The Lindsley lab has completed a 21-step synthesis ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: ChemistryProgress toward the total synthesis of marineosins A and B, prodigiosin-like alkaloids with novel spiroiminal centers, is described. The synthesis of the proposed biosynthetic precursor was completed and the viability of ...
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(2015-12-22)Department: ChemistryUpenamide is a marine alkaloid natural product isolated in 2000 from the marine sponge Echinochalina sp. Protolithospongia. Spectral analysis of the marine alkaloid by the Scheuer group determined the structure upenamide ...
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(2010-04-12)Department: ChemistryThis thesis covers the work done in our lab towards the synthesis of two unique natural products. The first project is the work towards Baumycin in an attempt to elucidate some structural information. We have worked on ...
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(2012-07-27)Department: ChemistryMitomycin C is a clinically used antitumor natural product isolated from <i>Streptomyces caespitosus</i>. The biological activity and synthetic challenge of mitomycin C has generated broad interest in its chemical synthesis. ...
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(2012-07-26)Department: ChemistryComputational methods that allow application of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy data for protein structure prediction were developed. An implicit cone-model for the spin label enabled EPR distance ...
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(2011-01-12)Department: ChemistryCHEMISTRY PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF METASTATIC MELANOMA BY MALDI IMAGING MASS SPECTROMETRY WILLIAM MICHAEL HARDESTY Dissertation under the direction of Professor Richard M. Caprioli Classification of ...