Browsing Masters Theses by Author "Brosseau, Christa L."

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Development of a fabric-based plasmonic sensor for point-of-care diagnostics

Alhatab, Dalal (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)

Recently, the demand for new diagnostic techniques for detecting disease biomarkers at the patient point-of-care (POC) has increased. This project focuses on our recent progress towards a fabric-based plasmonic sensor which ...
Development of an electrochemical surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy DNA aptamer biosensor for rapid detection of protein biomarkers of disease

Harroun, Scott Gerald (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)

Electrochemical surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (EC-SERS) is a vibrational spectroscopic method involving detection of a target molecule at a metal nanostructured surface to which a potential has been applied. EC-SERS ...
Development of sustainable nano-architectures for plasmonic applications

Clarke, Osai (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)

Plasmonic nanostructures that are uniform in size and shape are highly desirable for many applications, including plasmon-enhanced solar cells and localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) sensing. Unfortunately, such ...
Documenting bloodstain patterns concealed beneath architectural paint layers using multi-spectral forensic photography techniques

Dilkie, Natasha Arielle (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)

The development of forensic photography techniques can aid agencies in the documentation of information regarding crime scene cleanup. This study compared reflective infrared, reflective ultraviolet, and fluorescence ...
Electrochemical surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy used in the characterization of Langmuir Blodgett/Langmuir Schaefer biomimetic membranes

Merchant, Soraya T. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)

In recent years, the classification of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) as a pore-forming disease has been a highly debated topic. It has been postulated that aggregated species, such as amyloid beta (Aβ), derived from a transmembrane ...
An exploration of 2D-LC-SERS : a novel offline detection modality for multidimensional chromatography

Davidson, Melanie Dawn (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)

Multidimensional liquid chromatography (2D-LC) provides better resolving and separation power than conventional high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and over the past decade has increasingly been applied in many ...
Identification of key reaction products from MoO[subscript 3] and ethylene glycol mixtures used for attempted MoS[subscript 2] electrodeposition and synthesis of bidentate ligands and related group 1 and 13 metal complexes

George, Tanner A. (Halifax, N.S. : (Saint Mary's University), 2021)

Replication of a procedure to electrodeposit MoS₂ required use of an uncharacterized crude MoO₃ and ethylene glycol reaction mixture as a molybdenum precursor. Multiple attempts to replicate the desired ...
The pairing of two-dimensional liquid chromatography and electrochemical surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy to provide enhanced separation and detection of complex mixtures

Eisnor, Maddison Margaret (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-25)

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) and green tea are known complex substances requiring advanced separation techniques and ultrasensitive detection methods for characterization and identification. DOM is ubiquitous in water ...
Spectroscopic investigation of the interaction between biomimetic membranes and protein aggregates

Karaballi, Reem Ahmed (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)

Human diseases characterized by the deposition of insoluble extracellular proteins are referred to as amyloidoses. Such amyloidoses include Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington disease, and prion disease. ...