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Carbon Quantum Dots Enhanced Graphene/Carbon Nanotubes Polyurethane Hybrid Nanocomposites

Dr. Caner Ünlü’s lab group has recently contributed to a paper about carbon quantum dot enriched carbon nanotube/graphene/polyurethane hybrid nanocomposited with title “Carbon quantum dots enhanced graphene/carbon nanotubes polyurethane hybrid nanocomposites” in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Levent Trabzon (Department of Mechanical Engineering ITU) and Assist. Prof. Dr. Amir Navidfar (Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Bahcesehir University).

In vitro photodynamic activities of pegylated phthalocyanines against cancer cell lines

Peripherally and non-peripherally tetra-substituted metal-free and zinc(II) phthalocyanines were successfully prepared by cyclotetramerization of the phthalonitrile derivative bearing tetraethylene glycol methyl ether group at 3- and 4- positions.

International successes from Dr. Azra Kocaarslan Ahmetali and Dr. Cansu Aydoğan

Dr. Azra Kocaarslan Ahmetali has been awarded the Young Investor Group Preparation Program. Dr. Cansu Aydoğan has been invited to Warwick University.

Yağcı Group successfully developed a metal-free photo induced synthesis method that has been published on Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Prof. Yagci research group successfully developed a photoinduced metal free synthesis method to synthesize conducting polymers that consist of only one component; phenacyl bromide. Prof. Steffen Jockusch from Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, investigated the characteristics of the generated radicals, Dr. Azra Kocaarslan and Dr. Kerem Kaya investigated the kinetics of the developed method.

Yağcı Group published a review on Photocontrolled Living Polymerizations on Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Prof. Yagci published a review article in “Angewandte Chemie International Edition” about photoinduced controlled polymerizations in collaboration with well-known scientist David Haddleton. “Angewandte Chemie International Edition” is one of the most respected journals in the field of chemistry that publishes only the most recent groundbreaking developments. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Görkem Yılmaz and Dr. Cansu Aydoğan from the Yağcı Research group were co-authors of the paper.

Yusuf Yağcı was invited to Belgium to join the referee committee of the European Research Council (ERC).

Yusuf Yağcı was invited to Belgium as a panelist of ERC to decide the receivers of the “Consolidator Grant” project.

Rapid sublingual delivery of piroxicam from electrospun cyclodextrin inclusion complex nanofibers

Piroxicam (Px) is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used for the treatment of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Publications From Dr. Fuat Topuz, Winner of The Young Scientists Award

Fuat Topuz was awarded the Young Scientists Award in the field of chemistry by the Science Academy in 2022. We present to you his latest publications.

Layer-by-Layer self-assembled emerging systems for nanosized drug delivery

The article entitled “Layer-by-Layer self-assembled emerging systems for nanosized drug delivery” by our faculty members from Chemistry Department, Dr. Res. Ass. Nejla Cini (Corresponding author and article proposer) and Asst. Prof. Dr. Ferah Calisir, has been accepted to be published in Nanomedicine journal. With an impact factor of 6.096, the journal is one of the most precious journals in the field of medicine (miscellaneous) and welcomes unsolicited article proposals.

Our Faculty Member Dr. Res. Ass. Nejla Cini has been invited as an “invited speaker” by MEDCHEMMEET 2023

Dr. Res. Ass. Nejla Cini has been invited as an “invited speaker” by MEDCHEMMEET 2023 (the 2nd International Meet on Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery & Drug Delivery) which will be held in France in June 2023.

Anticancer and Biological Properties of New Axially Disubstituted Silicon Phthalocyanines

This study has been investigated by Prof. Dr. Zehra Bayır’s lab group. The present work has been supported financially by the Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK; 220Z023) and published in the Dalton Transactions.

New phthalonitrile/metal phthalocyanines-gold nanoparticle conjugates for biological applications

This study has been carried out in the research lab of Prof. Dr. Zehra Bayır and published in the Dalton Transactions in 2022. Bayır et. al synthesized novel 2-(4-ethynyl-N,N-dimethylaniline)-substituted metallophthalocyanines and modified the surface of gold nanoparticles in this study.

''Ottoman Origins of Modern Iraq” by Dr. Ebubekir Ceylan translated into Turkish!

The Turkish translation of one of our faculty members, Ebubekir Ceylan's book, The Ottoman Origins of Modern Iraq has been translated by Kenan Kocak and has been published by Vakıfbank Publications.

Arrogant and Bold: Turkey's Nineties” a new book by Dr. Doğan Gürpınar

A new book by one of our faculty members Doğan Gürpınar, which discusses the cultural, intellectual, and political history of Turkey’s ’90s was published under the name ‘Küstah ve Cüretkar: Türkiye'nin Doksanlı Yılları’. The author notes that the book for the first time directs nostalgia not toward the old times of purity and innocence but toward the boisterous, colorful, and at times hedonistic times. From mafias to popular culture, it attempts to combine the volatile and disjointed parts of “Old Turkey”.

Article on the forty-year Turkish publication history of Şalom newspaper!

An article by one of our faculty members, Dr. Umut Uzer, on the forty-year Turkish publication history of Şalom newspaper was published in the highly regarded journal ‘Journalism’.

The Second First Ever Humor Magazine of The Ottoman Empire is Translated into the Latin Alphabet for the First Time by Dr. Stefo Benlisoy, one of our Faculty Members together with Alp Eren Topal and Seval Şahin.

Çıngıraklı Tatar is the second humor magazine published by Teodar Kasap after the closure of the first humor magazine, Diyojen. The Ottoman Turkish version of the magazine continued publishing between April 5, 1873, and July 18, 1873, with 29 issues in total while the Greek version was published between June 5, 1873, and July 19, 1873, also with 29 issues. Now, after 150 years, the magazine is back on the shelves thanks to translations from Dr. Stefo Benlisoy, Alp Eren Topal, and Seval Sahin.

The First Annual Humanities and Social Sciences Colloquium

The Department of Sociology is organizing a series of “Humanities and Social Sciences Colloquiums” starting from the 2022-2023 fall term. The first of the colloquiums was held in the Department of Sciences and Letters and featured academics from Princeton University, the École pratique des Hautes études (EPHE), Izmir Bakırçay University, and Istanbul Technical University, in a wide variety of topics including architecture and material politics in the Ottoman Empire, gender equity and fairness in digital food markets, apocalypse from a tardo-antique tradition perspective and medieval automata interpretations.

Female Scientist Award to Our Faculty Member in the Field of Immunology

Prof. Dr. Ayça Sayı Yazgan, a faculty member of ITU Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, received the "Işıl Berat Barlan Woman Scientist" award given by the Turkish Society of Immunology under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Talal Chatila from Harvard Medical School.

A New Vertebrate Model to Study a Hereditary Disease

A collaborative study “Modeling gain-of-function and loss-of-function components of SPAST-based hereditary spastic paraplegia using transgenic mice” contributed by Prof. Dr. Arzu Karabay and R.A. Şeyma Akarsu from ITU Molecular Biology and Genetics Department (MBG) was published in the journal “Human Molecular Genetics”.

Genome-scale modeling of stress-resistant yeast cells to understand the mechanisms of adaptive laboratory evolution

The collaborative study “Understanding the adaptive laboratory evolution of multiple stress-resistant yeast strains by genome-scale modeling” conducted by ITU faculty member Prof. Dr. Zeynep Petek Çakar from Molecular Biology and Genetics (MBG) Department was published in the journal “Yeast”.

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