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The Role of Space Weather in Forming Water from the Potential Lunar Regolith Simulant Rhyolite
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-26)The potential role of the solar wind and space weathering in the formation of water on a lunar surface has been studied by deuteron ion implantation followed by electron bombardment on a silica rich glass surrogate, rhyolite. ... -
Synthetic Strategies Toward Heterocyclic Seven Membered Ring Systems: Building Libraries of Privileged Scaffolds for Medicinal Chemistry and Forensic Analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-14)Natural products are often the inspiration for many pharmaceutical compounds as they are found to have drug-like properties. Many times, these compounds exhibit structural commonalities and are therefore referred to as ... -
Assessment of Mars Analogue Instruments and Biosignatures in Icelandic Mars Analogue Environments: Implications for Astrobiology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-13)To search more efficiently for a record of past life on Mars, it is critical to know where to look and thus maximize the likelihood of success. Large-scale site selection for the Mars 2020 mission has been completed, but ... -
Probing Heme Signaling Dynamics Using Fluorescent Heme Sensors
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-13)Long considered to be a static protein cofactor, a growing body of evidence suggests that heme may function as a dynamic signaling molecule. To elucidate heme-based signal transduction, a library of genetically encoded ... -
Synthesis and Characterization of Solid-State and Molecular Quantum Magnetic Materials
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-09)F-element magnetic materials are crucial for the next-generation applications, such as the design of the single-molecule magnets, topological insulators, the heavy-fermion superconductors, and high-coercivity hard magnets. ... -
Synthesis, reactivity and polymerization of bridged bicyclic twisted amides
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-08)Amides are generally robust and hydrolytically resistant due to the nN-to-π*C=O conjugation. Twisted amides represent an unusual subclass of amides containing distorted, non-planar amide bonds as a consequence of geometric, ... -
Doping of Organic Semiconductors: Effects of Crosslinking and Dopant Substituents
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-15)Doping is the process of addition of dopants to host semiconductors to improve their conductivity and charge transport behavior. Organic solids are held together by weak van der Waals interactions between the molecules ... -
Tunable Magnetic Properties of Spinel Ferrite Nanoparticles: Ferromagnetic Resonance and Physical Model of Magnetic Permeability
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-07)Spinel ferrite nanoparticles have been widely applied in high frequency applications such as microwave absorption, signal filter, etc. The design of spinel ferrites with various properties has been a hot topic to satisfy ... -
Unprotected Carbohydrate Conversion to Polyhydroxyalkyl Furans and Dihydrofurans: Improvement, Expansion, and Interruption of the Garcia Gonzalez Reaction via Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-11-18)Biomass conversion of carbohydrates will lay the foundation for the future of materials, chemicals, and fuels. The Garcia Gonzalez reaction, an undervalued reaction coupling carbon nucleophiles with aldose sugars, can be ... -
Synthesis and Spectroscopic Characterization of Low- to High-Valent Weak-Field Lanthanide Complexes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-11-01)Redox chemistry and valence electronic structure of the lanthanides in molecular complexes is a rapidly expanding field of research. The contemporary understanding of the accessible oxidation states of the lanthanide ... -
Tuning the electronic properties and redox chemistry of late transition metal and f-element molecular compounds using weak-field ligands
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08-30)This thesis focuses on the use of weak-field ligands as a synthetic tool to access molecular tetravalent lanthanide compounds that can be studied spectroscopically and electrochemically to address broader questions pertinent ... -
Phase-Controlled Synthesis of Ruthenium and Palladium Nanocrystals
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-06-21)The utility of noble-metal nanocrystals in applications ranging from catalysis to biomedical applications has increased with the ability to finely tune their shapes and sizes. In particular, the catalytic activity of the ... -
Rapid Susceptibility Testing from Blood-Derived Samples
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-28)Bacterial bloodstream infections contribute to global mortality and morbidity in large part due to the rapid development of antimicrobial resistance. Constrained to bacterial burdens of 1-10 colony-forming-units of bacteria ... -
Precipitation Dynamics at the Solution-Solution Interface in Confined Geometries, and the Effects of Organics on Precipitate Evolution
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-07)Precipitate produced by the interaction of aqueous reactant solutions in a microchannel is evaluated through instrumental analysis and numerical modeling. Instrumental analysis of analogs of iron sulfide, iron carbonate, ... -
Investigation of Charge Transport in Conjugated Organic Materials
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-06-21)The demand for energy has increased dramatically with increase in population and industrialization. However, relying on traditional fossil fuels to meet those demands lead to climate change becoming an existential threat ... -
Sub-Stoichiometric Titania as a Viable Support for Pt Electrodes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-18)The growing demand for fossil fuels has resulted in inevitable environmental consequences along with the gradual depletion of fuel sources. As a result, extensive efforts are focused on developing environmentally benign ... -
Experimental Predictions of Ribosomal Evolution
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-02)Translation and the ribosome are universal and necessary components of biology. Testing the predictions of models that detail the evolution of translation and the ribosome can provide us with a fundamental understanding ... -
Leveraging C-X Bonds for Triggered Eliminations, Alkene Functionalizations, and Intramolecular Cyclizations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-02)Chemists continue to take inspiration from nature when it comes to finding and creating biologically relevant compounds. Two branches of organic synthesis—methodological development and target-oriented syntheses—serve ... -
Exploration of the chemodiversity and microbial composition in marine sponges
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-20)The marine sponge holobiont, comprising of the invertebrate eukaryotic sponge animal and the microbial symbionts, is a prolific producer of small organic molecules called natural products. The tremendous structural diversity ... -
Exploring Acceptor-Acceptor Metal Carbenes in The Synthesis of Nitrogen Heteroaromatic Scaffolds
Due to their ubiquitous presence in bioactive molecules, the development of new methodologies for the synthesis of nitrogen heteroaromatic scaffolds is key to the field of organic chemistry. In this thesis, acceptor-acceptor ...
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