The Rush to Market, Lack of Knowledge, and Public Trust

11 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vivian Weil

What should rivet our attention now is the rush to get nano products into the market long before the nanoscale phenomena these products exploit are understood. Nanoscale materials often present …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1225

Real-time Technology Assessment

11 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Guston

Real-time technology assessment (RTTA) is a social technology that relies on fundamental understandings of the social, moral, political, and economic dynamics of knowledge-based innovation that have …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1224

Nanofabrication

11 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): R. Fabian Pease

Nanotechnology comprises the techniques for making things small (<100 nm) — i.e., nanopatterning — and the resulting applications, ranging from the results of undirected nanopatterning …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1223

EDA Challenges in Nanoscale Design: A Synopsys Perspective

11 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Rich Goldman

Rich Goldman gives an overview of the current state of the semiconductor and EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industry with a special focus on the impact of nanometer scale design on design tools …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1220

Middleware Support for Virtual Distributed Environments in a Shared Distributed Infrastructure

11 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dongyan Xu

The job and service-oriented paradigm of the Grid enables a wide spectrum of applications to share the massive computational power across the Internet. In this talk, I will present a …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1217

Molecular Dynamics Studies of Gaseous Transport

05 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ki-Ho Lee, Jason Myers, Susan Sinnott

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have generated a great deal of interest due to their unique properties. In this study, we examine the transport properties of various nanotubes using REBO-MD to determine the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1198

Mechanical Properties of Surfactant Aggregates at Water-Solid Interfaces

05 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Patrick Chiu, Kunal Shah, Susan Sinnott

This is a talk on the mechanical properties of surfactant aggregates at water-solid interfaces using Micelle-MD. This includes silica indentations of micelles with comparison to experimental …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1192

Tribological Properties of Carbon Nanotube Bundles

03 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SeongJun Heo, Susan Sinnott

The tribological properties of carbon nanotube(CNT) bundles are investigated in this research using classical molecular dynamics(MD) simulations. Bundle of hollow single walled CNT or CNT filled with …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1168

The Effect of Temperature Control on the Mechanical Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes

29 Mar 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SeongJun Heo, Susan Sinnott

The effect of thermostat configurations on the mechanical behavior of empty and butane (n-C4H10) filled (10,10) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is examined using classical, atomistic, molecular dynamics (MD) …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1140

Mark Ratner Interview on Nanotechnology

23 Mar 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark A. Ratner, Krishna Madhavan

Nanotechnology interview with Krishna Madhavan.

https://nanohub.org/resources/1135

Irradiation and Nanomechanics of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

23 Mar 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Sharon K. Pregler, Susan Sinnott

Irradiation of nanotube structures with electron and ion beams has been used to produce functionalized nanotubes and fundamentally new structures, including junctions. Here, we build on previous …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1114

Engineering the Fiber-Matrix Interface in Carbon Nanotube Composites

23 Mar 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Sharon K. Pregler, Yanhong Hu, Susan Sinnott

Particle depositions on polymer and carbon substrates to induce surface chemical modification are a growing research topic in particle-surface interactions due to localized deposition energy and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1113

Bending Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

21 Mar 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SeongJun Heo, Susan Sinnott

The effect of filling carbon nanotubes on the mechanical, especially bending, behavior of empty and filled (10,10) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is examined using classical, atomistic, molecular dynamics …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1106

Creating Research Links between Science at the Nanoscale and Science Education

28 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Nora H. Sabelli

This talk will address what is needed to reduce the gap between current science education and science education that incorporates the ideas in current nanoscience. The ability to manipulate matter at …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1098

Metal Oxide Nanowires: Synthesis, Characterization and Device Applications

07 Mar 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jia Grace Lu

Various metal oxide nanowires, such as ZnO, SnO2, Fe2O3, In2O3 and Ga2O3, have been synthesized by chemical vapor deposition method. Their structures and properties are characterized by TEM, SEM, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1096

The nanoHUB Science Gateway

07 Mar 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Sebastien Goasguen

The TeraGrid Science Gateways program was initiated to expand the influence of TeraGrid resources through back-end integration into community developed portals and desktop applications. Nancy …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1087

Launch of a Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network

21 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): larry bell

The Museum of Science, Boston, in partnership with the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Exploratorium in San Francisco, has been selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to form and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1049

Molecular Transport Structures: Elastic Scattering, Vibronic Effects and Beyond

13 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark A. Ratner, Abraham Nitzan, Misha Galperin

Current experimental efforts are clarifying quite beautifully the nature of charge transport in so-called molecular junctions, in which a single molecule provides the channel for current flow between …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1018

Service-Oriented Science: Scaling eScience Application & Impact

08 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ian Foster

My work is frequently motivated by the information technology concerns of "big science", a frequently fascinating source of problems for the computer scientist due to the broad scope and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1024

Active Photonic Nanomaterials: From Random to Periodic Structures

06 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Hui Cao

Active photonic nanomaterials, which have high gain or large nonlinearity, are essential to the development of nanophotonic devices and circuits. In this talk, I will provide a review of our …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1012