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Synthetic vector based gene delivery continues to gain strength as viable alternatives to viral vectors due to safety and other concerns. DNA release dynamics is key to the understanding and control of gene delivery from nano-systems. Here we describe
Justin M. Gorham, Robert I. MacCuspie, Kate L. Klein, D H. Fairbrother, Richard D. Holbrook
Due to the increasing use of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in consumer products, it is essential to understand how variables, such as light exposure, may change the physical and chemical characteristics of AgNP suspensions. To this end, the effect of 300 nm
Simona Bancos, De-Hao D. Tsai, Vincent A. Hackley, J L. Weaver, Katherine M. Tyner
Nanoparticles (NPs) are known to interfere with many high throughput cell viability and cell proliferation assays, which complicates the assessment of their potential toxic effects. The aim of this study was to compare viability and proliferation results
Yong Sik Kim, Jae M. Yoo, Seung Ho Yang, Young M. Choi, Nicholas G. Dagalakis, Satyandra K. Gupta
In micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) it is difficult to obtain large range of motion with small coupled error. This limitation was overcome by designing and fabricating a nested structure as a serial kinematic mechanism (SKM). In this paper, a MEMS
Elijah J. Petersen, Xiaomin X. Tu, M Miral Dizdar, Ming Zheng, Bryant C. Nelson
Ultrasonication is a physical process known to generate abundant levels of oxygen-derived species such as hydroxyl radicals, hydrogen atoms, and hydrogen peroxide. Highly reactive hydroxyl radicals can react with DNA to generate strand breaks and a
Tinh Nguyen, Bastien T. Pellegrin, Coralie Bernard, Savelas A. Rabb, Paul E. Stutzman, Justin M. Gorham, Xiaohong Gu, Lee L. Yu, Joannie W. Chin
Nanofillers are increasingly used for enhancing multiple properties of polymeric materials in many applications. However, polymers are susceptible to photodegradation by solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation Therefore, nanofillers in a polymer nanocomposite
Michael W. Stewart, Angela Bielefeldt, Elisabeth Mansfield, R. Scott Summers, Joseph N. Ryan
A quartz crystal microbalance was used to determine the effects of different water quality parameters on the desorption of silver nanoparticles from surfaces representative of ceramic water filters (CWFs). Silver nanoparticles stabilized with 25-30% casein
Report summarizes study whose purpose was to optimize and validate a standardized and reproducible approach for the preparation of TiO2 nanoparticle dispersions in relevant biological and environmental test media, using an industrially relevant powder form
The scanning electron microscope (SEM) has gone through a tremendous evolution to become a critical tool for many, diverse scientific and industrial applications. The high resolution of the SEM is especially useful for qualitative and quantitative
John H. Lehman, C J. Chunnilall, Evangelos Theocharous, Aric W. Sanders
We present the absolute infrared (5 μm to 50 μm) reflectance of films produced from commercially available carbon nanotubes. Data were obtained using the upgraded NPL directional- hemispherical reflectance measurement facility. A brief description of this
Joseph L. Tedesco, Laurie Stephey, Madelaine H. Hernandez, Curt A. Richter, Nadine Gergel-Hackett
Memristors are emerging as unique electrical devices with potential applications in memory, reconfigurable logic, and biologically-inspired computing. Due to the novelty of these devices, the complete details of their switching mechanism are not yet well
Testing standards are more fundamental from a metrological perspective and less controversial from an industrial perspective than product standards, representing a path of less resistance towards the standardization and commercialization of lab on a chip
Justin M. Gorham, Tinh Nguyen, Coralie Bernard, Deborah S. Jacobs, Richard D. Holbrook
The physicochemical, UV-induced surface modifications to silica nanoparticle (SiNP) - epoxy composites have been investigated. The silica nanocomposites (SiNCs) were prepared using a two-part epoxy system with 10 % mass fraction of SiNPs and exposed to
Konrad Rykaczewski, William A. Osborn, Jeff Chinn, Marlon L. Walker, John H. Scott, Wanda Jones, Chonglei Hao, Shuhuai Yao, Zuankai Wang
Surfaces which evince superhydrophobic properties during water condensation have a potential to dramatically enhance energy efficiency in power generation and desalination systems. Although various such surfaces have been reported, their development has
Mohammad Olfatnia, Siddharth Sood, Jason J. Gorman, Shorya Awtar
This paper reports in-plane electrostatic comb-drive actuators with stroke as large as 245 µm, achieved by employing a novel Clamped Paired Double Parallelogram (C-DP-DP) flexure mechanism. For a given flexure beam length (L1), comb gap (G), and actuation
Determining the effects of various surface coatings on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is critical given the numerous expected applications of CNTs and their inevitable release into ecosystems. To explore the potential ecotoxicological effects of CNT surface
Bradley N. Damazo, Ravikiran Attota, Premsagar P. Kavuri, Andras Vladar
A novel through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM) method that yields nanoscale information from optical images obtained at multiple focal planes will be used here for nanoparticle dimensional analysis. The TSOM method can distinguish not only size