Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 2018. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 32-34). / Current work within Strano Research Group shows that single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) wrapped with methacrylic acid-styrene heteropolymer (MA-ST) can be used for specific corona phase molecular recognition (CoPhMoRe) of Vardenafil, a small molecule drug. This project is a follow-up study on viability of related polymers for CoPhMoRe sensing of five small molecule drugs: Fluticasone, Sumatriptan, Valacyclovir, Vardenafil, and Bupropion. Methacrylic acid-vinylphenylboronic acid (MA-VBA) heteropolymer and acrylic acid-styrene (AA-ST) heteropolymer were synthesized at different monomer ratios and chain lengths. These polymers were suspended with the carbon nanotubes and screened against the five drugs. The (12,1) chirality of MA-VBA-4 and (7,5) chirality of AA-ST-2 were found to be potential candidates for sensing of Fluticasone and Vardenafil respectively. However, MA-ST 8 remains as the superior choice for the specific sensing of Vardenafil. / by Jessica H. Sun. / S.B.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/119068 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Sun, Jessica H |
| Contributors | Michael S. Strano., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering. |
| Publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 34 pages, application/pdf |
| Rights | MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission., http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 |
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