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[Illinois] Mechanical Design Considerations for Stretchable Cell Culture Systems
08 Aug 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Chelsey Simmons
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[Illinois] Gold Nanostars as Tiny Hitchhikers for Cancer Therapeutics
01 Aug 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Teri Odom
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[Illinois] BioNanotechnology Summer Institute 2014
01 Aug 2014 | | Contributor(s):: NanoBio Node
Attendees participate in two weeks of lectures and hands-on training in engineering and physical science laboratory techniques by experts in the field. Topics include cancer nanotechnology, cell mechanics, molecular biology, micro fabrication, and NanoBio devices.Featuring...
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[Illinois] DIY BIOSENSORS Day 3 Summer 2014 Workshop
03 Jul 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Kaustubh Bhalerao
In Day 3, the students continue building their first models of the biosensors. Once completed, they test out their newly-built biosensor with spoiled milk and evaluate their design. The students then start designing their second prototype. At the end, then discussed and reevaluated their...
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[Illinois] DIY BIOSENSORS Day 4 Summer 2014 Workshop
28 Jun 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Kaustubh Bhalerao
In Day 4, the second prototype biosensors continued to be tested. The thought process of building an effective biosensor was then discussed. There were five steps taken: the design objective, design criteria, first prototype, lessons learned, and second prototype. Each of these steps was then...
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[Illinois] DIY BIOSENSORS Day 5 Summer 2014 Workshop
28 Jun 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Kaustubh Bhalerao
In Day 5, each group gave a presentation about the biosensor they had created. They discussed the design objective, design criteria, first prototype, lessons learned, and the second prototype. In trying to depict their biosensor as the best, they learned what is sought from the market when...
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[Illinois] DIY BIOSENSORS Day 2 Summer 2014 Workshop
28 Jun 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Kaustubh Bhalerao
In Day 2, the students start out by brainstorming a design for their biosensor and the shape that they will cut it in. The students start their first prototype and build throughout the video.This nanoBIO node workshop is a one week intensive high school Workshop on biosensors led by Kaustubh...
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[Illinois] DIY BIOSENSORS Day 1 Summer 2014 Workshop
26 Jun 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Kaustubh Bhalerao
In Day 1, the lecture starts out by discussing the three definitions of a biosensor. These definitions are: something that measures a physical process, something that measures a molecular signature of a process, or a sensor that uses biological materials that may or may not measure biological...
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[Illinois] Cooperation and Construction: From Multicellularity to Eusociality
28 Apr 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Corina Tarnita
The evolutionary trajectory of life on earth is one of increasing size and complexity. Yet the standard equations of evolutionary dynamics describe mutation and selection among similar organisms that compete on the same level of organization. I will try to outline a mathematical theory that might...
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[Illinois] How to Break the "Fundamental" Limits of Nanobiosensing
07 Apr 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Muhammad A. Alam
As the future of Moore’s law of transistor scaling appears uncertain, electronics is being reinvented by broadening the focus to other areas including macroelectronics (electronics of large, possibly flexible and transparent displays), bioelectronics (e.g., nanobio sensors for genomics,...
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Nanoindentation
28 Oct 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Taha Goudarzi, AbderRahman N Sobh, Kathy Walsh, Nahil Sobh, Iwona Jasiuk
Nanoindentation for Mechanical Characterization of Soft Materials
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Mathematics of Ions in Channels and Solutions: Stochastic Derivations, Direct, Variational and Inverse Solutions that fit Data
03 Feb 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Bob Eisenberg
Literally thousands of biologists study the properties of channels in experiments every day. My collaborators and I have shown how the relevant equations can be derived (almost) from stochastic differential equations, and how they can be solved in inverse, variational, and direct problems using...
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[Illinois] RiPPs: A Treasure Trove for Bioengineering
31 Jan 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Wilfred A. van der Donk
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nanoDDSCAT
23 Apr 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Prashant K Jain, Nahil Sobh, Jeremy Smith, AbderRahman N Sobh, Sarah White, Jacob Faucheaux, John Feser
Calculate scattering and absorption of light by targets with arbitrary geometries and complex refractive index.
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cadnano to PDB File Converter
13 Nov 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Jejoong Yoo, AbderRahman N Sobh, Chen-Yu Li, Aleksei Aksimentiev
Accepts CadNano files in the form of *.json and outputs a file in *.pdb which can be read by programs such as VMD.
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Functionalization Workbench
30 Aug 2013 | | Contributor(s):: AbderRahman N Sobh, Chen-Yu Li, Nahil Sobh, Aleksei Aksimentiev
Using molecular dynamic simulation - explore the interactions between a molecular structure and substrate when they are linked together.
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[Illinois] Graphene Synthesis from Biochar using Wet Chemical Treatment Process
27 Sep 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Sriraam Chandrasekaran
Biochar is a major by-product from pyrolysis and gasification of biomass. Biochar finds potential applications in soil amendment, carbon sequestration, super capacitors, adsorbents, etc. However, its applicability is limited by its properties such as low carbon content, low porosity, and surface...
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[Illinois] B3SI 2012: Closing Session
17 Aug 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Rashid Bashir, Lizzanne DeStefano, Hsiang-Yu Angie Wang, Hao-Ming Hsiao, Jimmy K. Hsia, Laura Arriola Miller
Deeper understandings of biological systems and advances in nanotechnology have provided new opportunities to make significant progress in mechanobiology, biosensing and dynamic control of engineered systems, with wide range of applications such as cancer research. In order to take advantage of...
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[Illinois] MCB 493 Lecture 1: Vectors, Matrices, and Basic Neural Computations
03 Feb 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Thomas J. Anastasio
Using mathematical and computational methods to simulate many aspects of neural systems function.
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Tensile Mechanics of alpha-Helical Polypeptides
30 Aug 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Korosh Torabi, George C. Schatz
This model is capable of making quantitatively accurate predictions of force-extension behavior of a given helix-forming polypeptide sequence including its dependence on pH, temperature and ionic strength.