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Pooneh Taghizadeh-Saheli, R. K. Rowe, Elijah Petersen, Denis O'Carroll
The new applications for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in various fields and consequently the increase in their production volume have increased their potential release to the environment. Landfills are one of the major locations where carbon nanotubes are
Thomas J. Silva, Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw, Emrah Turgut, Dmitriy Zusin, Dominik Legut, Karel Carva, Ronny Knut, Cong Chen, Zhensheng Tao, Stefan Mathias, Martin Aeschlimann, Peter Oppeneer, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane, Patrik Grychtol
Understanding how the electronic band structure of a ferromagnetic material is modified during laser-induced demagnetization on femtosecond timescales has been a long-standing question in condensed matter physics. Here, we use ultrafast high harmonics to
Norman A. Sanford, Paul T. Blanchard, Ryan M. White, Michael R. Vissers, Albert Davydov, D R. Diercks, David P. Pappas
Laser-assisted atom probe tomography (L-APT) was used to examine superconducting TiN/Ti/TiN trilayer films with nominal respective thicknesses of 5/5/5 (nm). The trilayers were deposited on Si substrates by reactive sputtering. Electron energy loss
Arkadiusz C. Lewandowski, Wojciech Wiatr, Dazhen Gu, Nate Orloff, Thomas Mitchell (Mitch) Wallis, Pavel Kabos
We present the application of our newly developed multi-reflect-thru technique to vector-network-analyzer calibration in the on-wafer environment. This technique uses a set of highly-reflective one-port devices, referred to as offset-reflects, and a single
Anne A. Galyean, James J. Filliben, Richard D. Holbrook, Wyatt N. Vreeland, Howard S. Weinberg
Asymmetric flow field flow fractionation (AF4) has several instrumental factors that may have a direct effect on separation performance. A sensitivity analysis was applied to ascertain the relative importance of AF4 primary instrument factor settings for
The characterization of manufactured nanoparticles (MNPs) in environmental samples is necessary to assess their behavior, fate and potential toxicity. Several techniques are available, but the limit of detection (LOD) is often too high for environmentally
Bojan R. Ilic, Krishna Coimbatore Balram, Daron A. Westly, Marcelo I. Davanco, Karen E. Grutter, Qing Li, Thomas Michels, Christopher H. Ray, Liya Yu, Neal A. Bertrand, Samuel M. Stavis, Vladimir A. Aksyuk, James A. Liddle, Brian A. Bryce, Nicolae Lobontiu, Yuxiang Liu, Meredith Metzler, Gerald Lopez, David Czaplewski, Leonidas Ocola, Pavel Neuzil, Vojtech Svatos, Slava Krylov, Christopher B. Wallin, Ian J. Gilbert, Kristen A. Dill, Richard J. Kasica, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Gregory Simelgor, Juraj Topolancik
Jeffrey W. Gilman, Douglas M. Fox, Jeremiah W. Woodcock
Ionic liquids, and the novel cations and anions which they are comprised of, have been used to modify the properties of many classes of materials. This includes their use as co-solvents and co‑catalysts in simple chemical reactions. However, ionic liquid
Rebecca C. Quardokus, Vinod K. Tewary, Frank W. DelRio
Engineering two-dimensional materials through surface-confined synthetic techniques is a promising avenue for designing new materials with tailored properties. Developing and understanding methods for surface-confined synthesis of two-dimensional materials
Cherno Jaye, Tobias Weidner, J. E. Baio, A. P. Hitchcock, Daniel Fischer
It is shown that the self-assembly of diamagnetic molecule sub-monolayers on a surface can be influenced by magnetic stray field landscapes emerging from artificially fabricated magnetic domains and domain walls. The directed local chemisorption of
Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) are used extensively in research and advanced manufacturing for materials characterization, metrology and process control. Unfortunately, noise can limit the specimen-specific detail and information that can be acquired
To probe the transformation pathways of metallic nanomaterials, measurement tools capable of detecting and characterizing the broad distribution of products with limited perturbation is ideal. Thus, we employed a suite of in situ measurements (single
We present an on-chip cavity optomechanical cantilever array with integrated actuation, that combines high measurement bandwidth and very low displacement noise floor with compactness, robustness, small size, and potential for low cost batch fabrication
Aaron Aziz, Joseph Wahlquist, Aaron Sollner, Virginia L. Ferguson, Frank W. DelRio, Stephanie Bryant
Multi-layer hydrogels formed from crosslinked poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) have shown promise for applications in tissue engineering ranging from vasculature to musculoskeletal tissues. The objective of this work was to characterize the interface resulting
Jan Obrzut, Caglar Dogu Emiroglu, Beatriz A. Pazmino, Jack F. Douglas, Jeffrey W. Gilman
Dielectric permittivity of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) films was determined using a non-contact resonant cavity perturbation method at 7.3 GHz in quantitative correlation with moisture content. The resonant microwave cavity measurement is sensitive to
Bryant C. Nelson, Sanem Hosbas Coskun, Chuanxin Ma, Hong Li, Huiyuan Guo, Craig Musante, Jason C. White, Baoshan Xing, Om P. Dhankher
Metal-based nanoparticles (NPs) can cause toxicity to terrestrial plants, however there is little understanding of plant defense mechanisms that may counteract nanotoxicity. In the present study, we investigated the defense mechanisms of Arabidopsis
Bryant C. Nelson, Christa W. Wright, Yuko Ibuki, Maria Moreno-Villanueva, Hanna L. Karlsson, Giel Hendriks, Christopher M. Sims, Neenu Singh, Shareen H. Doak
The rapid development of the engineered nanomaterial (ENM) manufacturing industry has accelerated the incorporation of ENMs into a wide variety of consumer products across the globe. Unintentionally or not, some of these ENMs may be introduced into the
Stacey M. Louie, Justin M. Gorham, Eric A. McGivney, Jingyu Liu, Kelvin B. Gregory, Vincent A. Hackley
Photochemical reactions can result in significant transformations of manufactured nanomaterials in sunlit environments. While transformations of inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) have been investigated extensively, much less attention has been focused on the
Shannon Hanna, Gregory A. Cooksey, Bryant C. Nelson, John T. Elliott, Elijah J. Petersen
Increasing production and usage of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) has generated widespread interest in measuring their environmental and human health effects. However, the lack of standardized methods for these measurements has often led to contradictory
Monique E. Johnson, Antonio R. Montoro Bustos, Michael R. Winchester
The suitability of rate zonal density sucrose gradient centrifugation separation is explored for the purification/separation of three gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) mixtures (Mixture 1: 30 nm, 60 nm, and 100 nm; Mixture 2: 20 nm, 50 nm, and 100 nm; Mixture 3
Ratan K. Debnath, MD R. Hasan, Arunima Singh, Vladimir P. Oleshko, Shiqi Guo, Asha Rani, Abhishek Motayed, Nhan V. Nguyen, Albert Davydov
The need for low-cost high-performance broadband photon detection with sensitivity in the near infrared (NIR) has driven interest in new materials that combine high absorption with traditional electronic infrastructure (CMOS) compatibility. Here, we
Houxun Miao, Lei Chen, Mona Mirzaeimoghri, Richard Kasica, Han Wen
The cryogenic process and Bosch process are two widely used processes for reactive ion etching of high aspect ratio silicon structures. This paper focuses on the cryogenic deep etching of 400.0 nm pitch silicon gratings. By creating a metal hard mask on
Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, John S. Villarrubia
Linewidth measurements from secondary electron (SE) images were compared to those from backscattered electron (BSE) and low-loss electron (LLE) images. With the commonly used 50 % threshold criterion, the lines appeared larger in the SE images. Since the
Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Ryan M. White, Jason D. Holm, Elisabeth Mansfield
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) play a significant role in the nascent nanotechnology industry, due to their remarkable combination of mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties. These materials are specialty additives, reinforcing a diverse
Alexander Yulaev, Alec Talin, Leite Marina, Andrei Kolmakov
We report spatially- and depth-resolved study of Li intercalation into a thin-film solid electrolyte applying a combination of optical and electron microscopy. Due to difference in electron yield from pristine and lithiated LiPON regions, the Li transport