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Sustainability: Less Talk - More Engineering
27 Oct 2008 | | 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 to becoming more confused rather than more focused. This presentation discusses sustainability...
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Sustainable Energy Solutions for a Limited Fossil Fuel Future
01 Dec 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Rakesh Agrawal
Rakesh Agrawal is a member and participated in the National Academy of Engineering Study on "Electricity from Renwable Resources." His lecture will be based on his independent work in the area of sustainable solutions.
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Synthesis & Performance of Biofunctional Organic Interfaces for Sensing, Protein Crystallization and Drug Delivery
26 Jul 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Dave Thompson
Synthesis & Performance of Biofunctional Organic Interfaces for Sensing, Protein Crystallization and Drug Delivery
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Synthetic and Processing Strategies to New Molecular and Polymeric...
28 Jul 2005 | | Contributor(s):: Antonio Facchetti, Tobin Marks
Recent achievements in the design and synthesis of new arene/heteroaromatic oligomers/molecules functionalized with a variety of phenacyl, alkylcarbonyl, and perfluoroalkylcarbonyl will be presented. These organic semiconductors exhibit low-lying LUMOs allowing efficient electron...
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TCAD Revisited, 2007: An Engineer’s Point of View
19 Dec 2007 | | Contributor(s):: Constantin Bulucea
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 science and engineering.
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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 | | 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 future, it would be useful for today's undergraduate classroom to make use of teaching approaches...
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Teaching Risk Studies
24 Apr 2008 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Berube
Risk studies needs to be taught to all students. While not necessitating a stand-alone status in educational settings prior to post-secondary education, it might behoove to find creative ways to add components of risk studies to K-12 curriculum. This lecture will examine some of the challenges...
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Testicular Cancer
16 Aug 2005 | | Contributor(s):: Stephen D. Williams
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The Challenges of Micro-System Product Development
03 Jun 2009 | | Contributor(s):: James J. Allen
This talk will discuss the historical development of micro‐system technology, the products that have been developed and the challenges to development of a reliable product.
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The Effect of Temperature Control on the Mechanical Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes
29 Mar 2006 | | Contributor(s):: SeongJun Heo, Susan Sinnott
The effect of thermostat configurations on the mechanical behavior of empty and butane (n-C4H10) filled (10,10) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is examined using classical, atomistic, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In particular, the influence of different types of thermostats, relative numbers of...
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The Elusive Spin Transistor
11 Apr 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta
This presentation is a short introductory tutorial on spin-transistors.
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The Functional Protocell concept
23 Mar 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Eric Jakobsson
We have invented and created the first prototype of the Functional Protocell.We define the “functional protocell" as a nanoporous solid surrounded by a membrane. The cavities in the solid can be filled with any desired electrolyte up to the limit of solubility. The surrounding membrane can...
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The Impact of Protein Flexibility on Ligand Binding to Proteins: A Computational Perspective
22 Mar 2007 | | Contributor(s):: Markus A. Lill
Nowadays, computer-aided drug discovery (CADD) concepts are routinely used in academia and industry for identifying and optimizing lead structures. While CADD techniques have been widely used to attain a qualitative understanding of ligand binding to proteins, a current challenge is to...
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The Limits of CMOS Scaling from a Power-Constrained Technology Optimization Perspective
17 Oct 2006 | | 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 that arise at the limits of scaling, and will then turn to an analysis of scaling in the presence of...
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The Multicore Era: Crisis or (and?) Opportunity?
24 Mar 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Mithuna Thottethodi
This talk will provide a brief overview of how we got to the multicore era, the implications and challenges for hardware/software developers and users, and some informed speculation on where the trends may be headed.
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The nanoHUB Science Gateway
07 Mar 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Sebastien Goasguen
The TeraGrid Science Gateways program was initiated to expand the influence of TeraGrid resources through back-end integration into community developed portals and desktop applications. Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, SDSC, TeraGrid Area Director for Science Gateways will give a brief overview of the...
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The Opposite of Human Enhancement: Nanotechnology and the Blind Chicken Problem
20 Oct 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Paul B. Thompson
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The Potential of Nanostructured Materials to Address the Challenge of a Sustainable Energy Resource
14 Feb 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Mildred S. Dresselhaus
An overview is presented on the grand challenges to the science community in the next few decades in meeting global energy needs for the 21st century. Major advances in our present capabilities will be needed for energy production and storage and for its conversion from one form to another. These...
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The Rush to Market, Lack of Knowledge, and Public Trust
11 Apr 2006 | | 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 unusual structures and activities as compared to ordinary-scale amounts of the same material. Research...
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Therapeutic Agent Delivery
16 Aug 2005 | | Contributor(s):: Charles Erlichman