Projects
NAIL Adsorption and Dynamics of Nucleic Acids on Surfaces in Ionic Liquid Environment. KU Leuven
Nucleic acid storage and stability is of primary importance as it finds uses in material science as nanomachines, biosensors and bioelectronics. The long-term stability and storage of DNA is a major challenge as hydrolytic reactions cause its denaturation when stored in an aqueous environment with conventional buffer solutions. Most of the devices employing nucleic acids require the nucleic acid molecule (generally DNA) to be adsorbed on the ...
Covalent chiral functionalization of graphite for enantioselective applications KU Leuven
An object, or a molecule is said to be chiral if it can be distinguished from its mirror image. Chirality plays an important role in many areas of chemistry, biology, and physics. Many chemical processes involving solid surfaces such as catalysis, crystallization, adsorption, and so forth, are sensitive to chirality. Thus, surfaces are not fertile playground studying chirality, but they can also be used to promote the separation of ...