Advanced Materials & Manufacturing – Page 580

Antimicrobial Fabrics Coated with Nano-Sized Silver Salt Crystals

Tessier D., Radu I., Filteau M., Center for Textile Technologies, CA

Antimicrobial fabrics find many technical applications in medical, hygiene, protection, sport, and industrial markets. However, antimicrobial fabrics differ in biocidal performance and durability. For example, such fabrics are used in wound dressings or bio-hazard protective [...]

Recent Applications of Mesoscale Modeling to Nanotechnology and Drug Delivery

Maiti A., Wescott J., Kung P., Goldbeck-Wood G., Accelrys Inc., US

Technologically important nanomaterials come in all shapes and sizes. They can range from small molecules to complex composites and mixtures. Depending upon the spatial dimensions of the system and properties under investigation, computer modeling of [...]

Control Synthesis of Functional Nanoassemblies using Langmuir-Blodgett Method

Wang H.-L., Tang Z., Gao Y., Magyar R.J., Tretiak S., Shreve A.P., Los Alamos National Laboratory, US

We strive to design syntheses of a series of amphiphilic molecular building blocks that can self-assembled at the air-water interface to form 2D and 3D nanostructures with specific opto-electronic properties. Compression of these molecular building [...]

Nanostructured Fluids, Soft Materials, and Self Assembly

Bioinspired Miniaturization – Stretching Information from Coherence to Dissipation for Nano-to-Micro Integrated Intelligent Systems

Santoli S., International Nanobiological Testbed Ltd., IT

From previous results attained on the basis of thermodynamics, statistical physics and nanobiology it is shown that Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts and their hard-wired implementations cannot satisfy the physical conditions for mimicking biological intelligence and [...]

Johnson-Kendall-Roberts Theory Applied to Living Cells

Chu Y-S, Dufour S., Thiery J.-P., Perez E., Pincet F., Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'ENS, FR

Cell adhesion is involved in a number of biological processes ranging from transport to the defenses of organisms. A quantitative understanding of the adhesion of cells is not often possible owing to their complexity in [...]

Ion Channel Simulations by the TR-PNP Model and the Excess Chemical Potential Approach

Hu S., Hess K., Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US

We describe a new method referred to as TR-PNP model to study general types of nanostructure ion channels. Our method extends the common continuum methods to include particle like properties, such as the ion trapping [...]

Systems Biology Conceptual Modeling by Means of Discrete-event Simulation (DNA-RNA-Protein)

Yeol J.W., Barjis I., Barjis J., Barjis I., Barjis J., Berri S., Ryu Y., Polytechnic University, US

In this paper discrete-event simulation modeling technique is used to model and simulate biological processes. In particular, we study application of discrete-event simulation to model processes taking place in Glycolosis and capture dynamic behavior of [...]

A Multi-scale, Integrative Model of Cellular Electrophysiological Response Incorporating Intra/Extra-cellular Transport & Dynamics

Feng J.J., Krishnamoorthy S., Sundaram S., CFD Research Corporation, US

Spurred by the growing confluence of nano and bio technologies, several novel micro/nano platforms (see for example, whole cell patch clamp devices [1]) are emerging for the high-throughput and/or high-fidelity study of the electrophysiological response [...]

Application of Grid Focusing Methodology to Transport Monte Carlo Model for Ion Channel Simulations

Kathawala G.A., van der Straaten T., Ravaioli U., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US

Simulation of Ion Channels has long been an outstanding research problem in the biophysical community. Our transport Monte Carlo model BioMOCA is a particle based approach where we treat water implicitly. It has been used [...]