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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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...