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

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