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Optical And Scanning Probe Studies Of Isolated Poly (3-Hexylthiophene) Nanofibers, Mina Baghgarbostanabad
Optical And Scanning Probe Studies Of Isolated Poly (3-Hexylthiophene) Nanofibers, Mina Baghgarbostanabad
Doctoral Dissertations
Plastic electronics have an essential role in the future technologies owing to their compelling characteristics such as light weight, biocompatibity, low cost fabrication, and tunable optoelectronic properties. However, the performance of polymer-based devices strongly depends on the efficiency of exciton formation and dynamics that are themselves strongly sensitive to polymer molecular packing and structural order. Therefore, the current challenge in achieving high efficiency is establishing a correlation between molecular packing and exciton coupling. P3HT nanofibers represent an attractive platform for studying optical and electronic properties of exciton coupling because their nominal (highly crystalline) internal chain packing structure is known. A …
A Molecular Simulation Study On Micelle Fragmentation And Wetting In Nano-Confined Channels, Mona Habibi
A Molecular Simulation Study On Micelle Fragmentation And Wetting In Nano-Confined Channels, Mona Habibi
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
We performed coarse-grained molecular-dynamics (MD) simulations to study the structural and dynamical properties of surfactant micelles in equilibrium and under Poiseuille-like flow in a nano-confined geometry. We used the MARTINI force-field to model the interactions between water molecules, counter-ions, and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) surfactants. SDS surfactant was chosen as the standard model because of its potential application in drug delivery systems. First, we focused on the self-assembly of SDS in equilibrium. To form stable spherical mi- celles, we ran simulations in the isothermal-isobaric ensemble (NPT) on a system of free SDS surfactants, counter-ions and water molecules. We studied the …
X-Ray Structure, Thermodynamics, Elastic Properties And Mdsimulations Of Cardiolipin/Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine Mixedmembranes, Alex Boscia, Bradley Treece, Dariush Mohammadyani, Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Anthony Braun, Beate Kloesgen, Tsjerk Wassenaar, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle
X-Ray Structure, Thermodynamics, Elastic Properties And Mdsimulations Of Cardiolipin/Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine Mixedmembranes, Alex Boscia, Bradley Treece, Dariush Mohammadyani, Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Anthony Braun, Beate Kloesgen, Tsjerk Wassenaar, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle
Prof. Stephanie Tristram-Nagle Ph.D.
tCardiolipins (CLs) are important biologically for their unique role in biomembranes that couple phos-phorylation and electron transport like bacterial plasma membranes, chromatophores, chloroplasts andmitochondria. CLs are often tightly coupled to proteins involved in oxidative phosphorylation. The firststep in understanding the interaction of CL with proteins is to obtain the pure CL structure, and the struc-ture of mixtures of CL with other lipids. In this work we use a variety of techniques to characterize the fluidphase structure, material properties and thermodynamics of mixtures of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine(DMPC) with tetramyristoylcardiolipin (TMCL), both with 14-carbon chains, at several mole percentages.X-ray diffuse scattering was used to …