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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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