Publications by authors named "Emily Grace Ripka"

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  • - The COVID Moonshot was a collaborative, open-science effort focused on finding a new drug to inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, which is crucial for the virus's survival.
  • - Researchers developed a novel noncovalent, nonpeptidic inhibitor that stands out from existing drugs targeting the same protease, employing advanced techniques like machine learning and high-throughput structural biology.
  • - Over 18,000 compound designs, 490 ligand-bound x-ray structures, and extensive assay data were generated and shared openly, creating a comprehensive and accessible knowledge base for future drug discovery efforts against coronaviruses.
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This report describes a characterization study of the surfaces of CsPbBr and CsPbBrI perovskite nanoparticles (NPs) obtained via a simultaneous purification and halide exchange (HE) postsynthetic processing technique. We studied composition-dependent NP-ligand interactions via diffusion ordered NMR (DOSY) and quantified resulting photoluminescence quantum yield (QY) as a function of halide exchange as well as ligand exchange. Importantly, ligand binding strength and QY were found to decrease when successive purification and/or halide/ligand exchange steps were taken without careful concurrent additions of acid and base ligands.

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