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Gradient Nanofiber Scaffold Libraries for Screening Cell Response to Poly(e-caprolactone)-Calcium Phosphate Composites

March 1, 2013
Author(s)
Carl G. Simon Jr., Limin Sun, Laurence C. Chow, William Miles, Christopher K. Tison, Kaushik Chatterjee, Marian F. Young, Vinoy Thomas, Murugan Ramalingam
A 2-spinnerette approach has been developed for fabricating nanofiber scaffold gradients for use as 1) scaffold libraries for screening the effect of nanofiber properties on cell response and 2) templates for generating graded tissue interfaces. Although

Size-Dependent Structural Distortions

January 7, 2013
Author(s)
Michael D. Anderson, Colby L. Heideman, Qiyin Lin, Mary Smeller, Robert S. Kokenyesi, Andrew Herzing, Ian M. Anderson, Douglas A. Keszler, Paul Zschack, David C. Johnson
Recently we reported that intergrowth compounds [(MSe)1+y]m(TSe2)n, with M = Pb, Bi Ce} and T = W, Nb, Ta} self assemble from designed precursors. The values of m and n represent, respectively, the number of MSe and TSe2 structural units of the unit cell

Structure and Dynamics Studies of Concentrated Micrometer-Sized Colloidal Suspensions

January 7, 2013
Author(s)
Fan Zhang, Andrew J. Allen, Lyle E. Levine, Jan Ilavsky, Gabrielle G. Long
We present an experimental study of the structural and dynamical properties of concentrated suspensions of a series of different sized polystyrene microspheres dispersed in glycerol for volume fraction concentrations between 10 % and 20 %. The static

High-energy Ultra-Small Angle X-ray Scattering Instrument at the Advanced Photon Source

December 1, 2012
Author(s)
Andrew J. Allen, Lyle E. Levine, Fan Zhang, Gabrielle G. Long, Jan Ilavsky, Pete R. Jemian
This paper reports recent tests performed on the Bonse-Hart-type ultra-small angle X-ray scattering (USAXS) instrument at the Advanced Photon Source with higher-order reflection optics — Si (440) instead of Si (220) — and with X-ray energies greater than

Synthesis and characterization of model crosslinked polyamide films for water purification

June 24, 2012
Author(s)
Peter M. Johnson, Edwin Chan, Jun Y. Chung, Junghyun Lee, Christopher Stafford
Reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) membranes are comprised of a dense active layer supported by a porous support. Commercial active layer are highly crosslinked polyamides that are formed through interfacial polymerization directly on the support

Elastic and Viscoelastic Properties of Calcium Silicate Hydrate

May 15, 2012
Author(s)
Zachary Grasley, Jones Christopher, X Li, Edward Garboczi, Jeffrey W. Bullard
In order to effectively predict the mechanical properties of concrete and other cementitious materials, it is useful to understand the properties and deformation mechanisms on the nano-metric length scale. Through a combined analytical, experimental, and

Materials Challenges in Carbon Mitigation Technologies

April 24, 2012
Author(s)
Laura Espinal, Bryan D. Morreale
Thermochemical conversion of fossil fuels currently dominates the national and global energy portfolio, with the most notable being the stationary power production and transportation vehicles sectors. As global energy demand continues to increase

Time dependent CO2 sorption hysteresis in a one-dimensional microporous octahedral molecular sieve

April 6, 2012
Author(s)
Laura Espinal, Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Andrew J. Allen, Daniel W. Siderius, Chad R. Snyder, Eric J. Cockayne, Lan (. Li, James A. Kaduk, Anais E. Espinal, Steven L. Suib, Chun Chiu
A critical challenge in the development of novel carbon capture materials with engineered porous architectures is to understand and control the phenomenon of sorption hysteresis, whereby the path to adsorption of gas molecules by the porous host differs

Ultra-small-Angle X-ray Scattering - X-ray Photon-Correlation Spectroscopy Studies of Incipient Structural Changes in Amorphous Calcium Phosphate Based Dental Composites

February 28, 2012
Author(s)
Fan Zhang, Andrew Allen, Lyle E. Levine, Laura Espinal, Joseph M. Antonucci, Drago Skrtic, Justin N. O'Donnell, Jan Ilavsky
The local structural changes in amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) based dental composites were studied upon heating using both static, bulk measurement techniques and recently developed ultra-small angle X-ray scattering - X-ray photon correlation

Rippling Instability of Supported Polymer Nanolines

February 21, 2012
Author(s)
Vijaya R. Tirumala, Christopher M. Stafford, Leonidas E. Ocola, Jack F. Douglas, L. Mahadevan
The swelling response of polymer line gratings supported on a rigid substrate has direct implications on their mechanical stability during pattern transfer in nanofabrication. The polymer lines, when swollen in a good solvent, undergo a rippling

Quantification of ligand packing density on gold nanoparticles using ICP-OES

February 18, 2012
Author(s)
Sherrie R. Elzey, De-Hao D. Tsai, Savelas A. Rabb, Lee L. Yu, Michael R. Winchester, Vincent A. Hackley
In this study, a prototypical thiolated organic ligand, 3-mercaptopropionic acid (MPA), was conjugated on gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), and packing density was measured on an ensemble-averaged basis using inductively coupled plasma optical emission

Nanomechanical properties of polyethylene glycol brushes on gold substrates

February 15, 2012
Author(s)
Gheorghe NMN Stan, Frank W. DelRio, Robert I. MacCuspie, Robert F. Cook
Brushes of polyethylene glycol (PEG) were directly anchored onto bare gold substrates in solution. The nucleation kinetics of PEG binding were investigated successively in solution and dry air using atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging. In addition, force

Mechanical Properties of Polymer Nano-Films

November 28, 2011
Author(s)
Junghyun Lee, Jun Y. Chung, Christopher Stafford
Three fundamental mechanical properties of supported glassy polystyrene films with thickness ranging from 250 nm to 9 nm were quantitatively determined by a recently developed wrinkling-cracking method. Films below about 40 nm showed a decrease in both

Deformation and fracture of single-crystal silicon theta-like specimens

October 28, 2011
Author(s)
Michael S. Gaither, Frank W. DelRio, Richard S. Gates, Robert F. Cook
Miniaturized test specimens of single-crystal silicon, fabricated by lithography and deep reactive ion etching (DRIE), were used to measure deformation and fracture properties at the micro scale. Two specimen geometries, both in the form of a Greek letter

In Search of Enhanced Electrolyte Materials: A Case Study of Doubly Doped Ceria

October 28, 2011
Author(s)
Pratik Dholabhai, James B. Adams, Peter A. Crozier, Renu Sharma
Various compositions of gadolinium-praseodymium doubly doped ceria (GPDC) have been studied to appreciate the effect of two co-dopants in enhancing the ionic conductivity. A Kinetic Lattice Monte Carlo (KLMC) model of vacancy diffusion in GPDC has been

High Frequency Characterization of Contact Resistance and Conductivity of Platinum Nanowires*

October 1, 2011
Author(s)
Kichul Kim, Paul Rice, Thomas M. Wallis, Dazhen Gu, SangHyun S. Lim, Atif A. Imtiaz, Pavel Kabos, Dejan Filipovic
Abstract— Individual platinum (Pt) nanowires (NWs) with 100 nm and 250 nm diameters, embedded in coplanar waveguide (CPW) structures are investigated. Three approaches for characterization of their contact resistance and conductivity at high frequencies

Electrical Characterization of Photoconductive GaN Nanowire Devices from 50 MHz to 33 GHz

July 1, 2011
Author(s)
Thomas M. Wallis, Dazhen Gu, Atif A. Imtiaz, Pavel Kabos, Paul T. Blanchard, Norman A. Sanford, Kristine A. Bertness, Christpher Smith
The electrical response of two-port., photoconductive GaN nanowire devices was measured from 50 MHz to 33 GHz. The admittance of individual contacted nanowires showed an increase on the order of 10% throughout the measured frequency range after exposure to
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