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Understanding the Effects of Engineered Nanomaterials on Mammalian Cells and Plants Using a Mass Spectrometry Based Approaches
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Nanotechnology focuses on the development and application of materials in the nanoscale range. Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are usually defined as particles of 1-100 nm in size in at least one dimension, which have been ...
Chalcogenopyrylium Dyes for Multiplex Biosensing
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has gained recognition as a biomedical imaging technique because of its sensitivity and multiplexing capabilities. By sensing multiple disease biomarkers at once, early disease ...
Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly of Cofacial Porphyrin Prisms as Oxygen Reduction Catalysts
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
This thesis encompasses a suite of coordination-driven self-assembled porphyrin prisms differing in the molecular clips linking two porphyrin faces in a cofacial arrangement. The goal of this work was to apply the facile ...
Determining Conformational Preferences of Shape-Persistent Aromatic Oligoamides and Folding of Aromatic Oligoureas with Ion-Pair Associations
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
The synthesis and characterization of folding aromatic oligoamides with reducedconstraint, ion-pair associations and solvent-mediated folding of aromatic oligoureas, andoligoamides with unique conformational variations ...
Exploring the versatile role of doubly resonant sum frequency spectroscopy in molecular characterization of self-assembled and solid interfaces
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopy is a nonlinear linear optical technique used, in general, to study the resonant infrared frequencies of chemical systems which lack centrosymmetry at the molecular ...
MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS INTO THE CATALYTIC MECHANISM AND INHIBITION OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS ISOCITRATE LYASE
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative organism for tuberculosis, is responsible for the highest mortality rate among bacterial pathogens. Persistent M. tuberculosis infections depend on the glyoxylate shunt, a ...
Phosphorescent Chromophores as Structural Tectons for Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly Leading to Emergent Photophysical Properties.
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Coordination-driven self-assembly is a synthetic methodology that allows for the creation of metallacycles and metallacages from component Lewis-acid acceptors and Lewis-basic donors as building blocks, or tectons. By using ...
Boron, Boron Hyperdoped Silicon and Silicon Nanoparticle Synthesis by Laser Pyrolysis with Applications in Energy Storage
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
This dissertation presents three examples of how laser pyrolysis synthesis can be used to develop new nanomaterials for energy applications. In the first chapter, we will discuss synthesis, characterization and application ...
Analysis of f Element Compound Bonding and Properties Through Localized Orbital Descriptions By Density Functional Theory and Relativistic Multi-Configurational Wave Function Theory
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Various theoretical methods are employed in the analysis of the role of the f shell in chemical bonding and properties in lanthanide and actinide systems. Density functional theory calculations are parameterized and applied ...
MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY IMAGING ANALYSIS OF LIPIDS AND NEUROTRANSMITTERS IN PI-88 TREATED TRAUMATICALLY INJURED MURINE SPINAL CORDS
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) was used and described herein, to analyze traumatically injured mouse spinal cords, ...