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MNT-CURN Mentor Presentations 2022-2023
16 Feb 2023 | Series
Grouped in this series are the Fall 2022 MNT-CURN mentor office hour presentations. They cover information on the MNT-CURN opportunity overview, transferring from a community college to a four-year school, asking for letters of recommendation, and seeking out research opportunities.
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NSAC-OSA-SPIE Birck Research Conference
13 Aug 2019 | Workshops
This conference celebrates and highlights the work of several Professors who work primarily in the Birck Nanotechnology Center. The talks were designed in particular to highlight the sheer depth and breadth of research occuring within the walls of the Birck Nanotechnology Center.
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[Illinois] SMART (Shrink Manufacturing Advanced Research Tools)
09 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations
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[Illinois] Beckman Institute Seminar Series
15 Jun 2013 | Series
The Beckman Institute Graduate Student Seminar Series presents the work of outstanding graduate students working in Beckman research groups. The seminars begin at Noon in Beckman Institute Room 1005 and are open to the public.The Director's Seminar Lecture Series was designed to encourage...
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[Illinois] PHYS466 2013 Lecture 16: Importance Sampling
12 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations
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Magnesium Phyllo (Organo) Silicate: A Clay to Play with in Materials Science
24 Apr 2012 | Online Presentations
The synthesis and applications of amino functionalized clay will be discussed in this talk. The tailor made clay containing amino pendants is easily dispersible in water. This property has been effectively utilized to make water soluble clay-metal nanoparticles composites, clay-protein and...
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Appreciating Nature's Antibiotics as Chemical Treasures
12 Jul 2011 | Online Presentations
This lecture is part of the 28th Annual H.C. Brown Lectures in Organic Chemistry.
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Self-assembled Coordination Architectures: Lessons from Nature
12 Jul 2011 | Online Presentations
This lecture is part of the 28th Annual H.C. Brown Lectures in Organic Chemistry.
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Optical and Spectral Imaging for Nanoscale Research
25 Apr 2011 | Online Presentations
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The Elusive Spin Transistor
11 Apr 2011 | Online Presentations
This presentation is a short introductory tutorial on spin-transistors.
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Control of Spin Precession in a Datta-Das Transistor Structure
11 Apr 2011 | Online Presentations
Transistors Switch onto Spin Using the spin of an electron in addition to, or instead of, the charge properties is believed to have many benefits in terms of speed, power-cost, and integration density over conventional electronic circuits. At the heart of the field of spintronics has been a...
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Emerging Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications in Exascale Computing
10 Mar 2011 | Online Presentations
The move towards exascale computing platforms (capable of 10^18 floating point operations) poses tremendous challenges, while presenting opportunities for foundational advances in a variety of application domains. In this talk, I will describe various technical issues that must be overcome to...
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Levitated Spinning Graphene
18 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations
I will describe a method for levitating micron-sized few layer graphene flakes in a quadrupole ion trap. Starting from a liquid suspension containing graphene, charged flakes are injected into the trap using the electrospray ionization technique and are probed optically.
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Translational Research in Nano and Bio Mechanics
18 Nov 2010 | Online Presentations
One of the most challenging problems is the integration and interface between wet (biological) and dry (structural) materials. Nano and bio science and engineering is one of the frontiers in transformative and translational research. The transcendent technologies include nanotechnology,...
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Chemically Enhanced Carbon-Based Nanomaterials and Devices
09 Nov 2010 | Online Presentations
Carbon-based nanomaterials have attracted significant attention due to their potential to enable and/or improve applications such as transistors, transparent conductors, solar cells, batteries, and biosensors. This talk will delineate chemical strategies for enhancing the electronic and optical...
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Limits of Thermal Processes and their Implications on Efficient Energy Utilization
27 Oct 2010 | Online Presentations
About 90 percent of the world’s energy use involves thermal processes – thermal engines to generate mechanical power; heating and cooling in buildings; heating involved in manufacturing of steel, cement, glass, petrochemicals etc. To identify opportunities for improving current...
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Fun in the Sand: Some Experiments in Granular Physics
25 Oct 2010 | Online Presentations
In the last two decades, condensed matter physicists have begun an intense study of the dynamic and static properties of granular media (materials made from individual acroscopic solid grains). These materials offer a vast arena of new physical phenomena which are highly accessible and largely...
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Electric and Magnetic Properties of Multiferroic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures
20 Oct 2010 | Online Presentations
Outline:IntroductionPreparation methods for oxide thin filmsOxide thin films and heterostructures Multiferroic materialsBiFeO3, YMnO3, BiMnO3 thin films and FE/FM CompositesConclusions
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TiCN/TiNbCN Multilayer System with Enhanced Tribological Properties
20 Oct 2010 | Online Presentations
Improvement in the mechanical properties of hard coatings such monolayer (TiN, CrN, AlCN, WC-Co, TiCN) [1], has been achieved using compositional gradient WC/C layer, or multilayered type [transition metal/transition carbide]n, [transition metal/transition nitride]n, [TiCN/ZrCN]n, among others....
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Addressing Molecular Dynamics Time-scale Issues to Study Atomic-scale Friction
12 Oct 2010 | Online Presentations
This presentation will include an introduction to several accelerated molecular dynamics methods. However, particular focus will be given to parallel replica (ParRep) dynamics in which atomistic simulations are run parallel in time to extend their total duration. The ParRep method is based on the...