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Tailoring Nanoparticles And Polymers For Cooperative Interfacial And Surface Interactions, Irem Bolukbasi
Tailoring Nanoparticles And Polymers For Cooperative Interfacial And Surface Interactions, Irem Bolukbasi
Doctoral Dissertations
This thesis describes the synthesis of chemically functionalized nanoparticles and their behavior at interfaces and in conjunction with polymers. Solid-liquid, liquid-liquid, and air-liquid interfaces are useful platforms for studying nanoparticle assembly, especially when nanoparticles are functionalized to enable their segregation to the interface. At the liquid-liquid interface, double emulsions droplets, both oil-in-water-in-oil and water-in-oil-in-water, stabilized with nanoparticles were prepared. This involved gold nanoparticles stabilizing oil-in-water droplets, and CdSe quantum dots stabilizing water-in-oil droplets. These double emulsion droplets were by simply shaking to give polydisperse droplets, or in a well-defined fashion by microcapillary flow focusing. When nanoparticle-stabilized double emulsions were sized …
Nanomedicine, Mark Tuominen
Nanomedicine, Mark Tuominen
Nanotechnology Teacher Summer Institutes
An overview of nanomedicine. The end goal of nanomedicine is improved diagnostics, treatment and prevention of disease. Nanotechnology holds key to a number of recent and future breakthroughs in medicine.