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Books

In Situ Neutron Techniques for Studying Lithium Ion Batteries

May 1, 2012

Author(s)

Howard Wang, Robert Gregory Downing, Joseph Dura, Daniel S. Hussey

We review in situ neutron techniques for studying lithium ion batteries. Four neutron measurement techniques, neutron depth profiling (NDP), neutron...

Nano-Apatitic Composite Scaffolds for Stem Cell Delivery and Bone Tissue Engineering

April 15, 2012

Author(s)

Hockin H. Xu, Carl Simon Jr.

The need for bone defect repair and regeneration arises from trauma, disease, congenital deformity, and tumor resection. Bone fracture occurs to seven million...

Detecting and Characterizing Individual Molecules with Single Nanopores

February 28, 2012

Author(s)

John J. Kasianowicz, Joseph W. Robertson, Joseph E. Reiner, Rodrigues Claudeio, Krasilnikov V. Oleg, Henrickson E. Sarah

Neutron Diffraction Measurements for Residual Stresses in AL-6XN Stainless Steel Welded Beams

February 20, 2012

Author(s)

Xiaohua Cheng, Henry J. Prask, Thomas H. Gnaupel-Herold, Vladimir Luzin, John W. Fisher

Polymer Dynamics in Constrained Geometries

February 1, 2012

Author(s)

Christopher Soles, Ryan Nieuwendaal, Huagen H. Peng

The wide-spread interest in the dynamical property of organic materials under strong states of confinement largely began with differential scanning calorimeter...

New Capabilities for Interaction Modeling in BPMN 2.0

January 15, 2012

Author(s)

Conrad E. Bock, Stephen White

Interaction models capture how businesses interact with customers and each other to provide products and services. The trend toward combinations of products and...

Frontiers of Characterization and Metrology for Nanoelectronics: 2011

December 28, 2011

Author(s)

David G. Seiler, Alain C. Diebold, Robert McDonald, Amal Chabli, Erik M. Secula

Feedback Control of Optically Trapped Particles

December 17, 2011

Author(s)

Jason J. Gorman, Arvind K. Balijepalli, Thomas W. LeBrun

Optical trapping is a method for manipulating micro- and nanoscale particles that is widely used in biophysics and colloid science, among other areas. This...

Superconductivity and the SI (Metric) Systems Based on Fundamental Constants

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Edwin R. Williams

Superconducting measurements that help connect the unit of mass, the kilogram, to the Planck constant h are bringing the time when the scale for all units in...

Structure and Rheology of Fiber Suspensions

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Aaron Paul Rust Eberle, Kevin Ortman, Donald G. Baird

Metal Amidoboranes

September 1, 2011

Author(s)

Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Taner Yildirim

Metal amidoboranes, consisting of [NH 2BH 3]- anion and various metal cations, are a new class of compounds that have recently attracted great attentions due to...

Advanced Topics in Forensic DNA Typing: Methodology

August 10, 2011

Author(s)

John Butler

This is a textbook containing 18 chapters and four appendices covering the topic of forensic DNA analysis.

Chapter 21 Calibration of Aerosol Instruments

July 5, 2011

Author(s)

Bean T. Chen, Robert A. Fletcher, Yung-Sung Cheng

This chapter reviews calibration techniques relevant to aerosol measurement devices, such as sizing instruments, condensation nuclei counters, and mass monitors...

Atomistic simulations for engineering: Potentials and challenges

July 1, 2011

Author(s)

Chandler A. Becker

Atomistic simulations, both electronic structure and non-quantum-mechanical methods such as molecular dynamics, are gaining in popularity and utility to treat a...

Local oxidation using dynamic force mode: Toward higher reliability and efficiency

June 15, 2011

Author(s)

John A. Dagata, H Kuramochi

Local oxidation by scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is used extensively for patterning nanostructures on metallic, insulating, and semiconducting thin films and...

Viscosity of Gases

June 6, 2011

Author(s)

Marcia L. Huber, Allan H. Harvey

Tables of recommended values for the viscosity of common gases as a function of temperature.

Thermal Conductivity of Gases

June 6, 2011

Author(s)

Marcia L. Huber, Allan H. Harvey

Tables of thermal conductivity of common gases as a function of temperature

Correlation Table for Ultraviolet Active Functionalities

June 6, 2011

Author(s)

Thomas J. Bruno, Paris D. Svoronos

This table provides correlations of UV absorptions with structure.

Some Basic Techniques of Analytical Chemistry

June 6, 2011

Author(s)

Thomas J. Bruno

table provides a very basic description of some of the more common analytical techniques for which data are provided in this chapter.

Neutron Backscattering

May 11, 2011

Author(s)

B. Frick, Dan A. Neumann

We review the status of neutron backscattering spectrometers on reactors and spallation sources including the most recent instrument developments. After setting...

Combinatorial Screening of Hydrogel Scaffolds for 3D Cell Culture

May 2, 2011

Author(s)

Kaushik Chatterjee, Marian F. Young, Carl Simon Jr.

Optimizing cell-material interactions is critical towards maximizing regeneration in tissue engineering. Combinatorial and high-throughput (CHT) methods can be...

Random Lines: A New Population Set-based Global Optimization Algorithm Based on Quadratic Models

April 27, 2011

Author(s)

Ismet Sahin

In this technical note, we propose a new population set-based evolutionary global optimization algorithm for minimizing cost functions. We select pairs of...

Graphene, Ge/III-V, Nanowires and Emerging Materials for Post-CMOS Applications 3 -and- Tutorials in Nanotechnology: Dielectrics in Nanosystems

April 21, 2011

Author(s)

Alamgir Karim, Veena Misra, G. Srinivasan, Yaw S. Obeng, S De Gendt

This issue of ECS Transactions will cover the following topics in (a) Graphene Material Properties, Preparation, Synthesis and Growth; (b) Metrology and...

Calorimetric Sensors

April 15, 2011

Author(s)

Richard E. Cavicchi

The calorimetric gas sensor has evolved from a simple metal hot wire to a modern device fabricated using micromachining techniques. The principle of operation...

Light Scattering Methods

April 9, 2011

Author(s)

Theodore V. Vorburger, Richard M. Silver, Rainer Brodmann, Boris Brodmann, Jorg Seewig

Light scattering belongs to a class of techniques known as area-integrating methods for measuring surface texture. Rather than being based on coordinate...

New Research in Nanotechnology - Nanotechnology Science and Technology Series

February 19, 2011

Author(s)

Michael T. Postek, Joseph J. Kopanski, David A. Wollman

NIST is developing a broad range of nanometrology (measurements) and nanomanufacturing techniques necessary for the successful commercialization of...

A Survey of hp-Adaptive Strategies for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations

January 3, 2011

Author(s)

William F. Mitchell, Marjorie A. McClain

The hp version of the finite element method (hp-FEM) combined with adaptive mesh refinement is a particularly efficient method for solving partial differential...

X-ray methods in high-intensity discharges and metal-halide lamps: X-ray induced flourescence

January 1, 2011

Author(s)

John J. Curry, W. P. Lapatovich, Albert Henins

We describe the use of x-ray induced fluorescence to study metal-halide high-intensity discharge lamps and to measure equilibrium vapor pressures of metal...

Cold light from hot atoms

January 1, 2011

Author(s)

John J. Curry, G G. Lister

The introduction of rare earth atoms and molecules into lighting discharges led to great advances in efficacy of these lamps. Atoms such as Dy, Ho and Ce...

Measuring the Hydrodynamic Size of Nanoparticles in Aqueous Media Using Batch-Mode Dynamic Light Scattering

January 1, 2011

Author(s)

Vincent A. Hackley, Jeffrey D. Clogston

Particle size characterization is of particular importance to nanomedicine as nano is a dimensional definition, and the size similarity of nanoparticles to...

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