KIST/PU Design and Performance of Bioresponsive Nanocarriers with Tunable Reactivity for Drug and Gene Delivery

23 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dave Thompson

Our lab has focused on the development of bioresponsive nanocarriers that are designed to release their cargo upon entry into acidic environments such as those found in cellular endosomes and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3391

KIST/PU Bridging Nonlinear Optical Imaging and Nanotechnology with Medicine

23 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ji-Xin Cheng

Our interdisciplinary research develops and utilizes state-of-the-art optical imaging techniques and nanotechnology to tackle compelling biomedical problems highly related to human health. Research …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3396

KIST/PU Phage Display Selection of Tissue-Specific Homing Peptides and their Theragnostic Applications

23 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Byung-Heon Lee

Several homing peptides that are specific to tumor cells, artherosclerotic plaques, stroke lesion, apoptotic cells and phosphatidylserine have been isolated by phage display in our laboratory. For …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3375

KIST/PU Tumor-Homing Chitosan-Based Nanoparticles for Cancer Theragnosis; Imaging, Drug Delivery and Therapy

23 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ick Chan Kwon

We have prepared self-assembled polymeric drug carriers containing fluorophore and loaded drugs for theragnostic imaging of tumors. This new type of polymeric drug carriers visualizes the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3401

KIST/PU Introduction to Global Research Laboratory (GRL) Program: Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine for Theragnosis using Nano-Bio Materials

23 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kui Won Choi

The Global Research Laboratory (GRL) program was initiated by the Korea Foundation for International Cooperation of Science and Technology (KICOS) in 2006. The GRL program has been designed to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3386

Computing the Horribleness of Soft Condensed Matter

19 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Jakobsson

A great triumph of computer simulations 40 years ago was to make the liquid state of matter understandable in terms of physical interactions between individual molecules. Prior to the first …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3424

Conquering Surface Plasmon Resonance Loss in Metallic Nanostructures

16 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mikhail A. Noginov

We have observed the compensation of loss in metal by gain in dielectric in the mixture of Ag aggregate and rhodamine 6G dye. The demonstrated six-fold enhancement of the Rayleigh scattering is the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2450

Routing Light with Nematicons: Light Localization and Steering in Liquid Crystals

10 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gaetano Assanto

Nematic liquid crystals support optical spatial solitons via light-induced molecular reorientation. Such all-optical waveguides can channel a signal towards a destination, hence permitting signal …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3271

Energy-level Alignment of Aryl Thiols Chemisorbed on Metal Surfaces: Implications for Molecular Electronic Junctions

27 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Roger D. van Zee

Charge-transport through the interface is a key part of the behavior of any electronic junction. One interface property important to molecular-electronic junctions is the energetic mismatch between …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3272

Renewable Energy from Synthetic Biology

25 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jay D. Keasling

Jay Keasling, Co-Leader of The Helios Project, is the Director of the Physical Biosciences Division at Berkeley Lab, and a groundbreaking researcher in the new scientific field of synthetic biology. …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3297

Toward Anticipatory Governance

25 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Guston

The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University (CNS-ASU) is an NSF-funded center, created in October 2005, for research, education and outreach on the societal aspects of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3270

Chamaeleo: Toward Self-Managing Service-Oriented Applications

17 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Brahim Medjahed

Service-oriented computing is slated to shape modern societies in vital areas such as healthcare, government, science, business, and finance. It utilizes services as the building blocks for …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3258

Introduction of MEMS Activity at Nano/Micro System Engineering Lab., Kyoto University

15 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Osamu Tabata

We are aiming at the realization of microsystems and nanosystems with novel and unique functions by integrating functional elements in different domains such as mechanics, electronics, chemistry, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3243

MCW07 Simple Models for Molecular Transport Junctions

13 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Misha Galperin, Abraham Nitzan, Mark A. Ratner

We review our recent research on role of interactions in molecular transport junctions. We consider simple models within nonequilibrium Green function approach (NEGF) in steady-state regime.

https://nanohub.org/resources/3072

MCW07 Conductance Switching in Fluorene/TiO2 Molecular Heterojunctions

13 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Richard L. McCreery

Molecular junctions consisting of a monolayer of fluorene and 10 nm of TiO2 between conducting contacts exhibit a memory effect upon positive polarization of the of the TiO2 for a few milliseconds. …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3071

MCW07 Molecular Electronics and the Bottom-up View of Electronic Conduction

12 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Molecular electronics is commonly associated with the bottom-up approach to nanofabrication. My objective in this talk is to point out how it also leads to a bottom-up view of electronic conduction …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3239

MCW07 Silicon Based Nanopore Sensors for Detection of DNA Molecules

11 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Samir Iqbal, Demir Akin, Rashid Bashir

Solid-state nanopores have emerged as possible candidates for next-generation DNA sequencing devices. In this talk, we will review our recent work in development of solid-state nanopore channels that …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3079

MCW07 Electronic Level Alignment at Metal-Molecule Contacts with a GW Approach

05 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jeffrey B. Neaton

Most recent theoretical studies of electron transport in single-molecule junctions rely on a Landauer approach, simplified to treat electron-electron interactions at a mean-field level within density …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3094

MCW07 Modeling Charging-based Switching in Molecular Transport Junctions

23 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Sina Yeganeh, Misha Galperin, Mark A. Ratner

We will discuss several proposed explanations for the switching and negative differential resistance behavior seen in some molecular junctions. It is shown that a proposed polaron model is …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3076

Micro-scaled Biochips with Optically Active Surfaces for Near and Far-field Analysis of Cellular Fluorescence

31 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Huw Summers

The integration of thin (< 100 nm) metal films with micro-scale optical waveguides provides a route to controlled spatial excitation of cellular fluorescence within a biochip platform. Surface …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3121