Browsing Chemistry (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Visualisation of Emergent Grain Boundaries on Cu (111) Surfaces
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2023)While nanocrystalline materials offer numerous advantages in various applications due to their superior properties, the presence of grain boundaries inherent to these materials can have a detrimental impact on their ... -
Selective Deposition: Fabrication of Coherent Nano-Dimensioned Metal Oxide Films by Monolayer Polymer Brush Template Assisted Inclusion
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Selective fluorescent chemosensors and iodinated contrast agents : biological evaluation for cellular zinc detection, microdamage detection and imaging
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 2004)This thesis entitled "Selective Fluorescent Chemosensors and lodinated Contrast Agents: Biological Evaluation for Cellular Zinc detection, Microdamage Detection and Imaging" has been divided into six Chapters. Chapter 1 ... -
Selective Mineralisation by Hydrothermal Methods
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)The use of hydrothermal synthesis has led to the control of the size and shape of various materials of inorganic nature. It has also been highlighted as a green, cheap, and reliable synthetic method, by using water in ... -
Self-assembled Lanthanide luminescent Cyclen Complexes, from material to biological application
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2021)The Thesis is entitled Self-assembled Lanthanide Luminescent Cyclen Complexes, from Material to Biological Application covers the formation of different Ln(III) cyclen based complexes and self-assembly and their applications ... -
Semi-synthetic Approaches to N-Glycosylation: A Story of Thiol-Ene Methodology, and Interferon-γ
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)The following thesis, entitled “Semi-synthetic Approaches to N-Glycosylation: A Story of Thiol-Ene Methodology, and Interferon-γ” is composed of six chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the key concepts ... -
Single-walled carbon nanotubes and photo switchable spiropyrans : novel multifunctional platforms for sensing and biological applications
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 2011)Over the last years the applications of chemically modified carbon nanotubes have considerably expanded and progressed in both material and biomedical science. A vast number of SWNTs based materials have been rationally ... -
Single-walled carbon nanotubes as novel NIR fluorescent probes for biomedical optical imaging
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Solution-state Anion Binding Studies of Urea- and Amide-based Hydrogen-bonding Receptors for the Design of Supramolecular Assemblies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2019)This work investigates urea- and amide-based hydrogen-binding systems as small-molecule anion-binding receptors, as part of a project in the Gunnlaugsson group to develop complex molecular assemblies built around the ... -
Solvent-Engineered Tin(II) Oxide for Applications in Energy Storage Devices
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2023)With the global economy finally accepting of the harm caused by fossil fuels to the planet as a whole and the reality that they are a finite resource, ambitious plans are being made to transition to carbon-neutral economies ... -
Spectroscopic and Crystallographic Evaluation of Ruthenium(II) Complexes Bearing Phenanthroline-Naphthalimide Ligands
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2023)Spectroscopic and Crystallographic Evaluation of Ruthenium(II) Complexes Bearing Phenanthroline-Naphthalimide Ligands Deirdre Ann McAdams This Thesis predominantly focusses on the design, synthesis, and characterisation ... -
Stannyl porphyrins, ferrocenyl porphyrins and nonplanar porphyrins : synthesis and photophysical properties
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 2012)The aim of this work was to synthesis the tin porphyrins, ferrocene porphyrins and nonplanar multiporphyrins arrays. The next step was to investigate their photophysical properties. -
Strain modification of surface electronic states measured with scanning tunnelling spectroscopy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2021)Scanning tunnelling microscopy is a surface science tool that allows topographic imaging of a conductive surface on an atomic scale, enabling real space visualisation of surface reconstructions. As it is based on quantum ... -
Strategic design of conjugated polymer materials for sensors and solid-state lighting
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 2016)Conjugated polymers (CPs) have shown extreme promise in a range of applications such as optical sensors and light-emitting devices due to their exceptional optoelectronic properties, low cost and solution processability. ... -
Strategies towards the synthesis of linear tetrapyrroles and the reactions of substituted pyrroles with sulfuryl chloride
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 2010)The research undertaken in the present study describes the synthesis of bilins from easily obtainable starting materials using robust methods and the unusual reaction of SO2CI2 with tetrasubstituted pyrroles. -
Structural Diversity in Metal-Organic Frameworks and Metal-Organic Polyhedra with 1,3,5-Triethynyl-Benzene Based Linkers
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2023)The study of metal-organic frameworks and metal-organic polyhedra is a rapidly evolving area of research. The research presented in this thesis serves to further our understanding of these advanced materials with the primary ... -
Structure and conformation of photosynthetic pigments and related compounds. Conformation analysis of chlorophyll derivatives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2019)The computational program, Normal-Coordinate Structural Decomposition (NSD), provides meaningful information that allows a comparative analysis about the conformation of tetrapyrroles. Their conformation has an intrinsic ... -
Structure-self-assembly-function relationships of azobenzene photosurfactants
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2019)Self-organisation of individual molecules into supramolecular systems is an attractive approach to design stimuli-responsive materials. This thesis aims to understand and predict the self-assembly behaviour of surfactants ... -
Studies of a series of Benzene-1,3,5-derivatives and some other supramolecular building blocks and their self-assembly properties
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2021)This thesis, titled Studies of a series of Benzene-1,3,5-derivatives and some other supramolecular building blocks and their self-assembly properties , describes the synthesis and characterisation of novel tripodal systems ... -
Studies on asymmetric organocatalytic processes: desymmetrisation, kinetic resolution and dynamic kinetic resolution
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 2011)The design and synthesis of small organic molecules which effectively mimic the hydrogen-bonding capabilities of enzymes has recently become a flourishing branch of the fascinating, emerging area of organocatalysis. Herein ...