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Synthesis Of Self-Immolative Monomers And Their Applications In Polymeric Materials, Matthew A. Dewit
Synthesis Of Self-Immolative Monomers And Their Applications In Polymeric Materials, Matthew A. Dewit
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Self-immolative spacers are a unique class of molecules employed in a variety of applications, particularly in the biomedical field. Most commonly, they are molecules containing two reactive termini with a capping group at one terminus and a substrate of interest at the other. Upon removal of the capping group, the spacer undergoes an intramolecular reaction that results in its removal from the molecule and liberation of the substrate. These spacers have been extensively studied in monomeric form within prodrugs, as well as to form dendrimers that have been used for applications such as signal amplification, molecular logic gates and amplified …
Scanning Probe Microscopy Studies Of The Properties Of Conducting Polymers, Kevin D. O'Neil
Scanning Probe Microscopy Studies Of The Properties Of Conducting Polymers, Kevin D. O'Neil
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Electronically conducting polymers (ECPs) have been growing in interest as important materials for a variety of different applications such as charge storage devices and photovoltaics. However, in all of these applications, the performance of conducting polymers are strongly dependent upon their local properties such as morphology, local conductivity and carrier mobility, local chemical composition, etc. All polymer materials feature a distribution of these parameters and therefore, they are considered heterogeneous. In this work, we use atomic force microscopy (AFM) and its related techniques such as current-sensing AFM (CS-AFM), Kelvin probe force microscopy (KFM) and phase imaging (PI-AFM) to directly investigate …