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Study of Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence of Dye-Doped Silica Nanoparticles
(2012)
Enhancement of molecular fluorescence is of great interest due to the widespread popularity of fluorescence-based detection techniques available today. Although fluorescence-based detection is considered to be more sensitive ...
Study of Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence of Dye-Doped Silica Nanoparticles
(2012)
Enhancement of molecular fluorescence is of great interest due to the widespread popularity of fluorescence-based detection techniques available today. Although fluorescence-based detection is considered to be more sensitive ...
Properties of Noble Metal Nanoparticles: Molecular Dynamics and Density Functional Theory Studies
(2010)
Supported metal nanoparticles play an important role in heterogeneous catalysis. In recent years, carbon nanotubes, because of their unique properties, have drawn interest as supports. The structural and dynamic properties ...
Plasmonic Properties and Enhanced Fluorescence of Gold and Dye-Doped Silica Nanoparticle Aggregates
(2013)
The development of metal-enhanced fluorescence has prompted a great interest in augmenting the photophysical properties of fluorescent molecules with noble metal nanostructures. Our research efforts, outlined in this ...
CARBONACEOUS NANOSIZED SURFACTANT CARRIERS AND OIL-INDUCED VISCOELASTIC FLUID FOR POTENTIAL EOR APPLICATIONS
(2018-05-11)
This dissertation aims to advance the conventional tertiary oil recovery method, surfactant flooding process. Via injecting a finite slug of surfactant-only or mixture of surfactant/polymer solution into reservoir, surfactants ...
Synthesis, Purification and Assembly of Gold and Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
(2010)
The aims of the current research include developing new synthetic strategies to prepare structurally complex gold nanoparticles and new size sorting methods to separate nanoparticles of larger size, as well as studying the ...
Multiscale Modeling of Nanoparticles Transport, Aggregation, and In Situ Gelation in Porous Media
(2017)
Nanoparticle applications in the petroleum industry have grown recently especially in EOR and well stimulation. Transport of nanoparticles in porous media involves different interaction mechanisms either between nanoparticles ...