Chirality

Raman optical activity (ROA) is a powerful probe of the structure and behaviour of biomolecules in aqueous solution for a number of important problems in molecular biology. Although ROA is a very sensitive technique for studying biological samples, it is a very weak effect and t…

The adsorption of biologically active molecules, such as the DNA bases, amino acids, on solid surfaces has been the subject of a number of experimental and theoretical studies in the past years. The understanding of the self-assembly mechanism of bioactive molecules on surfaces …

In this dissertation, I examine how notions of authorized and unauthorized English, or Standard and non-Standard English, were at the heart of literary aesthetics in Romantic Britain and Independence Era Africa and how they influenced the editing and reception of John Clare, a 1…