Graduate Program in Materials Science and Nanotechnology - Ph.D. / Sc.D.
Recent Submissions
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Tuning the resonances of high Q-factor whispering gallery mode resonators for optoelectronic applications
(Bilkent University, 2022-07)Optical resonators allow highly efficient light-matter interaction; therefore, they are promising tools for optoelectronics and photonics. Especially optical resonators with high Q-factors such as toroidal resonators can ... -
Color generation and enhancement using large-scale compatible metamaterial design architectures
(Bilkent University, 2022-01)Metamaterials are a type of artificial matt that can impose exotic functionalities beyond natural materials. These specifically designed sub-wavelength structures acquire these functionalities from their collective geometric ... -
Development of high-beam quality high power Ytterbium-doped fiber lasers
(Bilkent University, 2022-01)High power fiber laser (HPFL) systems have drawn considerable interest for the last decades in health, industry, and especially defense applications due to their compactness, robustness, and high directionality. In this ... -
Survival analysis and its applications in identifying genes, signatures, and pathways in human cancers
(Bilkent University, 2021-09)Cancer literature makes use of survival analyses focused on gene expression based on univariable or multivariable regression. However, there is still a need to understand whether a) incorporating exon or isoform information ... -
Design of multifunctional prussian blue analogues for solar driven water oxidation
(Bilkent University, 2021-07)The development of earth-abundant, robust, and low-cost photoanodes for water oxidation is one of the most critical steps in ‘artificial leaf’. A promising approach in this field is to build dye-sensitized photoanodes by ... -
Real time optical observation of the synthesis of novel 2D materials and investigation of their fundamental properties
(Bilkent University, 2021-03)Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (2D TMDC) with superb phys-ical and chemical properties, used as the active material for various devices. The on-going primary focus is their reliable high-throughput synthesis ... -
Microbial amyloids as functional biomaterials
(Bilkent University, 2021-01)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, 2020-11)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, 2020-11)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, 2020-11)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, 2020-06)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, 2020-07)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, 2020-04)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, 2019-04)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, 2018-04)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, 2017-12)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 ...
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