Basic Rules of Protein Folding

31 Dec 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Seth Lichter

How are proteins made? Inside cells, messenger RNA first instructs the ribosomes as to the order which amino acids should be joined together. Linked together and released from the ribosome, the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/6011

Gas Damping of Microcantilevers at Low Ambient Pressures

03 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Rahul Anil Bidkar

This seminar will present a theoretical model for predicting the gas damping of long, rectangular silicon microcantilevers, which are oscillating in an unbounded gaseous medium with the ambient …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5683

Sustainability: Less Talk - More Engineering

27 Oct 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Larry L. Baxter

In the last five years, sustainability and energy issues in general rose from obscurity to dominance in both the popular and technical press. In the process, the definitions, goals, and pathways seem …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5556

Affordable Clean Energy: Challenges and Opportunities

20 Oct 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Hukam C. Mongia

The technical presentation is built around the August 9th 2008 ABC News/Planet Green/Stanford Poll on Environment/Energy in which the majority of the people polled expressed support for the following …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5575

The Opposite of Human Enhancement: Nanotechnology and the Blind Chicken Problem

20 Oct 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Paul B. Thompson

Paul B. Thompson, Ph.D. is W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University. Paul is the author of The Spirit of the Soil: …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5598

From density functional theory to defect level in silicon: Does the “band gap problem” matter?

01 Oct 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Peter A. Schultz

Modeling the electrical effects of radiation damage in semiconductor devices requires a detailed description of the properties of point defects generated during and subsequent to irradiation. …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5495

Quantum and Thermal Effects in Nanoscale Devices

18 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

To investigate lattice heating within a Monte Carlo device simulation framework, we simultaneously solve the Boltzmann transport equation for the electrons, the 2D Poisson equation to get the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5448

Hydration Dynamics in an Amphiphilic Nanostructure under Controlled Hydration Conditions

16 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Amitabha Chattopadhyay

Amphiphilic surfactants self assemble to form reverse (or inverted) micelles in non-polar solvents in which the polar head groups of the surfactant monomers cluster to form a micellar core directed …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4814

Cataract, Myopathy and Keratitis: Possible use of Nanoparticles

16 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ch. Mohan Rao

Small heat shock proteins are critical for several cellular functions. Failure of heat shock proteins, thus, can cause compromised cellular activity leading to disease. Fungal Keratitis is an eye …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4817

Nanomaterials for Bone & Neural Tissue Engineering

11 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): S. Swaminathan

Tissue engineering is defined as “the application of biological, chemical and engineering principles towards the repair, restoration or regeneration of tissues using scaffolds, cells, factors alone …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5101

So What do Biologist, Biotechnologists & Pharmaceutical Scientist Want With an AFM/SPM Anyway?

11 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kunal Bose

https://nanohub.org/resources/4818

Self-assembled Monolayer Based Biosensors for Healthcare

06 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): B. D. Malhotra

There is increased demand both in developed and the developing countries for ready availability of biosensors [1-5]. In this context, self-assembled monolayer (Scheme I) based biosensors have …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4812

Nanomaterials in Biosensing Using Ion Selective Field Effect Transistors and Metal Particles

30 Jul 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Nalam Madhusudhana Rao

The multifunctionality, multilayerable architechture and size of nanomaterials offer tremendous opportunities in developing sensing platforms. Ion Selective Field Effect Transistors (ISFET) are solid …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4813

Nanocomposite-Modified Electrodes for Sensing Biological Analytes

30 Jul 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): V. Yegnaraman

Electrochemical sensing of analytes is mostly enabled by transducers based on potentiometry and amperometry. In this, design of sensing (working) electrode is of utmost importance since it only …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4816

Micro-fabricated Biosensors for Cardiac Diagnostics

30 Jul 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): V.Ramgopal Rao

In this talk the current status of an ongoing effort in the Electrical Engineering Department at IIT Bombay on the development of an integrated systems to provide point-of-care diagnostic support for …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4815

Self-association of peptides and proteins: Retrospect and prospects

30 Jul 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): R. Nagaraj

The ability of peptides and proteins to form aggregates was known from the dawn of protein and peptide chemistry! It was often considered a nuisance and attention was directed towards disaggregating …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4811

Use of Ceramic based biomaterials for their application in vitro osteogenic differentiation

30 Jul 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gopal Pande

The use of bioceramics for preparation of implants and prosthesis for applications in orthopedic surgery has been done over several years. Recently new formulations for making substrates and coatings …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4809

In Vivo Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopic Investigations of Structure and Function of Rodent Brain

30 Jul 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Anant B. Patel

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful and a versatile imaging modality for non-invasive characterization of host structure and function. MRI has grown in many directions such as …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5151

Nanohybrids as Sensors and Superstructures

30 Jul 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): K. George Thomas

We have recently initiated a detailed research program on the design of nanoparticle conjugates of organic/inorganic molecules which enable the coupling of the intrinsic functionalities of molecular …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5153

Nanobiotechnology – a different perspective

22 Jul 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Murali Sastry

The study of the synthesis, exotic properties, assembly/packaging and potential commercial application of nanomaterials is an extremely important topic of research that is expected to have …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4807