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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"inorganic materials"”.
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Interactions between cancer cells and inorganic materials
… premise, this work developed a range of surface materials based around silica which are both compatible with in vitro culture and capable of presenting a range of surface chemistries (hydroxyl, methyl. phenyl, amino) to which the cell response in terms of proliferation, adhesion, motility and …
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Thermodynamic and kinetic examinations of inorganic materials formation
Inorganic materials formation is the result of a complicated interplay between thermodynamics and kinetics. Improved understanding of such factors can aid the synthesis of target materials and the discovery of new materials. Here, techniques for carrying out time-resolved studies were developed and …
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Synthesis of Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials by Self-Assembly
… the nanostructure, morphology of organic and inorganic materials grown in ordered organic matrices. The matrix is a binary system of water and the nonionic surfactant of oligo(ethylene oxide) n&d1; oleyl ether. Initial studies were conducted on mineralization of a calcium phosphate mineral at …
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Engineered biomolecular interactions with inorganic materials : sequence, binding, and assembly
… capabilities for integrating advanced materials into medicine and electronics. In particular, peptides have exhibited the ability to specifically bind to and/or control the synthesis of diverse inorganic and metallic materials including those with electronic, magnetic, and optical …
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Nanostructured hybrid organic/inorganic materials by the nanobuilding blocks (NBB) approach
The thesis work aimed to find appropriate syntheses procedures for the preparation of Nano Building Blocks (NBB) and Nano Particles (NP), starting from organo silanes as molecular precursors, using the Sol-Gel method. NBB were obtained by either non-hydrolytic or in situ water production (ISWP) …
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Towards rational design of peptides for selective interaction with inorganic materials
… shown great promise for engineering and ordering materials at the nanoscale. These molecules, inspired from natural biomineralization systems, are now commonly selected against non-natural inorganic materials through biopanning random combinatorial peptide libraries. Unfortunately, the challenge …
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Sorption of selected inorganic materials on raw and retorted oil shales
… Continuous-flow, elution trials showed that most inorganics monitored were flushed from the columns of shale in the first 5 to 8 pore volumes of effluent.
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Positron Annihilation lifetime studies of inorganic materials using a new positron beamline
… and characterisation of a positron beamline for materials studies. This beamline, now operational, has been developed to measure the positron lifetime in a target material. This technique, referred to as Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS), allows the size of open volume type …
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Positron Annihilation lifetime studies of inorganic materials using a new positron beamline
… and characterisation of a positron beamline for materials studies. This beamline, now operational, has been developed to measure the positron lifetime in a target material. This technique, referred to as Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS), allows the size of open volume type …
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Design and Characterisation of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials for Luminescence Downshifting Devices
… matrix is commonly composed of organic polymeric materials; however, these can suffer from poor processability and durability to long-term UV exposure. An alternative to this is the use of hybrid organic-inorganic materials, which owing to their combined inorganic and organic components show …
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Developing next generation, non-toxic, inorganic materials for photovoltaics and thin-film transistors
… this thesis is on developing two next-generation inorganic materials for thin-film device applications, namely photovoltaics and thin-film transistors. Both of these device applications are crucial in today’s technology-based society with photovoltaics enabling sustainable generation of …
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GEANT4-based model and experimental validation of positronium lifetime in organic and inorganic materials
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Development and validation of a computational approach to predicting the synthesis of inorganic materials
The concept of computational materials design envisions the identification of chemistries and structures with desirable properties through first-principles calculations, and the downselection of these candidates to those experimentally accessible using available synthesis methods. While …
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Tunable Electronic Excitations in Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials: Ground-State and Many-Body Perturbation Approaches
<p>Three-dimensional (3D) Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites (HOIPs) have been investigated intensively for application in photovoltaics in the last decade due to their extraordinary properties, including ease of fabrication, suitable band gap, large absorption, high charge carrier mobility, etc. …
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Application of the Coupled Dipole Method for Predicting Swelling and Exfoliation Behavior of Layered Inorganic Materials
… the swelling and exfoliation behavior of layered inorganic materials is the van der Waals (vdW) interaction. The vdW force, considered to be a weak interaction in many cases, has a strong influence on the structure and properties of colloidal and nano-materials, especially the swelling and …
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Machine Learning Enabled Inorganic Synthesis Planning and Materials Design
The discovery and design of materials is essential for addressing important societal problems in areas such as energy, biomedicine, and computing technology. Data-driven synthesis planning with machine learning is a key step in the design of novel inorganic compounds with desirable properties. …
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The synthesis and characterization of metal chalcogenide-pedot: pss polymer composites for thermal energy conversion
… polymer composites as possible thermoelectric materials for thermal energy conversion; specifically, Te, Bi2Te3, Bi2S3, and Ag2Te. The inorganic materials have high Seebeck coefficients while the PEDOT:PSS has high electrical conductivity. This approach allows for optimization of electrical …
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The sonochemical synthesis of inorganic and biological materials
… of bubbles in a liquid. New biological and inorganic materials can be synthesized using this unusual high energy source.
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