Cell surface receptors, which are overexpressed in cancerous tumours, are feasible molecular targets for tumour imaging. The transmembrane G-protein coupled receptor CXCR4 is overexpressed in tumours and has a crucial role ...

Electrochromic materials have attracted the interest of researchers over the last several decades. They are able to change their color upon the application of a voltage. Tungsten oxide (WO3) and titanium oxide (TiO2) are ...

Discotic organic polyaromatic semiconducting materials have been utilized in different organic electronic applications, specifically as light harvesting material for organic photovoltaics (OPV), the development of which, ...

Thin-film solar cells have already reached grid parity with conventional fossil fuel energy sources, and slightly undercut traditional crystalline silicon solar cells, however they still have the potential to lower their ...

This thesis presents an experimental and computational investigation of cobalt and cobalt-dioxolene complexes, focusing on valence tautomeric (VT) behavior, single-molecule magnet (SMM) properties and magnetic exchange ...

Organic photovoltaics (OPV) materials are an established class of light-harvesting, solution-processable organic semiconductors. These materials have attracted substantial interest from the scientific and commercial ...

Air pollution is perceived as the world’s greatest environmental risk to human health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is responsible for the deaths of about 7 million people each year. In ...

The coinage metal hydrides of copper, silver and gold have applications in catalysis and nanoparticle synthesis. Coinage metal hydrides are key intermediates in the chemical transformations of a range of substrates including ...

Glycoside hydrolases (GH) are enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of glycosidic linkages. They are classified into over 150 families based on their primary amino acid sequence. Family GH99 endo-α-1,2-mannosidases/endo-α ...

This thesis features an enatiospecfic synthesis of a key alkyl citrate retron that was leveraged in the total syntheses of squalene synthase inhibitors (-)-CJ-13,982, (-)-CJ-13,981 and (-)-L-731,120 (featured in Org. Let. ...