A Vision for the Digital Data Universe

18 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Christopher L. Greer

Enabling the nation's future through discovery, learning and innovation.

https://nanohub.org/resources/2291

SPMW Mechanisms of atomic friction studied by friction force microscopy

12 Dec 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ernst Meyer

Force microscopy is a versatile instrument to investigate physical phenomena on surfaces. The first emphasis is on the study of friction on the nanometer-scale, also called nanotribology. It will be …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2102

On Modeling Metabolic Systems

04 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Doraiswami Ramkrishna

Modeling metabolism has been generally based on the numerous cellular reactions to be in steady state with respect to the external fluxes on the cell boundary. The essence of this "steady state" …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2165

Plasmon-resonant Nanorods as Multifunctional Imaging Agents

28 Dec 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alexander Wei

Gold nanorods have several outstanding characteristics as optical contrast agents for biomedical imaging. Their strong optical absorption at near-infrared (NIR) frequencies can be used to generate …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2127

McCoy Lecture: Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demon

04 Oct 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

This is a video taped live lecture covering roughly the same material as lecture 1 of "Concepts of Quantum Transport". Video only.

https://nanohub.org/resources/1831

Materials Science on the Atomic Scale with the 3-D Atom Probe

08 Nov 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): George D. W. Smith

Some of the key goals of materials science and technology are to be able to design a material from first principles, to predict its behaviour, and also to optimise the processing route for its …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1973

Potassium Channels: Conduction, Selectivity, Blockage, Inactivation, and Gating

03 Nov 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Benoit Roux, NCN SLC@Northwestern

The determination of the structure of the KcsA K+ channel from Streptomyces lividan has made it possible to investigate the function of a biological channel at the atomic level. Because of its …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1959

The Limits of CMOS Scaling from a Power-Constrained Technology Optimization Perspective

17 Oct 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David J. Frank

As CMOS scaling progresses, it is becoming very clear that power dissipation plays a dominant role in limiting how far scaling can go. This talk will briefly describe the various physical effects …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1883

Nanoelectronic Architectures

24 Feb 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Greg Snider

Nanoelectronic architectures at this point are necessarily speculative: We are still evaluating many different approaches to fabrication and are exploring unconventional devices made possible at the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/181

Information Theory and Cell/Nanoparticle Modeling

03 Mar 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Peter J. Ortoleva

Physico-chemical models of cells and nanoparticles are being developed for pure and applied studies. Nanoparticles are simulated by a Poisson-Boltzmann equation (for determining the electric force …

https://nanohub.org/resources/182

Autonomic Adaptation of Virtual Distributed Environments in a Multi-Domain Infrastructure

11 Jul 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ryan Riley, Dongyan Xu

By federating resources from multiple domains, a shared infrastructure provides aggregated computation resources to a large number of users. With rapid advances in virtualization technologies, we …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1633

History of Semiconductor Engineering

28 Jun 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Bo Lojek

When basic researchers started working on semiconductors during the late nineteen thirties and on integrated circuits at the end of the nineteen fifties, they did not know that their work would …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1609

What Can We Learn About Doing Content-Based Educational Research on Teaching and Learning from the 30-Year History of Research in Chemical Education?

07 Jun 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): George Bodner

This talk is based on the assumption that one of the functions of the National Center for Learning Teaching is to promote basic research on teaching and learning within the content domain of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1548

Molecular Dynamics Simulations with the Second-Generation Reactive Empirical Bond Order (REBO) Potential

02 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Wen-Dung Hsu, Susan Sinnott

In this presentation, the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation will be introduced first. The applications of MD simulation, the procedure of MD simulation and some speed-up methods in MD simulation …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1165

Logic Devices and Circuits on Carbon Nanotubes

05 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Joerg Appenzeller

Over the last years carbon nanotubes (CNs) have attracted an increasing interest as building blocks for nano-electronics applications. Due to their unique properties enabling e.g. ballistic transport …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1487

Teaching approaches for including nanotechnology and other current topics in the undergraduate curriculum: Context, inquiry and authentic science practice

02 May 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gabriela C. Weaver

Topics in nanotechnology and nanoscience are unlikely to be found to any great extent in traditional instructional materials, including textbooks and laboratory manuals. While this may change in the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1276

NCSA: Powering Cyber-research in the 21st Century

09 May 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Thom H. Dunning

Since its creation by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the state of Illinois in 1986, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1266

Establishing a Nanotechnology Business

24 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Daniel Coy

There are several fundamental needs to consider when transitioning nanotechnology discovery into a business and, ultimately, the marketplace. These needs include steady cash flow, market focus, the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1247

First Principles-Based Modeling of materials: Towards Computational Materials Design

20 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with accurate, first principles-based interatomic potentials is a powerful tool to uncover and characterize the molecular-level mechanisms that govern the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1239

From Vision to Reality: The NNI at Five Years

11 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mihail "Mike" Roco

Science and engineering are at the heart of the human endeavor leading to a "knowledge society." They also are the primary drivers of global technological competition. The newest key player in this …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1230