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Master Thesis Colloidal Plexcitonic Nanocrystals(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2022) Yalçın, Şerife; Yalçın, Şerife Hanım; 04.01. Department of Chemistry; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of TechnologyNoble metal nanocrystals, especially gold and silver, which have attracted a great deal of attention due to the supporting of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), have been extensively investigated and studied. With recent developments in colloid chemistry, synthesis of noble metal nanocrystals with tunable optical properties in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum has become easier. Until now, noble metal nanocrystals (NPs) synthesized by using various synthetic methods, have a variety of shapes, such as bipyramid, rod, disk, prism, and ring, etc. In the strong coupling regime, SPPs supported by metal nanocrystals interact strongly with excitons of organic dyes, semiconducting quantum dots (carbon or perovskite quantum dots) to generate a new hybrid optical mode called plexciton (plasmon-exciton). Plexcitonic nanocrystals have received interest owing to their ease of synthesis, scalability, and ability to provide sub-wavelength confinement of incident light and offer promising applications. Plasmon–exciton interaction at nanoscale dimension can be improved by generating new plexcitonic nanoparticles with tunable optical properties, which may be utilized in critical applications such as nanolasers, sensors, nano-optics, solar cells, and light emitting diodes. Therefore, there has been a tremendous amount of interest in the synthesis of new plexcitonic nanocrystals having excellent optical and chemical properties. The main goal of this thesis is to synthesize new plexcitonic nanoparticles with tunable optical properties in the visible spectrum: (i) synthesis of different shaped colloidal monometallic and bimetallic nanocrystals, (ii) synthesis of new colloidal plexcitonic nanocrystals, (iii) synthesis of carbon quantum dots (CDs), (iv) coupling of excitons of CDs and SPPs on the silver thin film.Master Thesis Production and Characterization of Water Soluble Cdsete Based Core/Shell Nanocrystals and Their Applications in Bioimaging(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2009) Özdemir, Seda; Özçelik, Serdar; Özçelik, Serdar; 04.01. Department of Chemistry; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of TechnologyIn recent years, nanotechnology has become one of the most intensively studied fields. At the nanometer scale, materials have unique electrical, optical, magnetic and chemical properties. They can be used for a wide variety of applications such as electrooptical devices, tagging and medical applications. The goal of this study was to produce water-dispersible alloyed CdSexTe1-x semiconductor nanocrystals, which are suitable to interact with biomolecules. CdSexTe1-x nanocrystals were synthesized by a single step aqueous synthesis method. Monodisperse, CdSexTe1-x nanocrystals with zinc blende structure were obtained in water. Synthesized nanocrystals emit in the range from 528 nm to 620 nm. CdSexTe1-x nanocrystals have 17% photoluminescence quantum yield, after the CdS shell coating the photoluminescence quantum yield increased up to 22%. MTT test and Trypan Blue tests were used to evaluate the toxicity of CdSexTe1-x nanocrystals. MTT measurements reveal that the MCF7 cancer cells are not affected by the nanocrystals at any dosage and exposure condition, but lethal effects are determined at the concentration of 1.0ug/ml for the PC3 cells. The BEAS 2B cells are very sensitive to the nanocrystals and do not proliferate at concentration of 0.5ug/ml. Confocal microscopy studies show that the nanocrystals has ability to penetrate to the cytoplasm of cells.
