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Cucurbituril-based supramolecular constructs for the diverse applications of nanomedicine
(Bilkent University, 2020-09)The supramolecular chemistry of cucurbiturils (CBs) has been rapidly advancing to span wide range of nanomedicine applications including but not limited to pharmaceutical drug formulation and delivery, bio/medical imaging ... -
Application of conjugated cucurbit[8]uril porphyrin supramolecular assembly in electrochemical hydrogen generation
(Bilkent University, 2020-09)The ever-increasing demands for energy have encouraged an enormous consumption of fossil fuels worldwide. This has presented major concerns due to their limited resources and serious environmental issues. Therefore, the ... -
Oil droplet manipulation on superomniphobic textured surfaces
(Bilkent University, 2020-08)Microfluidic systems are mostly composed of closed microchannels in which flow is generated by syringe or pressure pumps. The flow in these channels can be droplet-based however access to each droplet individually in ... -
Optical microfluidic waveguides and solution lasers of colloidal semiconductor quantum wells
(Bilkent University, 2020-08)Microfluidics has become an important technology platform offering many applications including point-of-care systems, lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices, and drug delivery and separation. For this technology to reach its full ... -
Ultrafast laser-material processing in the ablation-cooled regime
(Bilkent University, 2020-07)Recently, a new regime of material ablation using ultrashort laser pulses has been demonstrated. In this regime, thousands of pulses collectively interact and ablate the material, if the time between subsequent pulses is ... -
Encapsulation of food additives and drugs by cyclodextrin functionalized electrospun nanofibers
(Bilkent University, 2020-07)Electrospun nanofibers attract attention of many areas including food and pharmaceutical industries thanks to their unique physical/mechanical properties like large surface area-to-volume ratio, nanoporous structure, ... -
Synthetic genetic circuits to monitor nanomaterial triggered toxicity
(Bilkent University, 2020-08)In the past decades, nanomaterial (NM) usage in various fields has been of great interest because of their unique properties that show tuneable optical and physical properties depending on their size. Yet, safety ... -
Development of viscoelastic particle migration for microfluidic flow cytometry applications
(Bilkent University, 2020-05)Advances in cell biology, quantification, and identification procedures are essential to develop novel particle characterization tools on the diagnostics, biotechnology, pharmaceutical industry, and material science. ... -
Microfluidic platforms for hemorheology and coagulation time analysis
(Bilkent University, 2020-01)Blood is a non-Newtonian fluid consisting of plasma and cells that uninterruptedly circulate the body. Erythrocytes are deformable anucleated discoid blood cells with a viscoelastic membrane, constituting around half of ... -
Peptide drug candidates for pathogenic amyloids
(Bilkent University, 2020-01)Amyloid fibrils are very stable, ordered cross-β structured, resistant to protease degradation, proteinaceous composits. All amyloids have different peptide/protein sequences although they express similar structural ... -
Glycosylation: a tool for engineering protein based materials
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)Biofilms are bacterial communities formed by adhesion of cells to each other via extracellular matrix. Proteins, one of the components of biofilm matrix, can form fibers and have properties enabling their use as materials. ... -
Peptide based ligand discovery to prevent protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease conditions
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease are cognitively and physically debilitating and progressive diseases due to the gradual and irreversible loss of discrete ... -
Experiments on strongly correlated materials: magneto-transport properties of VO2 AND V2O3
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)Vanadium oxides provide unusual electrical and magnetic phenomena emerging from strong electronic correlations, which include, among other things, a thermally induced metal-insulator transition (MIT). Investigation of ... -
Real-time impedimetric microfluidic droplet measurement: IDM
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Droplet-based micro uidic systems require a precise control on droplet physical properties, hence measuring the morphological properties of droplets is critical to obtain high sensitivity analysis. The ability to perform ... -
Biomineralization with engineered cellular systems
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Hydroxyapatite (HAP) is the final product of bone biomineralization process and HAP formation is controlled by proteins, enzymes and small molecules secreted to extracellular matrix (ECM). Among these molecules, alkaline ... -
A theranostic bio-device for biomedical applications
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Biological systems are programmable by their nature. With using the abilities of these systems, scientists have designed, engineered and repurposed living machines for various tasks including biological sensing, recording ... -
One-pot synthesis of hybrid core-shell nanoparticles for antibacterial photodynamic therapy
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Multidrug resistance (MDR) in Escherichia coli (E. coli) has become a worrying issue that is not only increasingly observed in humans but also is widespread in veterinary medicine worldwide. Therefore, developing new and ... -
Semiconductor nanoplatelet heterostructures enhanced via combinations of colloidal atomic layer deposition and hot injection shell growths
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)One of the most promising families of semiconductor nanocrystals in colloidal optoelectronics and nanophotonics is considered to be colloidal quantum wells, also commonly referred to as nanoplatelets (NPLs). Possessing ... -
Dynamic adaptive colloidal crystals far from equilibrium
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Self-assembly has been the center of attention of many researchers from all branches of science. Self-assembly of static structures such as crystals often forms through energy minimization, while dynamic ones need constant ... -
Molecular analysis of enginereed nanomaterials in biomedical and regenerative medicine applications
(Bilkent University, 2019-05)Molecular mechanisms are inspiration source for effective nanomaterial synthesis through minimalist bottom-up approaches. Mimicking functional biophysicochemical properties of biomacromolecules can give new insights for ...
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