Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü: Recent submissions

  • Modification of polypropylene by free radical grafting 
    Kaya, Gülizar. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2021., 2021.)
    Polypropylene (PP) market forms the second largest polymer business worldwide owing to its good mechanical properties, excellent chemical resistance and low-cost production. These attractive properties of PP are mainly ...
  • Fabrication and funtionalization of rGO containing polymeric materials 
    Aslan, Merve. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2021., 2021.)
    In recent years, rGO-containing polymeric materials have been utilized in various biomedical applications such as targeted drug delivery, protein release and photothermal therapy due to the characteristic properties of rGO ...
  • Aldol reactions of conformationally stable o-CF3 phenyl bearing axially chiral thiohydantoins 
    Bacak Erdik, Melis. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2021., 2021.)
    Novel axially chiral thiohydantoin derivatives bearing an o-CF3 phenyl ring have been synthesized atroposelectively from the reaction of R and S alanine, phenyl alanine and valine methyl ester HCl salts with ortho-triflu ...
  • Formation of keteniminium salts:|mechanistic aspects and effect of substituents 
    Aktaş, Zeynep. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2021., 2021.)
    Most organic reactions occur in several consecutive steps that include the generation of highly reactive intermediates, which are short-lived. Keteniminium salts (KI) are key and versatile intermediates in synthetic organic ...
  • Investigating the photophysical properties of benzophenone based TADF emitters :|a computational approach 
    Baş, Ekin Esme. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2021., 2021.)
    In this study, several TADF and non-TADF emitters containing benzophenone or its derivatives as the electron acceptor units have been investigated by implementing computational methods. M06-2X/6-31+G(d,p) method has been ...
  • Modeling the structure-reactivity relationship of acrylates 
    Değirmenci, İsa. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2005., 2005.)
    Photoinitiated polymerization of acrylates is one of the most common processes for therapid production of polymeric cross-linked materials with defined properties. Acrylicmonomers have different reactivity behavior during ...
  • A computational analysis of solvent effect :|thiol-ene reactions and CaO bond strength within hydrated calcium clusters 
    Munar, İpek. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2020., 2020.)
    In the first part this thesis, the solvent effect on thiol-ene reaction kinetics is elucidated. The effect of polar media on the reaction kinetics is taken into account by using the transition state theory, the reactivities ...
  • Novel hydrogels for wound care applications 
    Baş, Yağmur. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2020., 2020.)
    Hydrogels are cross-linked, three-dimensional hydrophilic polymeric networks. They possess similarity in structure to the soft tissue in the body, thus have found a great number of applications as biomaterials. For wound ...
  • Effect of side chain length and stiffness on the adsorption of methacrylate based polymers 
    Kırgın, Emre. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2020., 2020.)
    Polymer thin films provide a multifunctional platform to alter the physical, chemical, and biological properties of a wide variety of substrates. To remove residual stresses and solvents, they are annealed above their glass ...
  • Fabrication of degradable polymer coated nanoparticles 
    Ejderyan, Nora. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2020., 2020.)
    In recent years, interest in polymer drug conjugate delivery systems has increased. When these polymer drug conjugate systems are conjugated with magnetic nanoparticles, they can be used as delivery systems by creating ...
  • Smart polymeric nanocomposites tailored for targeted delivery, protein separation and biofilm disruption 
    Öz, Yavuz. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2020., 2020.)
    Fabrication and biomedical applications of polymeric nanomaterials are described. In the first study, transdermal delivery of insulin via rGO con ned hydrogels is reported. rGO impregnated PEG-based hydrogels were fabricated ...
  • Syntheses of polyesters and poly (ester-anhydrides) industrial applications 
    Erten, Ayşe Zeyneb. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2020., 2020.)
    Polyesters are one of the most important and widely used polymers in industry. Especially for powder coating application, the final properties of coating composition mainly depend on the polyester employed. These linear ...
  • Antibody-drug-conjugates as targeted chemotherapy agents for breast cancer 
    Gür, Salli. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    Antibodies are large molecular weight proteins produced by the immune system. They have high affinity to receptors on different cells’ surfaces. Using this affinity, a number of studies have been conducted to deliver ...
  • Investigation of antibody-dye conjugates 
    Özer, Enfal. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    Polymeric architectures are widely used in polymer therapeutics for both imaging and drug delivery applications. Design of these polymer drug conjugates consists of three parts: water soluble monomer, linker and the drug ...
  • Functionalized PISA particles for targeted delivery and imaging 
    Övül, Başak. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    Polymer based nanoparticles are widely used in various biomedical applications due to their easily tunable size and morphology. Furthermore, characteristic properties such as solubility or biocompatibility can also be ...
  • Micellar drug delivery platform from diblock copolymers 
    Kavak, Nehir. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    The main role of chemotherapeutic agents is killing the fast growing cells. Thus, they damage fast growing helathy cells like bone marrow as well. This harm can be prevented by modifying the existing chemotherapeutic agents ...
  • Degradable hydrogels for local drug delivery 
    Golba, Bianka. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    Hydrogels are widely utilized in biomedical applications owing to their controllable physical and chemical properties. Their physical strength, elasticity, porosity, water uptake capacity, degradability and biocompatibility ...
  • Red thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters in organic light emitting diodes :|a computational approach 
    Dal Kaynak, Cansu. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    This study is a computational analysis of thermally activated delayed fluores cence (TADF) properties for ten molecules emitting red color, together with three molecules having only fluorescent emission. Four different ...
  • Modeling the catalytic effect of transition metal complexes in water oxidation and hetero-diels-alder reactions 
    Avcı, Öyküm Naz. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    This dissertation is composed of two parts, the catalytic effect of transition metals on chemical reactions in the fields of inorganic and organic chemistry has been handled by utilizing Density Functional Theory. In the ...
  • Synthesis and photopolymerization of novel ALKYL-a- hydroxymethyl acrylate based dental crosslinking monomers 
    Yağcı, Mustafa Barış. (Thesis (M.S)-Bogazici University.Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2005., 2005.)
    The most commonly used dental restorative filling composites are composed ofBisphenol A glycolate dimethacrylate (Bis-GMA) monomer, an inorganic filler, and apolymerization initiator system. A comonomer such as triethyleneglycol ...