Advanced Materials & Manufacturing – Page 615

Biologically Inspired Controls over Assembly of Crystalline Nanostructures

De Yoreo J.J., Orme C.A., Qiu R., Dove P.M., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US

By utilizing small molecules and proteins to modulate crystal nucleation and growth, living organisms produce single nanocrystals and nanocrystal composites that exhibit control over the location, phase and crystallographic orientation of the nuclei, as well [...]

DNA base damage: A Car-Parrinello Molecular Dynamics Study of Guanine and Thymine with an OH Radical

Wu Y., Mundy C.J., Colvin M.E., Car R., Lawrence Livermore National Labs, US

Understanding the basic chemistry of radicals and DNA bases is an important step in characterizing the potential damage to DNA. The chemical level understanding of such damage has far reaching implications for radiation therapy, health [...]

Electrohydrodynamic Interactions of an AFM Tip and a Biological Membrane

Fan T.H., Fedorov A.G., Georgia Institute of Technology, US

In biological applications, AFM imaging needs to be performed in the natural (aqueous) living environment of the cell in order to observe molecular level interactions and biochemical processes in-situ in the electrolyte solution and to [...]

Bio Nano Systems and Chemistry

Nanoscale Activated Field on Cermic Electret In Pseudobiological Environment

Nakamura S., Ueshima M., Kobayashi T., Yamashita K., Tokyo Medical and Dental University, JP

A pseudo-biological environment using simulated body fluid (SBF) has been widely accepted as an osteobonding estimation of biomaterial surfaces. In the present study, the interactions at the interface of the polarized HA surface and the [...]

High Resolution Compton Imaging of Nanostructures

Wang J., Kim K., UMass Dartmouth, US

We describe a novel and unique imaging technique based on Compton scattering, a fundamentally different physical process than those based on photo-absorption techniques (such as XPS and its variants UPS/SRPS). This is unique since it [...]

Growth of InAs Quantum Dots Using the Strained Superlattices and Their Optical Properties

Leem J-Y, Choi H-K, Jeon M.H., Lee J.W., Leem J-Y, Cho G.S., Choi H-K, Department of Optical Engineering, KR

we have studied the growth of self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) using Stranski-Krastanow growth mode and strain-reducing layers for long-wavelength applications with narrow linewidth in photoluminescence (PL) emission. InAs QDs were grown on the strained superlattices, [...]

Bio-inspired Integrated Circuits for Signal Perception and Processing

Abdel-Aty-Zohdy H.S., Ewing R.L., Oakland University, US

Bio-inspired systems utilizing neural networks and genetic algorithms are presented in this paper for pattern discovery, identification, classification, and optimum choices for Signal Perception and Processing (SPP). Sample applications are presented for: (I) Integrated Intelligent [...]

Magnetic Antidot Arrays with a Storage Density of 10 Gbits/cm2

Xiao Z.L., Han C.Y., Welp U., Wang H.H., Willing G.A., Vlasko-Vlasov V.K., Kwok W.K., Miller D.J., Hiller J.M., Cook R.E., Crabtree G.W., Argonne National Laboratory, US

Large area nickel antidot arrays with density up to 10^10 /cm^2 have been fabricated by depositing nickel onto anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membranes that contain lattices of nanopores. Electron microscopy images show a high degree [...]

Low Temperature Electronic Properties of Electrospun PAN-Derived Carbon Nanofiber

Wang Y., Santiago-Aviles J.J., University of Pennsylvania, US

The possible sensor application of carbon nanofibers relies on the nanofibers electronic transport. This paper fabricated carbon nanofibers using electrostatic deposition and vacuum pyrolysis techniques. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and scanning probe microscopes (SPM) images [...]