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Biofilms on electrodes and crosslinking of bovine pericardium tissue : application to biopower device development and anti-calcification of bioprosthetic valves
(2017-11-24)
Advances in the electrical communications between enzymes and electrodes made it possible to the fabrication of new miniaturized implantable power devices. This thesis is devoted to study and improvement of enzyme electrodes ...
Development and Application of a Computational Method for Determining the Specificity of Glycan-binding Proteins
(2013-09-25)
Changes in cell-surface glycan patterns are markers for the presence of many different disease and cancer types, offering a relatively untapped niche for glycan-targeting reagents and therapeutics in diagnosis and treatment. ...
Properties of electrode-attached biofilms for application to microbial fuel cells
(2015-03-26)
Energy, in any form, plays the most important role in the modern world. We have been dependent on conventional energy sources such as coal and petroleum product for quite a long time. Therefore, there is an alarming need ...
Tailoring surfaces and supports for enzyme electrodes with application to biopower device development
(2014-01-06)
The objective of this thesis was to investigate the integration of enzymes and redox mediators capable of transferring electrons between enzymes and electrodes. This was done with a view to developing a semi- or fully ...
Theoretical chemical kinetic study of the h-atom abstraction reactions from oxygenated species by different radicals
(2014-09-30)
This work presents an ab-initio and chemical kinetic study of the H-atom abstraction reactions of ethers and ketones + HO2 radicals, aldehydes and acids + H atoms, OH, HO2 and CH3 radicals and esters + OH and HO2 radicals. ...
The use of supported photomediators in the generation of carbon radicals for synthetic purposes
(2012-11-05)
Carbon-carbon bond formation is a key step in synthetic organic chemistry and there are many methods available for carrying it out, a number of which involve the use of carbon radicals. Many methods however involve the use ...
Investigating the Structural and Magnetic Characteristics of Polynuclear Complexes including the Solid-State Hosting Abilities of [M7] {M = Ni(II), Zn(II), Co(II/III)} Metallocalix[6]arene Discs.
(2012-11-02)
We report the synthesis, structural and magnetic characterisation of a family of planar, pseudo metallocalix[6]arene disc-like complexes (1-10 and 14-21) of general formula [M7(OH)6(Lx)6](NO3)2 {M = Ni(II), Zn(II), Co(II/III)} ...
Anisotropy resolved multidimensional emission spectroscopy (ARMES) for the analysis and resolution of insulin oligomer emission
(NUI Galway, 2018-11-14)
Protein aggregation is one of the biggest challenges affecting the manufacture and safe use of biopharmaceuticals. Despite efforts made to enhance protein stability [1], aggregation still remains a critical factor in ...
Exploring synthetic strategies towards novel magnetic materials - a structural, magnetic and spectroscopic study
(2015-09-03)
This thesis reports the exploration of various synthetic strategies towards the synthesis of novel magnetic materials, which were studied both structurally and spectroscopically. An outline of results chapters is given ...
Organic photochemistry: synthetic and computational studies
(2014-03-06)
I: In recent years a large number of synthetic methods have been developed which involve carbon radicals. Although many of these methods are synthetically very useful, they suffer from the significant disadvantage that the ...