Developing adhesives that can function underwater remains a major challenge for bioengineering; yet, many marine creatures, exemplified as mussels and… Continue reading Self-Assembled Nanofibers for Strong Underwater Adhesion: the Trick of Barnacles
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Carbon nanodots (CDs) are a novel family of nanomaterials exhibiting unique optical properties. In particular, their bright and tunable fluorescence… Continue reading Disentangling Size Effects and Spectral Inhomogeneity in Carbon Nanodots by Ultrafast Dynamical Hole-Burning
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
The synthesis and photophysical properties of two luminescent Cu(I) coordination polymers, [Cu2I2(PPh3)2(3‐tpyb)]n and [Cu2I2(PPh3)2(4‐tpyb)]n (Cu‐3‐tpyb and Cu‐4‐tpyb; PPh3 = triphenylphosphine,… Continue reading Mechanochromic Switching between Delayed Fluorescence and Phosphorescence of Luminescent Coordination Polymers Composed of Dinuclear Copper(I) Iodide Rhombic Cores
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
3-Methyl-4-aza[6]helicene (A6H) enantiomers were synthesized and proposed as high-performance visible light photoinitiators and/or photosensitizers for the free radical polymerization (FRP)… Continue reading Visible Light Chiral Photoinitiator for Radical Polymerization and Synthesis of Polymeric Films with Strong Chiroptical Activity
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Here, naphthalene diamine-based β-diketone derivative (compound LH) was successfully used as a dual signaling probe for divalent cations, Fe2+ and Cu2+ ions,… Continue reading On/Off Fluorescent Chemosensor for Selective Detection of Divalent Iron and Copper Ions: Molecular Logic Operation and Protein Binding
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
UV, circular dichroism (CD), fluorescence and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) spectra were recorded for a set of four related [2.2.1]… Continue reading Experimental and Calculated CPL Spectra and Related Spectroscopic Data of Camphor and Other Simple Chiral Bicyclic Ketones
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
We have shown that fullerene (C60) becomes soluble in water by mixing fullerene and amyloid β peptide (Aβ40) whose fibril… Continue reading Preparation and photo-induced activities of water-soluble amyloid β-C60 complexes
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Therapeutic biologics (i.e., proteins) have been widely recognized for the treatment, prevention, and cure of a variety of human diseases… Continue reading Recombinant Spider Silk Hydrogels for Sustained Release of Biologicals
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Silica-gelatin hybrid aerogels, introduced recently as drug delivery devices, were investigated for biocompatibility with SCC tumor cells by a time-lapse video-microscopy technique. The… Continue reading Biocompatible silica-gelatin hybrid aerogels covalently labeled with fluorescein
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
The solvatochromic fluorescence behavior of cinnamoyl pyrone derivatives has been studied in several polar and non-polar solvents. The fluorescence spectra of these compounds exhibit red… Continue reading Solvatochromic fluorescence characteristics of cinnamoyl pyrone derivatives
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
α-synuclein plays a key role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD); its deposits are found as amyloid fibrils in… Continue reading Oleuropein aglycone stabilizes the monomeric α-synuclein and favours the growth of non-toxic aggregates
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
The alkyne arms containing zinc(II) N2O2 ligation complexes (1) and (2) were prepared from 2,2′‐{cyclohexane‐1,2‐diylbis[nitrilo(E)methylylidene]}bis[5‐(prop‐2‐yn‐1‐yloxy)phenol] (L1) and 2,2′‐{1,2‐phenylenebis[nitrilo(E)methylylidene]}bis[5‐(prop‐2‐yn‐1‐yloxy)phenol] (L2) and characterized… Continue reading Zinc(II)‐N2O2 ligation complex‐based DNA/protein binder and cleaver having enhanced cytotoxic and phosphatase activity
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
4-Bromo substituted [2.2]paracyclophane-1,9-diene was synthesized from the corresponding dithia[3.3]paracyclophane in three steps through benzyne Steven rearrangement, oxidation, and a thermal… Continue reading Synthesis, aggregation induced emission and through space conjugation of triphenylvinylphenyl substituted [2.2]paracyclophane-1,9-diene
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Although carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are of great interest because of cost effectiveness and environmental compatibility with the facile tunability… Continue reading Bottom‐Up Synthesis of Carbon Quantum Dots With High Performance Photo‐ and Electroluminescence
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Due to their unique electronic and photophysical properties, rhenium(I) fac-tricarbonyl complexes of general formula [Re(N^N)(CO)3X]n+ have been arousing constant interest in many… Continue reading Rhenium tricarbonyl complexes with arenethiolate axial ligands
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018