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- Page 23 and 24: Abstract Nanostructured, Electroact
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Figure 1-2. Proposed schematics of
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Figure 1-4. IUPAC classification of
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prepare mesoporous silica materials
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Hot solvent extraction provides ano
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gaseous molecules with an increased
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pre-prepared by dissolving a design
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a TA Instruments Hi-Res TGA 2950 (T
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data show that about 70 wt % of wei
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hysteresis loop at relative pressur
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the desorption branch of the sample
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mesoporous materials. We have carri
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26. Schuth, F.; Ber. Bunsen.-Ges. P
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Table 2-2. Weight loss and pore par
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Weight (%) 100 90 80 70 60 0 100 20
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Weight (%) 100 90 80 70 60 50 0 100
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Weight (%) 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 0
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Volume Absorbed (cm -3 g -1 ,STP) 5
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Volume Adsorbed (cm 3 g -1 , STP) 4
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Net Surface Area (m 2 g -1 ) 800 70
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(a) (b) Figure 2-14. Representative
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3.1.1. Silica Sphere from Sol-Gel P
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acidity environment favoring the sp
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powders and subjected to solvent ex
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spherical silica particles with 50
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Norcross, GA) at -196 °C. Prior to
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Table 3-1 summarizes the compositio
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ottle neck blocking effect. The rep
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possibility to come into contact wi
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catalyst development. The hollow co
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27. Hunter, H. M. A.; Garcia-Bennet
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Table 3-1. Composition of the sol-g
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Figure 3-2. Representative IR spect
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dV/dD (cm3 g -1 nm -1 ) 0.20 0.16 0
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(a) (b) (c) Figure 3-6. Representat
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(a) (b) (c) Figure 3-8. Typical SEM
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4.1.1. Gold Nanoparticles in Sol-Ge
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absorbed on a nanoparticle surface
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physical/chemical properties of gol
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from the stirring plate. Approximat
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porous silica matrices over the gol
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107 In all, with the introduction o
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silicas prepared by nonsurfactant t
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gold particles in the nanocomposite
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2. Y. Wei; Q. Feng; S. Cheng; K.-Y.
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36. Valden, M.; Lai, X.; Goodman, D
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Table 4-1. Compositions and pore pa
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Figure 4-2. N2 adsorption-desorptio
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Figure 4-4. Powder XRD patterns for
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(a) (b) (c) (d) 123 Figure 4-6. A s
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Chapter 5. Organic-Inorganic Nanoco
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127 Nanometer scale phases provide
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organic modified silica nanoparticl
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131 To obtain nanocomposite thin fi
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the particles together, leading to
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different polymerization time inter
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analysis, the degree of ordering ap
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139 12. Faloss, M.; Canca, M.; Geog
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solvent casting & self assembly Nan
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143 Figure 5-3. Representative AFM
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Figure 5-5. Representative AFM imag
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Figure 5-7. Representative energy d
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Chapter 6. Bioapplicable Conducting
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starting materials as well as the n
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iocompatibility of these materials
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155 Collagen proteins are composed
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distilled water. Upon drying in a v
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changed the color from pale green t
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oad band centered around 1530 cm -1
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than on the PANI coated one. Based
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processing and device fabrication.
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28. Baldacci, S.; Matsuno, T.; Toko
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169 62. Wallace, G. G., Spinks, G.
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Figure 6-2. The protonation and red
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(a) (b) (c) (d) 173 Figure 6-4. Com
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Figure 6-6. FT-IR comparison spectr
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(b) Figure 6-8. Comparison AFM imag
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Chapter 7. Synthesis and Characteri
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Materials that were generally used
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elatively simple due to the single
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layer of materials such as copper p
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prepare phosphate buffer solution.
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The reduction of ligands can be eas
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mass measurement. While attempting
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compounds, since we noticed that on
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195 To prevent the re-oxidation of
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with mass spectroscopy. By introduc
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199 20. Recent reviews: (a) Friend,
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201 51. Hopkins, T.A.; Meerholz, K.
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Figure 7-1. Structures of new ligan
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Figure 7-3. Synthetic scheme for li
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Figure 7-5. NMR Spectrum of ligand
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Figure 7-7. Representative UV-Vis s
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Absorbance 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 y = 12
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Figure 7-11. Mass spectrum of alumi
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215 Figure 7-13. Mass spectra of al
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template selection, pH and composit
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the removal of template, the silica
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which depends on size distribution.
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Appendix A. Stimuli-Responsive Poly
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iocompatible polymer matrices, 2 wh
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different side groups. By ring-open
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A.2.3. Stimuli-Responsive Polymers
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A.3.1.1. Signal 231 Temperature and
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233 conventional polyphosphazene de
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A.3.2. Experimental 235 The synthes
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eplaced with fresh buffer using syr
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materials, organic-inorganic hybrid
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24. Lee, Y. M.; Shim, J. K. Polym.
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Figure A-2. Two fundamental routes
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Figure A-4. Release mechanism for g
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Appendix B Electrochemistry Measure
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Figure B-1. Rotating disk (Hg on Au
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Figure B-3. Cyclic voltammogram (Pt
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Figure B-5. Rotating disk (Hg on Au
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Figure B-7. Cyclic voltammogram (Pt
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Vita 257 Shan Cheng was born in Bei