Browsing by Subject "Nanoscience"
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A Theoretical and Experimental Study of DNA Self-assembly
(2012)The control of matter and phenomena at the nanoscale is fast becoming one of the most important challenges of the 21st century with wide-ranging applications from energy and health care to computing and material science. ... -
Attentional Biases in Value-Based Decision-Making
(2014)Humans make decisions in highly complex physical, economic and social environments. In order to adaptively choose, the human brain has to learn about- and attend to- sensory cues that provide information about the potential ... -
Contaminant Interactions and Biological Effects of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes in a Benthic Estuarine System
(2013)Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) are highly ordered filamentous nanocarbon structures. As their commercial and industrial use becomes more widespread, it is anticipated that SWNT will enter the environment through waste ... -
Copper-Based Nanowires for Printable Memory and Stretchable Conductors
(2018)In the field of electronic materials, metal nanowires have been extensively studied for both their syntheses and their properties in electronic composites and devices. This dissertation addresses challenges in the field ... -
Design Optimization of Encapsulating 3D DNA Nanostructures with Curvature and Multi-layers
(2022)DNA origami has been a paradigm-shifting technique for synthesizing and manipulating matter with nanoscale precision. The simple design principle of using numerous short (<100 nts) oligonucleotides to "fold" a long (>1000 ... -
Development of Methods for Biomedical Diagnostics and Therapy using Plasmonic Nanoplatforms
(2023)Plasmonic nanoplatforms have fundamentally changed the landscape of biomedical sciences, particularly in the fields of early disease detection and treatment. Metallic nanoparticles with unique geometries and compositions ... -
Electron Transport through Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots in A Dissipative Environment
(2012)The role of the surroundings, or <italic> environment </italic>, is essential in understanding funda- mental quantum-mechanical concepts, such as quantum measurement and quantum entanglement. It is thought that a dissipative ... -
Engineering Exquisite Nanoscale Behavior with DNA
(2012)Self-assembly is a pervasive natural phenomenon that gives rise to complex structures and functions. It describes processes in which a disordered system of components form organized structures as a consequence of specific, ... -
Foundational Studies of the Deposition of Metal-Halide Perovskite Thin Films by Resonant Infrared, Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation
(2020)Metal-halide perovskites (MHP) comprise a diverse family of crystalline materials whose optoelectronic properties have gathered significant interest recently. Their use in transistors, solar cells, light emitting diodes, ... -
Functionalization of DNA Nanostructures for Cell Signaling Applications
(2014)Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) is an important cytokine responsible for a wide range of different cellular functions including extracellular matrix formation, angiogenesis and epithelial-mesenchymal transition. ... -
Gallium-based Ultraviolet Nanoplasmonics
(2013)Nanometer-scale metallic structures have been widely and intensively studied over the last decade because of their remarkable plasmonic properties that can enhance local electromagnetic (EM) fields. However, most plasmonic ... -
Growth, Characterization, and Properties of Hybrid Graphene-Carbon Nanotube Films and Related Carbon Nanostructures
(2016)Graphene, first isolated in 2004 and the subject of the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics, has generated a tremendous amount of research interest in recent years due to its incredible mechanical and electrical properties. However, ... -
Impact of Particle Aggregation on Nanoparticle Reactivity
(2011)The prevalence of nanoparticles in the environment is expected to grow in the coming years due to their increasing pervasiveness in consumer and industrial applications. Once released into the environment, nanoparticles ... -
Lasing From Single Film-Coupled Nanoparticles
(2022)Plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials have found many applications as small-scale sources of controllable emission. Of particular interest is utilizing these types of structures as potential coherent radiation sources. ... -
Lights, Camera, Reaction! The Influence of Interfacial Chemistry on Nanoparticle Photoreactivity
(2016)The ability of photocatalytic nanoparticles (NPs) to produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) has inspired research into several new applications and technologies, including water purification, contaminant remediation, and ... -
Localized DNA Computation
(2017)Recently, solution-based systems for DNA computation have demonstrated the enormous potential of DNA nanosystems to do computation at the molecular-scale. These use DNA strands to encode values and use DNA hybridization ... -
Manipulation of Nonlinear Optical Processes in Plasmonic Nanogap Cavities
(2020)Nonlinear generation of optical fields has enabled many exciting breakthroughs in light science such as nonlinear imaging, all-optical switching and supercontinuum generation. The intrinsic nonlinear response from bulk materials ... -
Mapping Sensitivity of Nanomaterial Field-Effect Transistors
(2020)As society becomes increasingly data-driven, the appetite of individuals, corporations, and algorithms for data sources swells, strengthening the demand for sensors. Chemical sensors are of particular interest as they provide ... -
Metamaterials Analysis, Modeling, and Design in the Point Dipole Approximation
(2017)This dissertation is focused on applying the discrete dipole approximation to modeling metamaterial structures and devices. In particular, it is focused on modeling the linear and nonlinear behavior of one particular kind ... -
Modification and Scaling of Metal Contacts to 2D Materials Using an In-Situ Argon Ion Beam
(2019)Graphene, the wonder material, has captured the spotlight of electronics researchers since its discovery. Even though it has proven to be unfit for use in digital transistors, one of graphene’s lasting contributions is that ...
