Charge Transfer Across an Energy Transducing Integral Membrane Protein Complex

31 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): William A. Cramer

The cytochrome bc complexes of the mitochondrial respiratory and photosynthetic electron transport chains are hetero-oligomeric integral membrane proteins. These proteins are responsible for most of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2679

Introduction to X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and to XPS Applications

17 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dmitry Zemlyanov

X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), which is known as Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA), is a powerful research tool for the study of the surface of solids. The technique …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2668

Ionic Selectivity in Channels: complex biology created by the balance of simple physics

05 Jun 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Bob Eisenberg

An important class of biological molecules—proteins called ionic channels—conduct ions (like Na+ , K+ , Ca2+ , and Cl− ) through a narrow tunnel of fixed charge (‘doping’). Ionic channels …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4726

Is Seeing Believing? How to Think Visually and Analyze with Both Your Eyes and Brain

26 Mar 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Ebert

This presentation will cover the basic techniques, and some of the available tools, for visualization, and will explain how to avoid miscommunicating information from visualizations.

https://nanohub.org/resources/2512

MCW07 Silicon Based Nanopore Sensors for Detection of DNA Molecules

11 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Samir Iqbal, Demir Akin, Rashid Bashir

Solid-state nanopores have emerged as possible candidates for next-generation DNA sequencing devices. In this talk, we will review our recent work in development of solid-state nanopore channels that …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3079

Nanomaterials in Biosensing Using Ion Selective Field Effect Transistors and Metal Particles

30 Jul 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Nalam Madhusudhana Rao

The multifunctionality, multilayerable architechture and size of nanomaterials offer tremendous opportunities in developing sensing platforms. Ion Selective Field Effect Transistors (ISFET) are solid …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4813

New Dimension in Performance: Harnessing 3D Integration Technology

29 Nov 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kerry Bernstein

Despite generation on generation of scaling, computer chips have remained essentially 2-dimensional. Improvements in on-chip wire delay, and in the total number of inputs and outputs has not been …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3596