University of California Davis – TechConnect Briefs

High-Yield Chemical Conversion of Biomass into Biofuels and Value-Added Products

Mascal M., Nikitin E.B., University of California Davis, US

We have developed a new method to efficiently convert waste biomass (agricultural, municipal forestry) into biofuels and value-added products. The process is completely chemical in nature, inexpensive, and produces no waste stream. The derived products [...]

High-Yield Chemical Conversion of Biomass into Biofuels and Value-Added Products

Mascal M., Nikitin E.B., University of California Davis, US

We have developed a new method to efficiently convert waste biomass (agricultural, municipal forestry) into biofuels and value-added products. The process is completely chemical in nature, inexpensive, and produces no waste stream. The derived products [...]

Gold Nanoparticle Super Assembly by Dielectrophoresis

Gierhart B.C., Collins S.D., Howitt D.G., Chen S.J., Smith R.L., University of California Davis, US

Dielectrophoretic assembly of nanoparticles has great utility in creating intricate designer nanoscale structures. Despite their utility, little is known about the mechanisms that govern different assembly morphologies. The magnitude and frequency of the applied field, [...]

Integrating 1D Nanostructures in Devices and Circuits for Massively Parallel and Manufacturable Nanoscale Electronics and Photonics

Saif Islam M., Choudhry A., Fong E., University of California Davis, US

A key barrier to wide-scale integration of functional nanowires in devices and systems is the difficulty in forming reproducible and efficient contacts to them. Unlike the research-based approach of sequentially connecting electrodes to individual nanowires [...]

Mimicking Immune Processes by Positioning Antibodies on Surfaces — A Nanoengineering Approach

Liu G-y., Liu M., Amro N., Komanicky V., Liu G-y., Liu M., University of California Davis, US

Antibody-antigen interaction is one of the most fundamental biospecific interactions. While the antibody-antigen monovalent and divalent bindings are relatively well-known in solution phase, controlling the valency on surfaces has not been attempted. Using scanning probe [...]

New Numerical Techniques and Tools in SUGAR for 3D MEMS Simulation

Bai Z., Bindel D., Clark J., Demmel J., Pister K., Zhou N., University of California Davis, US

SUGAR is a modified nodal analysis package for 3D MEMS simulations that owes its heritage and its name to the SPICE family of circuit simulation. SUGAR has undergone the stage of proof-of-concept which showed that [...]