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Photochemical Sciences Ph.D. Dissertations

Dissertations from 2011 2011

Stable Hetero-Acene Analogs of Heptacene: The Synthesis and Study of their Conductive Properties in Organic Transistors And The Photo-induced Formation of Quantum Dot – Conductive Polymers (QD:CP) for Application in Photovoltaics, Puran De

Synthesis of High Triplet Hosts for Phosphorescent Organic Light Emitting Diodes, Selin Ergun

Part I: Synthesis and Study of Nonacene Derivatives; Part II: Optoelectronic Properties of Metal-Semiconductor Nanocomposites in Strongly Coupled Regime, Dmitriy Khon

Engineering of Semiconductor Nanocomposites for Harvesting and Routing of Optical Energy, Maria Kirsanova

Photoaffinity Labeling Strategies Using Purine Nucleic Acid Bases, Denis Nilov

Early Events in Photochemistry of Aryl Azides Used as Photoaffinity Labeling Agents, Maxim Panov

New Carbazole-, Indole-, and Diphenylamine-Based Emissive Compounds: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and Formation of Nanoparticles, Krishna Panthi

Flavins and Their Analogues as Natural and Artificial Catalysts, Vincent Sichula

Carbazole-Based, Self-Assembled, Π-Conjugated Systems As Fluorescent Micro And Nanomaterials - Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, Emission Enhancement And Chemical Sensing, Karasinghe Upamali

Photoaffinity Labeling Via Nitrenium Ion Chemistry: The Photochemistry of 4-aminophenylazides, Valentyna Voskresenska

Dissertations from 2010 2010

Femtosecond Dynamics of Small Polyatomic Molecules in Solution: A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach, Patrick El-Khoury

Carbazole Based Ambipolar Compounds: A Study of Their Intramolecular Charge Transfer Properties, Leandro Estrada

Oxidation of Nucleic Acids: Chemistry of Purine Quinones and Development of Novel Photooxidizing Agents, Dmitry Komarov

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer for Long-Lived Charge Separation and Photocatalytic Water Splitting, Pavel Kucheryavy

Stimuli-Responsive Polymers, Erandimala Kulawardana

Paranemic and Receptor-Loop RNA Motifs: Versatile Interactions for Biosensing Platforms and Nanotechnology Scaffolds, Irina Novikova

Heteroleptic osmium(II) polypyridine complexes and carbazole-based chromophores as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells, Anthony Onicha

Synthesis and Studies of Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, Cesar Perez-Bolivar

Computational Investigation of the Photoisomerization of Novel N-Alkylated Indanylidene Pyrroline Biomimetic Switches, Mikhail Ryazantsev

Ultrafast Photophysics and Photochemistry Of Hexacoordinated Bromides of Pt(IV), Os(IV), and, Ir(IV) in the Condensed Phase Studied by Femtosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy, Igor Zheldakov

Dissertations from 2009 2009

Photocurrent Spectroscopy of CdS/Plastic, CdS/Glass, and ZnTe/GaAs Hetero-pairs Formed with Pulsed-laser Deposition, Krishna Acharya

Bottom-Up Design of Synthetic Photoactive Metalloproteins, Jiufeng Fan

Spectroscopic Investigation of the Excited State Properties of Platinum(Ii) Charge Transfer Chromophores, Elena Glik

Platinum(II) Terpyridyls: Excited State Engineering and Solid-State Vapochromic/Vapoluminescent Materials, Maria Muro

Sensitizer Molecule Engineering: The Development Of Novel Ru(II) Polypyridyl Complexes for Application in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells, Yali Sun

De Novo Design of Metalloproteins with Variant Hydrophobic Cores, Fei Xie

Characterization of the Metal Binding Properties of De Novo Designed Coiled Coil Metalloproteins, Xianchun Zhu

Dissertations from 2008 2008

Carbazole-Based Emitting Compounds: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties and Formation of Nanoparticles, Ravi Adhikari

Design and Characterization of Novel Bio-Sensor Platform for Sequence Specific, Label-Free, Fluorescent Detection of Native RNA Moledcules, Kirill Afonin

Stabilized Metal Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites: Preparation, Characterization and Potential Applications, Kelechi Anyaogu

Structure and Exciton Coupling in Jet-Cooled Bichromophores, Abdulhamid Hamza

Smart Polymer Materials, Thilini Kuruwita-Mudiyanselage

Materials and Strategies in Optical Chemical Sensing, Manuel Palacios

Design and Synthesis of Organic Materials for Optoelectronics, Sujeewa Palayangoda

Photophysical Properties of Metallotetraphenyltetrabenzoporphyrins: Insights From Experimental and Theoretical Studies, Garusinghe Rajapakse

Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of 3D Substituted Heterohelicenes and their Derivatives, Hu Ying

Dissertations from 2007 2007

Protein-Protein Interactions and Electron Transfer Associated with Cytochrome F and Plastocyanin From the Cyanobacterium Prochlorothrix Hollandica, Maria Baranova

Synthesis and Photophysics of Platinum (II) Diimine Acetylide Complexes, Fei Hua

Platinum(II) Charge Transfer Chromophores: Electrochemistry, Photophysics, and Vapochromic Sensing Applications, Solen Kinayyigit

Synthesis and Study of Higher Poly(Acene)s: Hexacene, Heptacene, and Derivatives, Rajib Mondal

Synthesis and Electro-optical Properties of Novel Materials for Application in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, Victor Montes

Design and Development of Metal-Peptide Nanoscaled Materials, Mikhail Tsurkan

Dissertations from 2006 2006

Design, Characterization, and Electron Transfer Properties of Synthetic Metalloproteins, Jing Hong

Low Power Photoluminescence and Photochemical Upconversion, Radiy Islangulov

Design, Synthesis, and Properties of New Derivatives of Pentacene and New Blue Emitters, Jinyue Jiang

Activation of Enediynes by Photochemical Ring Contraction: Design, Synthesis and Reactivity of Cyclic Enediynes Containing Diazodicarbonyl Moiety, Grigori Karpov

Development of Photocleavable Linker Groups for Application to Photocleavage of Liposomes and of Caging Alcohols and Carboxylic Acids, Anton Kulikov

Synthesis and photochemistry 3,5-dialkyl-3,5-dihydro-3,5-dimethyl-3,5-diphenyl-4H-pyrazol-4-ones, Andrey Moiseev

Photophysical Properties of Metallonaphthalocyanines: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations, Alexandra Soldatova

Development of Photoreactive Organic Compounds with Large Two-Photon Absorption Cross Sections, Nurtay Urdabayev

Dissertations from 2005 2005

Metal-binding Properties of Synthetic Metalloproteins, Olesya Kharenko

Ultrafast Excited State Relaxation Dynamics of Electron Deficient Porphyrins: Conformational and Electronic Factors, Albert Okhrimenko

Novel Radical Peroxyester Photoinitiators: Decomposition Mechanisms and Potential Applications, Dmitry Polyansky

Photochemical, Photophysical, and Electronic Properties of Fused Ring Systems with Alternating Benzene and Thiophene Units, Brigitte Wex