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Characterization of Nanoparticle Release from Polymer Nanocomposites Due to Fire

July 6, 2011
Author(s)
Nasir M. Uddin, Marc R. Nyden, Rick D. Davis
Engineered nanoparticles, such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and nanofibers (CNFs) are increasingly being used as fire retardants and performance additives in polymeric materials. However, because of their small size and ability to interact with biological

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 wide range of nanoscale phenomena and materials. These areas include catalysis, precipitation

Violation of the Condon Approximation in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

June 28, 2011
Author(s)
Ming Zheng
A long-held but untested fundamental assumption in Raman spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes is that intensities arising from resonance with incident and scattered photons are equal. We present here the first complete Raman excitation profiles (REPs) for the

Self-Assembly of Dendronized Perylene Bisimides into Complex Helical Columns

June 24, 2011
Author(s)
Virgil Percec, Mihai Peterca, Timur Tadjiev, Xiangbing Zeng, Goran Ungar, Pawaret Leowanawat, Emad Aqad, Mohammad Imam, Brad Rosen, Umit Akbey, Robert Graf, Sivakumar Sekharan, Daniel Sebastiani, Hans -. Spiess, Paul A. Heiney, Steven Hudson
The synthesis of perylene 3,4:9,10-tetracarboxylic acid bisimides (PBIs) dendronized with first generation dendrons containing 0 to 4 methylenic units (m) between the imide group and the dendron, (3,4,5)12G1-m-PBI, is reported. Structural analysis of their

Imaging of nanoscale charge transport in bulk heterojunction solar cells

June 17, 2011
Author(s)
Behrang H. Hamadani, Nadine E. Gergel-Hackett, Paul M. Haney, Nikolai B. Zhitenev
We have studied the local charge transport properties of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells based on the blends of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) with a photoconductive atomic force microscope (PCAFM). We

PDH-locked, frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectrometer

June 16, 2011
Author(s)
Joseph T. Hodges, A. Cygan, Piotr Maslowski, Katarzyna E. Bielska, S. Wojtewicz, J. Domyslawska, Hisashi Abe, R.S. Trawinski, R. Ciurylo
We describe a high sensitivity and high spectral resolution laser absorption spectrometer based upon the frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy (FS-CRDS) technique. We used the Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) method to lock the probe laser to the high

Physicochemical characterization and in vitro hemolysis evaluation of silver nanoparticles

June 7, 2011
Author(s)
Vytautas Reipa, Jonghoon Choi, Nam S. Wang, Victoria M. Hitchins, Peter L. Goering, Robert Malinauskas
In anticipation of the increased use of various forms of silver as an antimicrobial agent in medical devices, the objective of this study was to evaluate the in vitro hemolytic potential of silver nanoparticles in dilute human blood, and to relate particle

Fluid interactions with metafilm/metasurfaces for tuning, sensing, and microwave assisted chemical processes

May 25, 2011
Author(s)
Joshua A. Gordon, Christopher L. Holloway, James C. Booth, James R. Baker-Jarvis, David R. Novotny, Sung Kim, Yu Y. Wang
In this paper we demonstrate tunability of a metafilm, which is the two-dimensional equivalent of a metamaterial, also referred to as a metasurface, by changing the permittivity in a micro-fluidic channel that interacts with the metafilm. Numerical

Improving Fatigue Strength of Alumina through Surface Grading

May 9, 2011
Author(s)
Yvonne B. Gerbig, Linlin Ren, Lela Liu, Sanjit Bhowmick, Malvin Janal, Van Thompson, Yu Zhang
Porcelain veneered alumina crown restorations often fail from bulk fracture resulting from radial cracks that initiate at the cementation surface with repeated flexure of the stiffer crown layers on the soft dentin support. We hypothesize that bulk

Characterization of the First Order Nonlinear Stiffened Elasticity of the Piezoelectric Layer in Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators

May 1, 2011
Author(s)
Juan C. Collado Gomez, Eduard Rocas, Jordi Mateu, Nathan D. Orloff, James C. Booth, Alberto Padillo, Juan Callaghan
This work proposes a procedure to characterize the intrinsic nonlinearities of bulk acoustic wave resonators by performing one port measurements of the second harmonic and second order intermodulation spurious signals. Closed-form expressions have been

NIST Reference Material Scaffolds Characterized for Cell Response

April 24, 2011
Author(s)
Carl G. Simon Jr., Jeff M. Coles
Reference scaffolds characterized for cell response are being developed for use as a standard for biological characterization of new scaffolds. The need for reference scaffolds to serve as a calibration standard between labs has been identified as critical

Modulus-Driven Differentiation of Marrow Stromal Cells in 3D Is Independent of Cytoskeletal Integrity

April 11, 2011
Author(s)
Carl G. Simon Jr., Kaushik Chatterjee, Sapun Parekh, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Nicole M. Moore, Marcus T. Cicerone, Marian F. Young
Cell functions such as proliferation, migration, and differentiation are key physiological processes that are influenced by the physiochemical extracellular environment. We report on the effect of three-dimensional (3D) scaffold modulus on human bone
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