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Flexible and Turnable Biomimetic Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex (PDC) Supercapacitors

Thornton J., Christelle C., Chen E.T., Advanced Biomimetic Sensors, Inc., US

Flexible supercapacitors are challenged by low energy density and short discharge time. We report a new type of biomimetic pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (BIMPDC) supercapacitors having the self-assembling membrane (SAM) offer orders of magnitude higher in [...]

Carbon Combustion Synthesis of Lithium Cobaltate

Hobosyan M., Mamyrbaeva Y., Martirosyan K.S., University of Texas at Brownsville, US

We recently developed a novel process Carbon Combustion Synthesis of Oxides (CCSO) to rapidly produce high purity, submicron, porous powders of complex oxides. The crystalline LiCoO2 nanoparticles were synthesized by carbon combustion synthesis, and characterized [...]

Synthesis and characterization of Al-Al2O3/PVDF core-shell nanodieletrics for energy storage

Badi N., Mekala R., University of Houston, US

Extensive interest is being invested into the research of polymer based nanodielectric films. Such a material provides a more practical energy storage solution primarily for embedded capacitors and can be extended for discrete capacitor devices. [...]

Learning from an Informatics Approach Applied to Materials Design

Poleski J., Krein M., Barto R., Lockheed Martin, US

Nanomaterials will significantly impact commercial and military applications when context and understanding of their vast design and property space is achieved. Identifying the design parameters of important materials is one of the first steps in [...]

High Throughput Screening of Nanomaterials: The Arkansas Research Consortium in Nanotoxicity, a partnership between Arkansas and the FDA

Howard P.C., Biris A.S., Salamo G.J., Zharov V.P., Buchanan R.A., Arkansas Research Alliance, US

The state of Arkansas and the FDA Center of Toxicological Research have begun a collaborative effort to develop techniques for high-throughput, rapid screening of existing and yet-to-be developed nanomaterials. To accomplish this the Arkansas Research [...]

Advancement of the GoodNanoGuide: A compendium of best practices for the global nanotechnology community

Sreniawski M.J., Harper B.J., Harper S.L., Harper B.J., Harper S.L., Oregon State University, US

The GoodNanoGuide project is an internet-based wiki that was conceived to meet the needs of global nanotechnology stakeholders (Kulinowski and Jaffe, 2009). The GoodNanoGuide was designed to facilitate translation of disparate nanoEHS research into practical [...]

Practical Data Sharing: The Nanomaterial Registry

Ostraat M.L., Murry D., Mills K.C., Guzan K.A., RTI International, US

The Nanomaterial Registry provides an authoritative, central location for nanomaterial data sharing in order to accelerate nanomaterial innovations as well as discoveries around nanomaterial biological and environmental implications. The National Nanotechnology Initiative on the Nanotechnology [...]

Opto-Electrical Study of Spectrally Enhanced Thin Film Solar Devices

Hajimirza S., Howell J.R., The University of Texas at Austin, US

We report optical and electrical study of a light trapping for efficiency enhancement in thin film amorphous silicon. Solar absorption can be improved inside thin films via surface texturing, plasmonic excitations and thin anti-reflecting coating. [...]

Molecular dynamics simulation of the transport of H2, O2, Ar, CH4 and n-C4H10 in composite poly (4-methyl-2-pentyne) and nanoparticle of cristobalite silica and faujasite silica

Yang Q., Achenie L.E., Virginia Tech, US

In industrial processes membranes made of composite polymer material are widely employed to separate gas mixtures. These membranes have better performance than membranes consisting of polymer alone. To understand the mechanism and therefore aid membrane [...]

Anti-Crossing Levels and Electron Tunneling in Quantum Rings

Filikhin I., Matinyan S.G., Nimmo J., Vlahovic B., North Carolina Central University, US

Quantum Rings (QR) attracted attention during the last decade because of remarkable meso and nano-structures, due to non-simple connected topology. In our work [3] it was shown that in the weakly coupled double concentric quantum [...]