Magnesium Phyllo (Organo) Silicate: A Clay to Play with in Materials Science

24 Apr 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): M. Eswaramoorthy

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 …

http://nanohub.org/resources/9511

Carbon NanoTubes: Structure - Properties - Applications

19 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Yuri A Kruglyak

Presentation slides for seminar given for students of Faculty of Computer Sciences of Odessa State Environmental University, Ukraine by Prof. Yuri Kruglyak on May 22, 2008.

http://nanohub.org/resources/13530

Computational Investigation of Point Defect Formation and Migration in Nuclear Fuels

08 Mar 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Susan Sinnott

The stabilities of selected fission products are investigated as a function of stoichiometry in uranium oxide. The approach is density functional theory (DFT) that is used to calculate the …

http://nanohub.org/resources/13094

Density Functional Theory: A great physics success story

01 Mar 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kieron Burke

Density functional theory began with the work of Thomas and Fermi, at about the same time as Schroedinger wrote his famous equation. I will explain in general terms what density functional theory …

http://nanohub.org/resources/13253

Theoretical studies of rolled-up and wrinkled nanomembranes

20 Feb 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Peter Cendula

PhD thesis along with additional movie files.

http://nanohub.org/resources/11764

Changes of Structural and Hydrogen Desorption Properties of MgH2 Indused by Ion Irradiation

17 Jan 2012 | Notes | Contributor(s): Sandra Kurko

Changes in structural and hydrogen desorption properties of MgH2 iduced by ion irradiation have been investigated. MgH2 powder samples have been irradiated with 45 keV B3+ and 120 keV Ar8+ions, with …

http://nanohub.org/resources/12853

BME 695L Special Lecture 4: Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) for Nanomedical Systems (cells and nanoparticles)

02 Dec 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Helen McNally

Guest lecturer: Helen McNally

http://nanohub.org/resources/12625

Atomistic Material Science

03 Nov 2011 | Courses | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

This course introduces first principles electronic structure calculations of materials properties and the concept of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of materials focusing on the physics and …

http://nanohub.org/resources/11916

Tutorial 1: Atomistic Material Science - ab initio simulations of materials

03 Nov 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

This lecture introduces first principles electronic structure calculations of materials properties. It describes the approximations made to the many-body Schrodinger equation in Hartree Fock and …

http://nanohub.org/resources/11917

Tutorial 2: Atomistic Material Science - Molecular Dynamics simulations of materials

03 Nov 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

This lecture introduces the concept of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of materials focusing on the physics and approximations underlying the simulations and interpretation of their results.

http://nanohub.org/resources/11918

BME 695L Special Lecture 2: X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) in Biologically-Relevant Applications

01 Nov 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dmitry Zemlyanov

Guest lecturer: Dmitry Zemlyanov

http://nanohub.org/resources/12393

Boron Nitride Nanotube Structure

07 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Brian Demczyk

We have used high-resolution transmission electron microscopy to resolve the basal plane structure and chirality relationships in boron nitride nanotubes.

http://nanohub.org/resources/12233

Comparison of strain relaxation in epitaxial Si0.3Ge0.7 films grown on Si(001) and Ge(001)

07 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Brian Demczyk

Surface and interfacial strain have been computed for SiGe thin films grown by UHVCVD,based on measurements via transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy.

http://nanohub.org/resources/12252

Direct mechanical measurement of the tensile strength and elastic modulus of multiwalled carbon nanotubes

07 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Brian Demczyk

This work represents the first in-situ measurenment of the tensile strength of a carbon nanotuube.

http://nanohub.org/resources/12250

Growth of Cu films on hydrogen terminated Si(lQ0) and Si(lll) surf&es

07 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Brian Demczyk

We have employed reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HREM) to study Cu films grown on hydrogen terminated Si( 100) and Si( 111) …

http://nanohub.org/resources/12235

In-situ carbon nanotube tensile test

07 Oct 2011 | Animations | Contributor(s): Brian Demczyk

This represents the first in-situ tensile test observed in a transmission electron microscope.

http://nanohub.org/resources/12256

Interface structure and surface morphology of (Co, Fe, Ni)/Cu/Si(100) thin films

07 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Brian Demczyk

We have examined bilayer Co/Cu, Fe/Cu, and Ni/Cu films deposited by molecular-beam epitaxy on hydrogen-terminated @100# silicon substrates. Coauthors: V.M. Naik, A. Lukaszew, R. Naik, G. W. Auner

http://nanohub.org/resources/12237