Graduate Program in Materials Science and Nanotechnology - Ph.D. / Sc.D.
Recent Submissions
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Microbial amyloids as functional biomaterials
(Bilkent University, 2021-02)Amyloids are fibrillar aggregations of proteins, dominated by β-sheets in the structure. Although amyloids are historically associated with disorders, they emerged as outstanding biomaterials due to their high mechanical ... -
Design, fabrication and operation of a very high intensity CMUT transmit array for beam steering applications
(Bilkent University, 2020-12)Several studies have reported airborne ultrasound transmission systems focused on achieving beamforming. However, beam steering and beamforming for capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) at high intensity ... -
Functionalization of group V monolayers and their compounds: alloying, doping and surface modification
(Bilkent University, 2020-12)There has been growing interest during the last decade in two-dimensional (2D) materials due to their important roles in various scientific and technological applications such as detectors, lasers and light emitting diodes. ... -
Analysis of monodisperse microfluidic droplet generation and its biochemical applications
(Bilkent University, 2020-12)Droplet fluidic systems have dramatically improved precision in many applications, such as polymerase chain reaction, biochemical analysis, and particle synthesis in which accurate control of sample volume plays a significant ... -
Optoelectronic and thermal properties of metallic transition metal dichalcogenides
(Bilkent University, 2020-12)After the successful isolation of graphene monolayer from its bulky counterpart, there has been tremendous advancement in the field of 2D material. Transition metal dichalcogenides(TMDCs) is family of 2D materials comprising ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Synthesis of silica-based nanomaterials and their applications in fluorescent, biological and chemical sensing
(Bilkent University, 2018-06)This thesis describes development of nanoparticle-based liquid sensors and coatings for droplet-based bioassays. Liquid sensors were produced from mesostructured (2-50 nm) hybrid silica nanoparticles. Detection of trace ... -
Graph theory to study complex networks in the brain
(Bilkent University, 2018-05)The brain is a large-scale, intricate web of neurons, known as the connectome. By representing the brain as a network i.e. a set of nodes connected by edges, one can study its organization by using concepts from graph ... -
A synthetic biology approach for engineered functional biofilm
(Bilkent University, 2018-01)Extracellular polymeric substances consist of molecules, DNAs, carbohydrates, and proteins that are secreted by microbial biofilms. These molecules assist in the synthesis of bacterial biofilms as highly ordered, complex ... -
A synthetic biology approach for nanomaterial design, synthesis and functionalization
(Bilkent University, 2017-11)Biological formation of inorganic material occurs in most organisms in nature. Various biomolecules such as polypeptides, lipids and metabolites are responsible for biomineralization in cells and tissues. Biological synthesis ... -
Optimization of sample preparation methods for the mechanical characterization of tissue architectures
(Bilkent University, 2017-11)There is now mounting evidence that mechanical signals are as crucial as genetic and biochemical feedback mechanisms for directing and organizing complex cellular behaviors, and material characterization tools are routinely ... -
Atomic layer deposition of III-nitrides and metal oxides : their application in area selective ALD
(Bilkent University, 2017-09)III-nitride compound semiconductor materials (GaN, AlN, and InN) and their alloys have generated significant interest in both basic research and commercial applications mainly in the field of photonics, energy storage, ... -
Mesenchymal stem cell mechanics on osteoinductive peptide nanofibers
(Bilkent University, 2017-08)In this thesis, changes in Young's modulus of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) were investigated during their osteogenic differentiation on bioactive peptide nanofibers that bear triple glutamic acid sequence (EEE), a ... -
Design and development of ecm-inspired peptidebased nanostructures for bioengineering and biomedicine
(Bilkent University, 2017-08)Advances in understanding of cell-matrix interactions and the regulation of cellular behaviors through nanobiotechnological tools have presented new perspectives for regenerative medicine. Peptide amphiphiles have been ... -
Development of peptide based materials as a synthetic scaffold to mimic extracellular matrix
(Bilkent University, 2017-07)Biomaterials obtained through self-assembling process of peptide amphiphile (PA) molecules provide great potential to introduce new therapeutic approaches in regenerative medicine through mimicking the natural environments ...
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