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Full-Text Articles in Analytical Chemistry
Total Internal Reflection: Applications In Nonlinear Microscopy And Fluorescence Anisotropy, Brandon Colon
Total Internal Reflection: Applications In Nonlinear Microscopy And Fluorescence Anisotropy, Brandon Colon
Doctoral Dissertations
As technology advances to harness new energies and to create new cures, the sophistication of analysis grows not only in depth but in efficiency. Total internal reflection (TIR) has been coupled to microscopy leveraging its unique optical phenomenon on a breadth of topics. In this dissertation, the work presented will show how TIR was applied in two different instrumental analyses to evaluate two unique and complex systems. The first project features TIR paired with the transient absorption microscopy (TAM), a nonlinear optical technique, to gauge solvent mixing and diffusion in microreactors. Microreactors gained acclaim for their ability to produce high …
Instrument Development For High Sensitivity Size Characterization Of Lipid Vesicles And Other Biological Macromolecules Via Taylor Dispersion Analysis, Meagan Moser
Doctoral Dissertations
Just as humans communicate with other humans, the cells in our bodies communicate with each other through various, often complex, mechanisms. Cell-to-cell transmission of small molecules, lipids, proteins, peptides, or nucleic acids can be mediated by extracellular lipid vesicles called exosomes. Exosomes have been found to play a role in the delivery of regulatory molecules from one cell to another, serving as a universal communication mechanism. Currently, there is an emerging focus on characterizing exosome communication dynamics. Understanding exosome mechanisms of cell-to-cell communication requires accurate measurements of the spatiotemporal and chemical dynamics of exosome secretion. No current analytical approach offers …
Ultrasound-Driven Fabrication Of Nanosized High-Entropy Materials For Heterogeneous Catalysis, Francis Uchenna Okejiri
Ultrasound-Driven Fabrication Of Nanosized High-Entropy Materials For Heterogeneous Catalysis, Francis Uchenna Okejiri
Doctoral Dissertations
High-entropy materials (HEMs) have emerged as a new class of multi-principal-element materials with great technological prospects. As a unique class of concentrated solid-solution materials, HEMs, formed on the premise of incorporating five or more principal elements into a single crystalline phase, provide an excellent opportunity to access superior catalytic materials ‘hiding’ in the unexplored central regions of a multicomponent phase space of higher orders.
However, the fabrication of HEMs is energy-intensive, typically requiring extreme temperatures and/or pressures under which agglomeration of particles occurs with a commensurate decrease in surface area. For most catalytic applications, non-agglomerated particles with high surface areas …
Analytical Considerations And Methods For Comprehensive Analysis Of Bacterial Phospholipidomics Using Hilic-Ms/Ms, David Thomas Reeves
Analytical Considerations And Methods For Comprehensive Analysis Of Bacterial Phospholipidomics Using Hilic-Ms/Ms, David Thomas Reeves
Doctoral Dissertations
Omics technologies have rapidly evolved over the last half century through vast improvements in efficient extraction methodologies, advances in instrumentation for data collection, and a wide assortment of informatics tools to help deconvolute sample data sets. However, there are still untapped pools of molecules that warrant further analytical attention. As the frontline defense of the cell against exterior influences, the phospholipid membrane is key in structure, defense, and signaling, but current omics studies are only just now catching up to the potential hidden within cellular lipid profiles. Examination of shifts in phospholipid speciation and character could provide researchers with a …
Characterization Techniques And Cation Exchange Membrane For Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Battery, Kun Lou
Characterization Techniques And Cation Exchange Membrane For Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Battery, Kun Lou
Doctoral Dissertations
The motivation of this work comes from one of the major problems of emerging non-aqueous flow battery (NAFB) that a separator or membrane which facilitates conductivity and blocks redox species crossover does not exist. Although many aspects of principles can be mirrored from mature fuel cell and aqueous flow battery, it is found that some well-defined membrane properties in aqueous systems such as swelling, transport and interactions are different in non-aqueous solvents to some extent. However, the approach of this work does follow the way perfluorosulfonate ion exchange membrane (PFSA) facilitated development of fuel cell and aqueous flow battery in …