YouTube videos are becoming increasingly more integrated into education, especially in core science subjects such as chemistry. Views are typically used as a measure of a video’s quality, as teachers and students use them for instructional support. Richard Mayer developed a set of Multimedia Principles that we have used to rate the characteristics of popular […]
A22-P: Extracting Kinetic Information From Multiple Polymer Distributions
My research is in the field of organic chemistry, specifically polymer science. The goal for this project was to develop a preexisting model to predict kinetic information for other polymer systems. The original model was used to predict kinetic information for RAFT polymer systems, but we wanted to make it more versatile and apply it […]
A14: Crown-ether appended Ortho-phenylenes with bound chiral guests
Many abiotic foldamers are composed of achiral parts but adopt chiral geometries, like helices. In these systems, there is no inherent preference for one handedness of the fold. Ortho-phenylenes are a class of aromatic foldamers that fold into helices driven by arene-arene stacking interactions. Although their folding is now reasonably understood, it is not clear […]
C19: Engineering an Oncolytic Adenovirus to Specifically Target Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer remains a disease with an incredibly high mortality rate since it is virtually undetectable in its early stages and is difficult to treat with current therapies in later stages. The gene high mobility group AT-hook 1 (HMGA1) is upregulated in this type of cancer, which increases the resistance to chemotherapy and increases tumor […]
B30: The H2O2 reduction in Ca2+, NaHCO3 environment and the measurement of CaCO3: solid formed on the surface disk of nano-electrode
The water reduction experiment was done before with Ca2+ and NaHCO3 and found the current would jump up when the potential approached to a negative value around -1V. It may be caused by the H2 bubble formed or CaCO3 solid formed on the surface of nanoelectrode to block the current. Thus, the aim of this […]
B15: Headspace analysis of food and beverages using the tin oxide electrochemical sensor
The tin oxide electrochemical sensor is the active component in the personal breathalyzer used for ethanol detection. The sensor works by ethanol vapor reacting with oxygen species adsorbed to the SnO2 surface, then releasing trapped electrons back into the conduction band which changes the output voltage. However, to the best of our knowledge, the analytical […]
C12: The role of lipids in thylakoid protein insertion
Most photosynthetic proteins are synthesized in the cytoplasm of the plant cell but are used in the thylakoid membrane of the chloroplast. The cpTAT pathway is a transport pathway in the thylakoid that helps move photosynthesis-related proteins to their site of function and requires the work of three membrane proteins, Tha4, Hcf106, and cpTatC. Membranes, […]
C17: Green Tea Polyphenol and Copper Bioavailability
Understanding the three way interactions between serum albumin, copper, and epigallocatechin gallate can provide insight into how biological systems deal with excess copper, as well as the potential benefit of the major polyphenol in green tea, epigallocatechin gallate. The redox chemistry of copper plays a critical role in biological systems, as it is very useful […]
A15: Twist Sense Control of Internally Functionalized ortho-Phenylenes
Of particular interest are ortho-Phenylenes due to their ability to form helices, thus classifying them as foldamers. Molecules that are of this classification are of particular interest due to their potential to mimic biomolecules, thus making them available to use for practical applications. The understanding of ortho-phenylene folding is crucial in order to assemble higher […]
C22: Refining the Structural Topology of S21 Pinholin in a Lipid Bilayer Via Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
Membrane proteins are often used as targets for development of new drugs. Unfortunately, it is often difficult to determine the structures of these membrane proteins in their native environment due to hydrophobic interactions. It is estimated that 25% of all proteins are membrane proteins, yet structures have only been solved for a few hundred. Holins […]
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