Basics of Particle Adhesion

21 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Stephen P. Beaudoin

This presentation will describe the adhesion of rough, asymmetric particles with micro- to nano-scale dimension to solid surfaces. These adhesion processes are of great interest in microelectronics …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3264

Nanotechnology Research Opportunities within the Forest Products Industry

28 Apr 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Robert J. Moon

This talk will provide an overview of research opportunities within forest products industry. There will be a general description of the anatomical and chemical structure of wood, their connection …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4448

Nanomedicine for Treating Organ Failure

02 Jan 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Thomas J. Webster

Nanotechnology has begun to revolutionize numerous science and engineering fields. The use of nanotechnology in medicine has been termed nanomedicine. This presentation will highlight recent …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3766

Excellence in Computer Simulation: Computational Materials

20 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Schwegler

This presentation was one of 13 presentations in the one-day forum, "Excellence in Computer Simulation," which brought together a broad set of experts to reflect on the future of computational …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3721

MCW07 Impact of Porphyrin Functional Groups on InAs Gas Sensors

05 Nov 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Michael Garcia

Porphyrin molecules are often used for sensor engineering to improve sensitivity and selectivity to specific analytes. It is important to understand how the porphyrin HOMO-LUMO levels deplete …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3149

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

BME 695N Lecture 12: Introduction to X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and the Examples of Biologically-Relevant Applications

19 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dmitry Zemlyanov

With Dmitry Zemlyanov as guest lecturer.

https://nanohub.org/resources/3413

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

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 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

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

Oligodeoxyribonucleotide Association with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

02 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jennifer McDonald

Commercially available single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) tend to aggregate as ropes and bundles during production making them of little use in many scientific and industrial applications. An …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3009

SPMW A fresh look to amplitude-modulation AFM: Force minimization, interaction measurement, and the quest for high resolution

05 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Udo D. Schwarz

Frequency modulation atomic force microscopy (FM-AFM) has been able to deliver high-resolution atomic-scale images in ultrahigh vacuum for over one decade. In addition, there have been recent reports …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2208

Orbital Mediated Tunneling in a New Unimolecular Rectifier

25 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Robert Metzger, NCN SLC@Northwestern

In 1997 we showed that hexadecylquinolinium tricyanoquinodimethanide is a unimolecular rectifier, by scanning tunneling microscopy and also as a Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) monolayer, sandwiched between …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2748

Introduction to X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and to XPS Applications

17 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dmitry Zemlyanov

X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), which is known as Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA), is a powerful research tool for the study of the surface of solids. The technique …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2668

Understanding Deformation Processes in Nanocrystalline Metals Through the Use of Real-time Electron Microscopy Techniques

03 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Stach

It is has long been known that the grain size of a material has a substantial effect on its mechanical strength, through the well-established Hall-Petch relationship. In the past decade or so, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2689

Introduction to X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and XPS Application for Biologically Related Objects

14 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dmitry Zemlyanov

X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), which is known as Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA), is a powerful research tool for the study of the surface of solids. The technique …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2335

Highly Efficient Thermal Transport: The Application of Carbon Nanotube Array Interfaces

01 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Baratunde A. Cola

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have received much attention in recent years for their extraordinary properties that through careful engineering may be leverage for the development of numerous advantageous …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2317

Nanoparticles in Biology and Materials: Engineering the Interface through Synthesis

29 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vincent Rotello

Monolayer-protected nanoparticles provide versatile tools for nanotechnology. In our research, we use these nanoparticles as building blocks for the creation of functional magnetic and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2312

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