BNC Annual Research Symposium: Nanoscale Energy Conversion

23 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher

This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2636

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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2601

Planning for Disaster: Designing a Cleanroom to Minimize Risk Should a Disaster Occur

09 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): John Weaver

The cleanliness levels of a cleanroom or other high-technology facility make it inherently vulnerable to a disaster such as a fire. Historically, even a small event of this type can cause …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2595

High-Aspect-Ratio Micromachining of Titanium: Enabling New Functionality and Opportunity in Micromechanical Systems Through Greater Materials Selection

09 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Masa Rao

Traditionally, materials selection has been limited in high-aspect-ratio micromechanical applications, due primarily to the predominance of microfabrication processes and infrastructure dedicated to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2590

CMOS-Nano Hybrid Technology: a nanoFPGA-related study

04 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Wei Wang

Dr. Wei Wang received his PhD degree in 2002 from Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, in Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2002 to 2004, he was an assistant professor in the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2567

The Impact of Protein Flexibility on Ligand Binding to Proteins: A Computational Perspective

22 Mar 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Markus A. Lill

Nowadays, computer-aided drug discovery (CADD) concepts are routinely used in academia and industry for identifying and optimizing lead structures. While CADD techniques have been widely used to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2472

Computer Simulation of Nanoparticles, Viruses, and Electrical Power-Generating Bacteria

20 Mar 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Peter J. Ortoleva

Models of cells and nanometer-scale biosystems are presented that clarify their physico-chemical characteristics and allow for computer- aided design of therapeutic and nanotechnical devices. …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2485

Antiestrogenic Conjugates as New Breast Cancer Chemoprevention Agents

08 Mar 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ross Weatherman

Tamoxifen is the first drug specifically approved for the prevention of cancer and arguably the most successful anticancer drug of all time. Although millions of breast cancer patients have benefited …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2366

Introduction to X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and XPS Application for Biologically Related Objects

14 Feb 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/2335

Simple Harmonic Oscillator

15 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Heng Li

One of the most important model systems in quantum mechanics because a wide variaty of physical situations can be reduced to it either exactly or approximately. In particular, a system near an …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2337

Particle in a Box

15 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Heng Li

The particle in a box (or the infinite potential well) is a simple idealized system that is completely solved within quantun mechanics. The infinite potential well is a finite sized region in space …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2339

Dendrimer-Templated Catalyst for Controlled Growth of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Plasma-Enhanced CVD

20 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Placidus Amama

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are an important class of materials with several technological applications because they possess unparalleled properties in terms of ballistic electrical conductivity, thermal …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2341

SPMW Interplay between theory and experiment in AFM nanomechanical studies of polymers

30 Nov 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Sergei Magonov, Sergey Belikov

High-resolution imaging of surfaces and compositional mapping of heterogeneous materials are the main functions of atomic force microscopy (AFM) in studies of polymer materials. Compositional mapping …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2030

Perspectives on NanoScience and Engineering Education (NSEE)

09 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Robert P. H. Chang

Building capacity in NSEE is the driving mission for the National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education (NCLT). Robert Chang, the Director of NCLT, will …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2329

SPMW Nanotube, nanoneedle and nanomeniscus: mechanical and wetting properties of modified AFM tip apex

12 Dec 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): J. P. Aimé

Among AFM microscopes, Dynamic force microscopes (DFM) are very sensitive to variation of minute forces involved in the interaction between the tip and the surface. However, despite numerous efforts, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2103

SPMW Nanomechanics: from nanotechnology to biology

12 Dec 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Elisa Riedo

The development of new materials with size of few nanometers has opened a new field of scientific and technological research. The goal is to develop faster and better communication systems and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2101

SPMW Nonlinear dynamics in AFM - chaos and parametric resonance

05 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Arvind Raman

The field of nonlinear dynamics deals with mathematical techniques to study the nonlinear equations that serve as models of physical systems. The benefits of using nonlinear dynamics concepts to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2238

Highly Efficient Thermal Transport: The Application of Carbon Nanotube Array Interfaces

01 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Baratunde A. Cola

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have received much attention in recent years for their extraordinary properties that through careful engineering may be leverage for the development of numerous advantageous …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2317

Surprises on the nanoscale: Plasmonic waves that travel backward and spin birefringence without magnetic fields

08 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Daniel Neuhauser

As nanonphotonics and nanoelectronics are pushed down towards the molecular scale, interesting effects emerge. We discuss how birefringence (different propagation of two polarizations) is …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2256

Nanoparticles in Biology and Materials: Engineering the Interface through Synthesis

29 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vincent Rotello

Monolayer-protected nanoparticles provide versatile tools for nanotechnology. In our research, we use these nanoparticles as building blocks for the creation of functional magnetic and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2312