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Dissertation
Role of neurotransmitter GABA in the brain of the Madeira cockroach Rhyparobia maderae with focus on the circadian system
(2019-02)
All living things are subject to biological rhythms. Circadian rhythms are generated by internal clocks which influence many biochemical and physiological processes, as well as various behaviors of an organism. These oscillators are synchronized by external "Zeitgeber" signals such as light-dark changes, temperature changes, as well as social contacts. Different studies identified the accessory medulla (AME), small neuropil at the ventromedian edge of the medulla, as the circadian pacemaker center of the cockroach ...
Dissertation
Energy transfer in free-standing van der Waals heterostructures after optical excitation
(2019)
The wide range of layered van der Waals materials is interesting due to its plenty of deviating characteristics. The structure of all these materials is built from covalently joined layers, which are stacked by van der Waals forces. Aside from this structural similarity the specific characteristics spread out in a variety of electronic and optical properties. The electronic properties of layered materials vary from pure insulators to metallic conductors and can even depend on the number of layers. In the work presented ...
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Ab-initio analysis of the structural response of solids after femtosecond-laser-pulse excitation
(2019)
After an intense femtosecond-laser excitation extreme non-equilibrium conditions are induced in materials. The high photon density in such an ultrashort-laser pulse interacts directly with the electronic system of the material. By absorbing the photon energy the electrons are excited in high energy states, where they form a non-equilibrium distribution shortly after the excitation. Due to fast electron-electron scattering and cascading processes equilibrates the electronic system within several femtoseconds to a ...
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Exploiting non-Markovianity for quantum control
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015)
Quantum technology, exploiting entanglement and the wave nature of matter, relies on the ability to accurately control quantum systems. Quantum control is often compromised by the interaction of the system with its environment since this causes loss of amplitude and phase. However, when the dynamics of the open quantum system is non-Markovian, amplitude and phase flow not only from the system into the environment but also back. Interaction with the environment is then not necessarily detrimental. We show that the ...
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Vesicle motion during sustained exocytosis in chromaffin cells
(PLoS, 2015)
Chromaffin cells release catecholamines by exocytosis, a process that includes vesicle docking, priming and fusion. Although all these steps have been intensively studied, some aspects of their mechanisms, particularly those regarding vesicle transport to the active sites situated at the membrane, are still unclear. In this work, we show that it is possible to extract information on vesicle motion in Chromaffin cells from the combination of Langevin simulations and amperometric measurements. We developed a numerical ...
Dissertation
Synthese und Charakterisierung neuer symmetrischer und unsymmetrischer Spiro-p-oligophenyle
(2010-08-30)
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden neue symmetrische Spiro-p-oligophenyle der allgemeinen Form Spiro-o-Φ[n,n] mit der Gesamtkettenlänge o=2n+2 Phenylringen (o > 10) und der Zahl n der Phenylringe in den p-Oligophenylsubstituenten am Spirobifluorenkern, dargestellt. Neben den symmetrischen Verbindungen wurden erstmals auch unsymmetrische Spiro-p-oligophenyle der allgemeinen Form Spiro-o-Φ[n,m] mit o=n+m+2 (o = 3-7) und n ≠ m synthetisiert. Aufgrund der sehr geringen Löslichkeit der größeren Verbindungen wurden ...
Dissertation
Die Carbonylierung acyclischer Diaminocarbene
(2014-08-06)
Das Dissertationsprojekt befasst sich mit dem synthetischen Potential acyclischer Diaminocarbene (aDACs; Verbindungen des Typs (R2N)2C:) und prüft dabei insbesondere deren Reaktivität gegenüber Kohlenmonoxid (CO). Grundlage des Vorhabens ist eine Aufsehen erregende Beobachtung von SIEMELING et al. (Chem. Sci., 2010, 1, 697): Der Prototyp der aDACs, das Bis(diisopropylamino)carben, ist in der Lage CO zu aktivieren. Dabei wird zunächst ein intermediäres Keten des Typs (R2N)2C=C=O generiert, das in Folge einer ...
Dissertation
Die elektronischen Eigenschaften acyclischer Diaminocarbene und ihre Reaktivität gegenüber Kohlenstoffmonoxid
(2018-07-30)
Die Dissertation befasst sich mit der Reaktivität von acyclischen Diaminocarbenen (ADCs; Verbindungen des Typs (R2N)2C:) und deren synthetischem Potential im Sinne einer Carbonylierung mit Kohlenstoffmonoxid (CO). Die Grundlagen zu diesem Vorhaben liegen in den Arbeiten von SIEMELING et. al. (Chem. Sci., 2010, 1, 697) und SCHULZ (Dissertation, Universität Kassel, 2014) und deren Beobachtung, dass ADCs in der Lage sind CO zu aktivieren. Im Einklang mit quantenchemischen Rechnungen durch SIEMELING und FRENKING (J. Am. ...