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This dissertation seeks to determine fundamental differences between lanthanides and actinides, as well as how their bonding influences ligand selectivity, for possible actinide separations from nuclear waste. The f-elements are...
Simulation is valuable since it can provide a link between theory and experiment. Whereas, com- puter modeling is based on theory and is limited to simple models, we can explore many physical properties in a parallel way to experiment....
Nanocrystals such as semiconducting quantum dots and gold nanoparticles have attracted a lot of attentions due to their unique size- and shape- dependent optical properties. They have been used in various of biological applications such...
Halide perovskite materials have emerged in the past few years as promising materials in the absorption layer of photovoltaic cells and new emissive materials for use in light emitting diodes (LEDs). This is due to their rapidly...
In the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, it has been emphasized that the continued production of nuclear materials is and will continue to be an essential part of American interest and policy. Necessarily, the cleanup and environmental...
CrgA is a small helical membrane protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and known to recruit other cell division proteins to the divisome, a substantial protein complex for Mtb cell division. There is a lack of information about...
Our research aimed at exploiting spectroscopic techniques in order to characterize and determine the electronic and vibrational properties of chromium(VI) oxides (precursor to the Phillips catalyst) dispersed on an amorphous silica...
With recent progress in clinical proteomics, mass spectrometry (MS)-based methods have been widely implemented in diagnosis of diseases which offers high specificity that conventional clinical tests lack. The recent development of high...
In this dissertation, liquid chromatography and solid phase extraction – mass spectrometry (LC and SPE-MS) techniques are applied for rapid quantitation of four glucose-regulating hormones secreted from human islets of Langerhans. The...
Exploring the Relationship between Polymer Topology and Ionic Conductivity: Novel and Precise Five-Carbon Spacing Polymer Electrolytes in Lithium-Ion Battery Applications
This dissertation will be mainly exploring the relationship between polymer topology and ion transport properties of single-ion conductors (SICs) in lithium-ion battery application. Specifically, we strive to understand the impact of...
Itinerant magnetism occurs in materials that exhibit a spontaneous polarization of the electronic structure due to the destabilization effect of a large peak in the Density of States at the Fermi level. This itinerancy is difficult to...
Two important applications of the f elements lie in the separation of the components comprising spent nuclear fuel, and f element use as radionuclides in nuclear medicine. Two ligand systems applying to each of these applications are...
While the electrochemical energy storage systems are paving their ways to solve the existing theoretical energy and power challenges, alternative cell chemistries are highly desirable. Lithium-Ion Capacitors (LIC) and Hybrid Lithium-Ion...
The central focus of this thesis is a study of materials with competing magnetic interactions and understanding how these interactions affect the overall magnetic behavior of solids. Understanding the fundamental factors that can be used...
The work in this dissertation presents a chiral separation method for the quantitative measurement of primary amines secreted from murine islets of Langerhans along with whole brain tissue and astrocytes. Primary amines, including amino...
Polyelectrolytes are polymers consisting of charged repeat units resulting in a net charge for the macromolecules. Mixing oppositely charged polyelectrolytes creates polyelectrolyte complexes (PEC). Different types of complexes can be...
Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR) is a powerful tool for the study of chemical structure and dynamics. The interactions that manifest in NMR spectra are anisotropic (i.e., orientation dependent) in origin, often resulting in...
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