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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Exploring supramolecular Interactions in hybrid materials / Exploration des interactions supramoléculaires dans les matériaux hybrides

Del Rosso, Maria Girolama 06 July 2015 (has links)
Ce travail visait à explorer les interactions supramoléculaires comme un outil dans les domaines de la chimie hôte-invité, les nanomatériaux et les nanotechnologies en général, afin de parvenir à des objectifs différents. D'abord, une interaction classique hôte-invité a été étudiée, au moyen d'une technique innovante telle que l'ITC, puis nous avons exploité les interactions supramoléculaires afin de maitriser la production de graphène exfolié en phase liquide, en mettant un accent particulier sur l'amélioration de la qualité et la quantité du matériau produit. Enfin, nous avons étendu l'utilisation de la chimie supramoléculaire à un dispositif réel par la fonctionnalisation des électrodes d'or avec des molécules photochromiques, ouvrant alors la voie à des dispositifs organiques multifonctionnels, pouvant être contrôlés par la lumière. / This work was aimed at exploring supramolecular interactions as a tool in the fields of host-guest chemistry, nanomaterials and in general nanotechnology, in order to achieve different goals. First, a classical host-guest interaction was studied by means of the ITC technique, then we exploited supramolecular interactions in order to harness the production of liquid-phase exfoliated graphene, with a particular focus on improving the quality and quantity of material produced. Finally, we extended the use of supramolecular chemistry to a real device by functionalization of gold electrodes with photochromic molecules, hence paving the way towards multifunctional organic devices and in prospective to graphene based light-controlled multifunctional devices.
202

Directed Self-Assembly of Gold Nanorods Using Surface Modification

Walker, David A 10 July 2008 (has links)
Metallic nanoparticles are unique materials for optical, electronic, catalytic, and sensing applications. Due to the vast flexibility in controlling the surface chemistry of these particles through functionalization there is a great deal of interest in using metallic nanoparticles as building blocks in the development of more complex nanostructures through the use of a 'bottom-up' approach. Using self assembly techniques, one can exploit spontaneous chemical interactions to build complex constructs on the nanometer scale. Towards this end, gold nanorods have been synthesized and modified with various polymers, inorganic oxides and organic ligands to establish principles for self-assembly of these unique nanomaterials. Gold nanorods are of great interest due to their strong optical absorption in the visible and near infrared regions, which can be tuned through material preparation and modification of the surrounding environment. This thesis focuses on investigating approaches for both irreversible and reversible self-assembly of gold nanorods. Techniques such as dynamic light scattering (DLS), ultraviolet-visible (UV) spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and polarization modulation infrared reflection absorbance spectroscopy (PM-IRRAS) were used to characterize the colloidal particles and gold surfaces. A novel contribution of this work is the successful demonstration of end-to-end linking of gold nanorods in a rapid and reversible manner using a pH responsive polypeptide.
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Assemblage induit en milieu solvant de nanoparticules de silice à patchs : vers de nouvelles molécules colloïdales / Solvent-induced assembly of patchy silica nanoparticles : towards new colloidal molecules

Li, Weiya 24 July 2019 (has links)
Cette étude porte sur l’assemblage de particules à patchs pour obtenir de nouveaux matériaux. L’étatde l’art a permis de choisir et de mettre en oeuvre une stratégie originale dont la force motrice est l’assemblageinduit en milieu solvant, c’est-à-dire basé sur le caractère collant des macromolécules de polystyrène (PS)lorsqu’elles sont soumises à un mélange d’un bon et d’un mauvais solvant. Nous avons étudié l’assemblage enclusters, en chaînes ou en monocouches de nanoparticules (NPs) de silice possédant respectivement un, deux outrois patchs, constitués de macromolécules de PS greffées à des endroits spécifiques de leur surface. Les NPs desilice à un patch, présentant un rapport de taille patch/particule contrôlable, ont été synthétisées avec succès parune étape de séparation de phases induit par gonflement suivie d’un dépôt de silice régiosélectif. Leur assemblagea été réalisé dans des mélanges binaires DMF/éthanol. Les effets de la qualité du solvant, de la force decentrifugation, de la concentration en NPs, de la durée d'incubation et du rapport de taille patch/particule ont étéétudiés et discutés. La stratégie a été étendue pour obtenir des clusters à base d’or. Les NPs de silice à deuxpatchs ont été préparées par un procédé de polymérisation en émulsion ensemencée du styrène et le rapport detaille patch/particule a été ajusté via le taux de recroissance du noyau de silice. L’assemblage en chaînes des NPsa été réalisé dans des mélanges THF/solution aqueuse de NaCl en faisant varier la concentration en NaCl, lerapport volumique THF/eau, la durée d’incubation, la concentration en NPs et le rapport de tailles patch/particule.Nous avons montré que la cinétique de croissance des chaînes est typique d’une croissance par étapes. Desstratégies pour imiter des homopolymères, des copolymères statistiques, des copolymères séquencés à blocs etdes polymères ramifiés ont été mises en oeuvre, en utilisant comme briques de base des NPs à un patch, des NPsà deux patchs avec des tailles ou des fonctions de surface différentes et/ou des NPs à trois patchs. Les NPs desilice à trois patchs ont été obtenues par la même voie de synthèse que celles à deux patchs. Pour les assemblerdans des structures 2-D en nid d'abeille, nous avons utilisé la technique de Langmuir et nous avons étudiél'influence de différents paramètres expérimentaux. Une étape de recuit sous vapeur de THF a été mise en oeuvre,ce qui a permis de renforcer mécaniquement l’assemblage, mais sans effet significatif sur la compacité. / This study deals with the assembly of patchy particles to get new materials. The state-of-the-art allowedus to select and implement an original strategy whose driving force is the solvent-induced assembly, i.e. based onthe stickiness of polystyrene (PS) macromolecules when they are subjected to a mixture of good and bad solvents.We investigated the assembly into clusters, chains or monolayers of one-patch, two-patch or three-patch silicananoparticles (NPs), respectively, the patches being PS macromolecules grafted at specific positions on theirsurface. One-patch silica NPs with controllable patch-to-particle size ratio were successfully synthesised throughphase separation and site-specific silica coating. Their assembly was performed in DMF/ethanol binary mixtures.The effect of the solvent quality, centrifugation force, particle concentration, incubation time and patch-to-size ratiowas investigated and discussed. The strategy was spread to obtain gold-coated clusters. The two-patch silica NPswere prepared through a seed-growth emulsion polymerisation of styrene and the patch-to-particle size ratio wasadjusted through the extent of the silica core regrowth. The chaining of the NPs was efficiently achieved in theTHF/NaCl aqueous solution mixtures by varying the NaCl concentration, solvent quality, incubation time, NPsconcentration and patch-to-particle size ratio. We showed that the kinetics of the chaining process is characteristicof a reaction-controlled step-growth polymerisation. Strategies to mimic homopolymers, random copolymers, blockcopolymers and branched polymers were implemented by using one-patch NPs, two-patch NPs with different sizes/surface chemical functions and/or three-patch NPs as building units. The three-patch silica NPs were obtainedthrough the same synthetic pathway than two-patch ones. For assembling them in honeycomb-like 2-D structures,we used the Langmuir technique.and we studied the influence of different experimental parameters. THF vapourannealing was implemented to reinforce mechanically the assembly but without significative effect on the packingdensity.
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SPR Sensor Surfaces based on Self-Assembled Monolayers

Bergström, Anna January 2009 (has links)
<p>The study and understanding of molecular interactions is fundamentally important in today's field of life sciences and there is a demand for well designed surfaces for biosensor applications. The biosensor has to be able to detect specific molecular interactions, while non-specific binding of other substances to the sensor surface should be kept to a minimum.                                                                                                                                                                                The objective of this master´s thesis was to design sensor surfaces based on self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and evaluate their structural characteristics as well as their performance in Biacore systems. By mixing different oligo (ethylene glycol) terminated thiol compounds in the SAMs, the density of functional groups for bimolecular attachment could be controlled.  Structural characteristics of the SAMs were studied using Ellipsometry, Contact Angle Goniometry, IRAS and XPS. Surfaces showing promising results were examined further with Surface Plasmon Resonance in Biacore instruments.<p>Mixed SAM surfaces with a tailored degree of functional COOH groups could be prepared. The surfaces showed promising characteristics in terms of stability, immobilization capacity of biomolecules, non-specific binding and kinetic assay performance, while further work needs to be dedicated to the improvement of their storage stability. In conclusion, the SAM based sensor surfaces studied in this thesis are interesting candidates for Biacore applications.</p></p>
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Spatially Controlled Covalent Immobilization of Biomolecules on Silicon Surfaces

Pavlovic, Elisabeth January 2003 (has links)
<p>The work described in this thesis aims to achieving surface patterning through chemical activation of thiolated silicon oxide surfaces, resulting in a spatially controlled covalent immobilization of biomolecules with high resolution.</p><p>Existing chemical methods to immobilize molecules on surfaces do not reach below the micrometer scale while the ones allowing for spatial control mostly lead to non-covalent adsorption of molecules on surfaces, or require several successive chemical reactions to obtain the final covalent immobilization. Methods with improved chemical processes and novel surface modification techniques had to be developed. </p><p>A basic need for studying interactions of biomolecules on chemically modified surfaces with high resolution is the ability to obtain a simple, inexpensive method resulting in ultraflat densely packed and reproducible organic monolayers. Therefore, a new method for silicon oxide chemical derivatization, fulfilling these requirements, was developed. </p><p>Thiol derivatized silicon oxide surfaces allow for a diversity of activation reactions to occur, resulting in thiol-disulfide exchange. The electrooxidation of surface-bound thiol groups was investigated as a way of generating reactive thiolsulfinates/thiolsulfonates, by application of a positive potential difference to the silicon surfaces. Peptide molecules containing thiol groups were successfully immobilized to the electroactivated surfaces. In addition, this new chemical activation method offers the possibility to release the bound molecules in order to regenerate the surfaces. Subsequently, the thiolated surfaces can be reactivated for further use.</p><p>Since the activated area depends directly on the size of the electrodes used for the oxidation, nanoscale activation of the thiolated surfaces was performed by use of an AFM tip as counter-electrode. Electrooxidized patterns, with a line width ranging from 70 nm to 200 nm, were obtained. A thiol-rich protein, b-galactosidase, was selectively immobilized onto the electroactivated patterns.</p><p>An electrochemical version of microcontact printing was developed in order to activate large surface areas with micrometer scale patterns. Conductive soft polymer stamps were produced using an evaporated aluminum coating. Patterned electroactivation of thiols was achieved, and polystyrene beads were subsequently specifically immobilized onto the patterns.</p><p>As a conclusion, these different projects resulted in a strategy enabling the achievement of nanoscale and microscale positioning and immobilization of biomolecules on silicon surfaces, with potential reversibility and reuse of the surfaces.</p>
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Spatially Controlled Covalent Immobilization of Biomolecules on Silicon Surfaces

Pavlovic, Elisabeth January 2003 (has links)
The work described in this thesis aims to achieving surface patterning through chemical activation of thiolated silicon oxide surfaces, resulting in a spatially controlled covalent immobilization of biomolecules with high resolution. Existing chemical methods to immobilize molecules on surfaces do not reach below the micrometer scale while the ones allowing for spatial control mostly lead to non-covalent adsorption of molecules on surfaces, or require several successive chemical reactions to obtain the final covalent immobilization. Methods with improved chemical processes and novel surface modification techniques had to be developed. A basic need for studying interactions of biomolecules on chemically modified surfaces with high resolution is the ability to obtain a simple, inexpensive method resulting in ultraflat densely packed and reproducible organic monolayers. Therefore, a new method for silicon oxide chemical derivatization, fulfilling these requirements, was developed. Thiol derivatized silicon oxide surfaces allow for a diversity of activation reactions to occur, resulting in thiol-disulfide exchange. The electrooxidation of surface-bound thiol groups was investigated as a way of generating reactive thiolsulfinates/thiolsulfonates, by application of a positive potential difference to the silicon surfaces. Peptide molecules containing thiol groups were successfully immobilized to the electroactivated surfaces. In addition, this new chemical activation method offers the possibility to release the bound molecules in order to regenerate the surfaces. Subsequently, the thiolated surfaces can be reactivated for further use. Since the activated area depends directly on the size of the electrodes used for the oxidation, nanoscale activation of the thiolated surfaces was performed by use of an AFM tip as counter-electrode. Electrooxidized patterns, with a line width ranging from 70 nm to 200 nm, were obtained. A thiol-rich protein, b-galactosidase, was selectively immobilized onto the electroactivated patterns. An electrochemical version of microcontact printing was developed in order to activate large surface areas with micrometer scale patterns. Conductive soft polymer stamps were produced using an evaporated aluminum coating. Patterned electroactivation of thiols was achieved, and polystyrene beads were subsequently specifically immobilized onto the patterns. As a conclusion, these different projects resulted in a strategy enabling the achievement of nanoscale and microscale positioning and immobilization of biomolecules on silicon surfaces, with potential reversibility and reuse of the surfaces.
207

SPR Sensor Surfaces based on Self-Assembled Monolayers

Bergström, Anna January 2009 (has links)
The study and understanding of molecular interactions is fundamentally important in today's field of life sciences and there is a demand for well designed surfaces for biosensor applications. The biosensor has to be able to detect specific molecular interactions, while non-specific binding of other substances to the sensor surface should be kept to a minimum.                                                                                                                                                                                The objective of this master´s thesis was to design sensor surfaces based on self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and evaluate their structural characteristics as well as their performance in Biacore systems. By mixing different oligo (ethylene glycol) terminated thiol compounds in the SAMs, the density of functional groups for bimolecular attachment could be controlled.  Structural characteristics of the SAMs were studied using Ellipsometry, Contact Angle Goniometry, IRAS and XPS. Surfaces showing promising results were examined further with Surface Plasmon Resonance in Biacore instruments.Mixed SAM surfaces with a tailored degree of functional COOH groups could be prepared. The surfaces showed promising characteristics in terms of stability, immobilization capacity of biomolecules, non-specific binding and kinetic assay performance, while further work needs to be dedicated to the improvement of their storage stability. In conclusion, the SAM based sensor surfaces studied in this thesis are interesting candidates for Biacore applications.
208

A Knudsen cell for controlled deposition of L-cysteine and L-methionine on Au(111)

Dubiel, Evan Alozie 20 November 2006
This thesis details the development of expertise and tools required for the study of amino acids deposited on Au(111), with a primary focus on the design and testing of a Knudsen cell for controlled deposition of L-cysteine and L-methionine. An ultra-high vacuum preparation chamber designed by Dr. Katie Mitchell and built by Torrovap Industries Inc. was installed. This chamber is connected to the existing scanning tunneling microscopy chamber via a gate valve, and both chambers can operate independently. Various instruments such as a mass spectrometer, quartz crystal microbalance, ion source, and sample manipulator were installed on the preparation chamber. Scanning tunneling microscopy was performed on both homemade and commercial Au(111) thin films. High resolution images of "herringbone" reconstruction and individual atoms were obtained on the commercial thin films, and optimal tunneling conditions were determined. A Knudsen cell was designed to be mounted on the preparation chamber. The Knudsen cell operates over the temperature range 300-400K, with temperatures reproducible to ±0.5K, and stable to ±0.1K over a five minute period. Reproducible deposition rates of less than 0.2Ǻ/s were obtained for both L-cysteine and L-methionine. Electron impact mass spectrometry and heat of sublimation measurements were performed to characterize the effusion of L-cysteine and L-methionine from the Knudsen cell. The mass spectrometry results suggest that L-cysteine was decomposing at 403K while L-methionine was stable during effusion. Heats of sublimation of 168.3±33.2kJ/mol and 156.5±10.1kJ/mol were obtained for L-cysteine and L-methionine respectively.
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Well-controlled and well-described SAMs-based platforms for the study of material-bacteria interactions occuring at the molecular scale

Böhmler, Judith 11 September 2012 (has links) (PDF)
Bacterial adhesion is the first step of biofilm formation and in the focus of research interest since several decades. Biofilms cause many problems, sometimes dramatic, for example in health, food packing or waste water purification. Despite of high interest, bacterial adhesion process is only poorly understood yet. In this work, bacterial adhesion was investigated on well-organized and structured model surfaces with various chemistries at molecular scale. For that purpose a characterization methodology was developed to sufficiently analyze monolayers on silicon wafers, and controlled mixed monolayers surfaces with different densities of NH 2 backfilled with CH3 were developed and optimized. These controlled surfaces with different densities of 0 % NH2 up to 100% NH2 were eventually used as tool to study bacterial adhesion in batch and real time conditions. The results demonstrate a significant impact on bacterial adhesion of weak difference in the surface chemistry at molecular scale. In the batch experiments, two so-called "plateaus" zones were determined, in which bacterial adhesion is not significantly different despite the change of the amine concentration on the surface. On the contrary, one transition zone exists between the "plateaus" in which a slight chunge.in the amine concentration leads to a significant increase / decrease of the bacterial adhesion. The same trend of bacteria behavior was observed for different bacterial strains.
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Microfluidic-Based In-Situ Functionalization for Detection of Proteins in Heterogeneous Immunoassays

Asiaei, Sasan January 2013 (has links)
One the most daunting technical challenges in the realization of biosensors is functionalizing transducing surfaces for the detection of biomolecules. Functionalization is defined as the formation of a bio-compatible interface on the transducing surfaces of bio-chemical sensors for immobilizing and subsequent sensing of biomolecules. The kinetics of functionalization reactions is a particularly important issue, since conventional functionalization protocols are associated with lengthy process times, from hours to days. The objective of this thesis is the improvement of the functionalization protocols and their kinetics for biosensing applications. This objective is realized via modeling and experimental verification of novel functionalization techniques in microfluidic environments. The improved functionalization protocols using microfluidic environments enable in-situ functionalization, which reduces the processing times and the amount of reagents consumed, compared to conventional methods. The functionalization is performed using self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of thiols. The thiols are organic compounds with a sulphur group that assists in the chemisorption of the thiol to the surface of metals like gold. The two reactions in the functionalization process examined in this thesis are the SAM formation and the SAM/probe molecule conjugation. SAM/probe molecule conjugation is the chemical treatment of the SAM followed by the binding of the probe molecule to the SAM. In general, the probe molecule is selective in binding with a given biomolecule, called the target molecule. Within this thesis, the probe molecule is an antibody and the target molecule is an antigen. The kinetics of the reaction between the probe (antibody) and the target biomolecule (antigen) is also studied. The reaction between an antigen and its antibody is called the immunoreaction. The biosensing technique that utilizes the immunoreaction is immunoassay. A numerical model is constructed using the finite element method (FEM), and is used to study the kinetics of the functionalization reactions. The aim of the kinetic studies is to achieve both minimal process times and reagents consumption. The impact of several important parameters on the kinetics of the reactions is investigated, and the trends observed are explained using kinetic descriptive dimensionless numbers, such as the Damköhler number and the Peclet number. Careful numerical modeling of the reactions contributes to a number of findings. A considerably faster than conventional SAM formation protocol is predicted. This fast-SAM protocol is capable of reducing the process times from the conventional 24-hours to 15 minutes. The numerical simulations also predict that conventional conjugation protocols result in the overexposure of the SAM and the probe molecule to the conjugation reagents. This overexposure consequently lowers conjugation efficiencies. The immunoreaction kinetics of a 70 kilo-Dalton heat shock protein (HSP70) with its antibody in a hypothetical microchannel is also investigated through the FEM simulations. Optimal reaction conditions are determined, including the flow velocity and the surface concentration of the immobilized probes (antibodies). Based on the numerical results and a series of experimental studies, the fast-SAM protocol application is successfully confirmed. Moreover, the optimum reagent concentration for a given one- hour conjugation process time is determined. This functionalization protocol is successfully applied to immobilize the HSP70 antibody on gold surfaces. The use of the fast-SAM protocol and the predicted optimum conjugation conditions result in binding of the HSP70 antibody on gold, with the same or superior immobilization quality, compared to the conventional protocols. Upon implementation of a 70 μm.s^(-1) flow velocity, the reaction is observed to complete in around 30-35 minutes, which is close to the numerically predicted 30 minutes and 16 seconds. This immunoreaction time is considerably less than conventional 4-12 hour processes. The modified in-situ functionalization techniques achieved here are promising for substantially reducing the preparation times and improving the performance of biosensors, in general, and immunoassays, in particular.

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