Design of Optoelectronically-active Polymers for Organic Photovoltaic Applications

08 Feb 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Bryan W. Boudouris

Organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices are of great interest due to their promise of providing flexible, lightweight, and inexpensive alternatives to their currently-used inorganic counterparts. However, …

http://nanohub.org/resources/16695

Illinois 2011 NanoBiophotonics Summer School: Poster Day: Peng Huang

29 Nov 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Peng Huang, Nadia Jassim

Local raster scanning of high speed imaging of polymers in atomic force microscopy.

http://nanohub.org/resources/12530

Solar Cells Lecture 5: Organic Photovoltaics

29 Aug 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Organic solar cells make use of low-cost organic polymers for photovoltaics. Although these solar cells may appear to be quite different from solar cells made with conventional, inorganic …

http://nanohub.org/resources/11950

OPV: Synthesis and Nanostructure Control of All-conjugated Diblock Copolymers for the Application of Organic Electronic Devices

31 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Yue Zhang

This presentation was part of the "Organic Photovoltaics: Experiment and Theory" workshop at the 2010 Users' Meeting of the Molecular Foundry and the National Center for Electron Microscopy, both …

http://nanohub.org/resources/10502

OPV: Conjugated Polymer Design and Chemistry for Organic Photovoltaics

31 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Claire H Woo

This presentation was part of the "Organic Photovoltaics: Experiment and Theory" workshop at the 2010 Users' Meeting of the Molecular Foundry and the National Center for Electron Microscopy, both …

http://nanohub.org/resources/10504

Superficial Science – Polymer Surface Science at Purdue

26 Aug 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jeffery Youngblood

In this presentation, Professor Youngblood describes his current research projects and the theme that ties them together - surface science.

http://nanohub.org/resources/9587

Polymer Modeler

28 Jun 2010 | Tools | Contributor(s): Benjamin P Haley, Nate Wilson, Chunyu Li, Andrea Arguelles, Eugenio Jaramillo, Alejandro Strachan

Build thermoplastic polymer chains and run LAMMPS to relax the chains and study mechanical properties

http://nanohub.org/resources/polymod

Self-Consistent Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and Hexagonal Arrays as Composite Reinforcements

05 May 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): R. Byron Pipes

A self-consistent set of relationships is developed for the physical properties of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCN) and their hexagonal arrays as a function of the chiral vector integer pair, …

http://nanohub.org/resources/8933

Illinois ABE 446 Lecture 3: Quantum Dots and Polymers

11 Feb 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Kaustubh Bhalerao

NCN@illinois

http://nanohub.org/resources/8422

Nanotribology, Nanomechanics and Materials Characterization Studies

08 Jun 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Bharat Bhushan

Fundamental nanotribological studies provide insight to molecular origins of interfacial phenomena including adhesion, friction, wear and lubrication. Friction and wear of lightly loaded micro/nano …

http://nanohub.org/resources/6573

Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 17: Simulation of Polymers

30 Apr 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David M. Ceperley, Omar N Sobh

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http://nanohub.org/resources/6714

Energy and Nanoscience A More Perfect Union

29 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark A. Ratner

Huge problems of energy and sustainability confront the science/engineering community, mankind, and our planet. The energy problem comes in many dimensions, including supply, demand, conservation, …

http://nanohub.org/resources/6554

Illinois MATSE 280 Introduction to Engineering Materials, Lecture 4 : Polymer Structures

04 Oct 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Duane Douglas Johnson, Omar N Sobh

Issues to Address... What are the basic Classification? Monomers and chemical groups? Nomenclature? …

http://nanohub.org/resources/5544

Self-assembled Monolayer Based Biosensors for Healthcare

06 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): B. D. Malhotra

There is increased demand both in developed and the developing countries for ready availability of biosensors [1-5]. In this context, self-assembled monolayer (Scheme I) based biosensors have …

http://nanohub.org/resources/4812

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 …

http://nanohub.org/resources/4813

Strategies for Preparation and Manufacture of Polymer-based Nanoparticulate Formulations

21 Jul 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Stephen R. Byrn

Nanoparticles hold great promise for drug delivery applications. Several polymer-based formulations containing nanoparticles are in late phase development or on the market. In fact, polymer …

http://nanohub.org/resources/4810

Functionalized Nanomaterials at the Interface of Biology and Technology

24 Apr 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dean Ho, NCLT administator

Nanomaterials, such as block copolymeric membranes and nanodiamonds, can be engineered for a broad range of applications in energy and medicine. This presentation will highlight the relevance of …

http://nanohub.org/resources/3761

Introduction to and Advances in Self-Healing Polymers

14 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerald O. Wilson

The presenter briefly introduces the topic of Self-Healing Polymer research and continues to give a Survey of Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts for Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization-Based …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2808

Polymers for nanoparticle and nanocrystal formulations for drug delivery

15 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Stephen R. Byrn

Nanoparticles hold great promise for drug delivery applications. Nanoparticles might prove to be the only way to bring water insoluble, chemically unstable drugs to market. Because of this, this …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2690

Orientational Dependence of Friction in Polyethylene

16 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SeongJun Heo

The frictional properties of polyethylene polymer are investigated by using classical molecular dynamics simulations. Especially, the sliding orientational effect is considered in this study. The …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2601