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Alkali Treatment of Solution Processed Kesterite Solar Cells
(2017)Worldwide increasing energy needs and negative effects of fossil and nuclear power demand environmental friendly and cost-effective alternative energy sources like solar power. Silicon based solar cells dominate the photovoltaic (PV) market thanks to their high efficiency and matured technology. However, alternative absorber materials are desired that offer lower production cost and employ cheap and readily available constituents with ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Carrier Dynamics in Nanocrystals and Nanocrystal Solids: Experiment and Simulation
(2017)Films of semiconductor nanocrystals (NC-solids) hold great promise as low-cost, solution-processable semiconductors with electronic and optical properties that can be tuned by varying the size and composition of the constituent nanocrystals (NCs), as well as their surfaceterminating ligands. Further increase in the performance parameters of devices incorporating NC-solids will require a robust understanding of the effects of the ...Doctoral Thesis -
The Role of In-Sewer Transformation on Illicit Target Drug Residues to Estimate Community Drug Abuse through Wastewater Analysis
(2017)The accuracy and high sensitivity of advanced, modern analytical methods make it possible to quantify concentrations of trace organic chemicals in environmental matrices. Wastewater is one such matrix, presenting relevant epidemiological information about a population’s lifestyle habits, health, and wellbeing. The urban sewer system unintentionally collects and aggregates this information in wastewater streams arriving at each treatment ...Doctoral Thesis -
Dynamics of Protein Synthesis and Degradation in FLG22-Stimulated Arabidopsis
(2017)Gene expression is a multi-step process that shapes the most central aspects of a cell including its physiology and metabolism. As such, it is governed by precise regulatory mechanisms so that the protein levels can respond swiftly and precisely to stimuli. The regulatory cascade includes transcription, translation and protein degradation, yet the relative contributions of these regulation levels are not well studied on a systems-wide ...Doctoral Thesis -
First-principles study of PbTe: from exotic superconductivity to emergent ferroelectricity
(2017)Doctoral Thesis -
Modulating Enterocyte Metabolism Affects Whole Body Glucose Homeostasis in Mice
(2017)Obesity and its comorbidities are a growing concern in today’s world. Obesity and overweight increase the risk of developing several life threatening diseases, the risks of which are decreased significantly even with a moderate weight loss. The most common comorbidity of obesity is type-2 diabetes which involves a severe dysfunction in glycemic control. Several studies suggest that gut metabolism plays an important role in whole body ...Doctoral Thesis -
Interactive Cognitive-Motor Training in older Adults – The Extra Boost for Cognitive Performance and Brain Function?
(2017)Emerging evidence indicates that age-related decline in higher order cognitive processing, e.g. attention and executive functioning, is associated with impaired gait and is important in relation to falls in older adults (Yogev-Seligmann et al., 2008; de Bruin and Schmidt, 2010; Mirelman et al., 2012). There are strong indications that the most important risk factors for cognitive decline, dementia, impaired gait, and falls in older adults ...Doctoral Thesis -
Numerics and boundary conditions for 13 moment equations with help from entropy
(2017)Doctoral Thesis