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Nanotechnology

Nanofluidics

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Advanced Materials Metrology

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Electromagnetic devices cannot operate without the interaction of electromagnetic waves with materials, and the characterization of the interface between fields and materials will be a critical task for any device or metrology development from nanoscale to larger scales. Areas of impact over the
simulated 3d SEM images of a 60nm gold nanoparticle

Computational Scanning Electron Microscopy

Ongoing
In many cases, SEM measurements are carried out without knowledge of the best measurement conditions, partly due to engineering limits of the SEM, but also due to lack of thorough knowledge of the physics of the signal generation. For example, in many cases the best-quality results can be obtained
Microfluidic diffusive chemostat

Measurements for minimal cells

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Minimal cells are cells whose genome has been stripped of all but those genes essential for replication, in a process called "genome minimization." NIST and collaborators demonstrated genome minimization coupled to single cell imaging as a powerful approach to investigate the minimal genetic

Publications

Entropic modulation of divalent cation transport

Author(s)
Yechan Noh, Demian Riccardi, Alexander Smolyanitsky
Aqueous cations permeate subnanoscale pores by crossing free energy barriers dominated by competing enthalpic contributions from transiently decreased ion

Molecular transport enhancement in purely metallic carbon nanotube porins

Author(s)
Yuhao Li, Sidi Zhao, Rahul Prasanna Misra, Chenxing Liang, Alice Judith Gillen, jobaer abdullah, Ted Laurence, Jeffrey Fagan, Narayana Aluru, Daniel Blankschtein, Aleksandr Noy
Nanofluidic channels impose extreme confinement on water and ions, giving rise to unusual transport phenomena that strongly depend on the interactions at the
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