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Catanionic surfactant vesicles have gained attention due to their structural similarities to liposomes and their robust properties in biological media. Catanionic vesicles are formed from oppositely charged surfactants ...

Nanoparticles have received considerable interest due to the wide variety of potential applications in biomedical, optical, and electronic fields. However, our capabilities for quantitatively charactering these materials, ...

Transdermal drug delivery has created new applications for existing therapies and offered an alternative to the traditional oral route where drugs can prematurely metabolize in the liver causing adverse side effects. Opening ...

In order to improve upon the resolution of photolithography, a technique that is used to produce features for today's micro and nanodevices, techniques must move beyond e-beam and deep-UV sources. Multiphoton absorption ...

The increased demand for a more sustainable energy infrastructure has spurred the development of innovative energy conversion processes and devices, such as the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). PEMFCs are highly ...

Polymer exchange membrane fuel cells have the potential to replace current fossil fuel-based technologies in terms of emissions and efficiency, but CO contamination of H2 fuel, which is derived from steam methane reforming, ...

Plasmonic nanoparticles with collective excitations of the conduction-band electrons have many potential applications in surface­enhanced spectroscopies, photocatalysis, photovoltaics, and biomedicine. The plasmonic ...

Utilizing sustainable and clean solar energy in the visible-NIR range to drive chemical transformation has been a key resolution to solve the energy crisis. Recently, rational design of photocatalysts that conjugate plasmonic ...

This thesis demonstrates the application of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) as single-digit nanopores for molecular sieving and addresses a fundamental challenge pertaining to controlled synthesis of organic ...