Advanced Materials & Manufacturing – Page 71

Effect of Graphitic Filler Characteristics on the Percolation Behavior and Electrical Conductivity of Segregated Network Polymer Composites

Prystaj L., Lucas E.A., Alston K., Gerhardt R.A., Georgia Institute of Technology, US

Polymer composites can be used for applications such as electromagnetic shielding devices, self-regulating heaters, over temperature protection structures, temperature sensors, devices that can control and regulate the flow of electrical current as well as antistatic [...]

Composite Materials

Emerging Trends Based on Calix Protected Metal Nanoparticles

Jain V.K., Gujarat University, IN

Nanoparticles are of extreme interest because of the new properties (such as chemical reactivity and optical behavior) they exhibit compared with larger particles. These new properties are again taken to a better level when they [...]

Aluminum Nanocomposite Materials for Propellant Applications

Chung S.W., Buckner S.W., Jelliss P.A., Place G.J., Laktas J.M., nanoMetallix, US

Aluminum has high applicability in terms of energy release with one of the highest combustion enthalpies of all reactive metals. Thus, the use of aluminum complexes and nanomaterials has been widely researched to develop fuel [...]

Controlling the Active Center of Gold Nanoreactors by Mediating the Metal-Polymer Interaction

Shah V., Malardier-Jugroot C., Jugroot M., Malardier-Jugroot C., Royal Military College of Canada, CA

Nanomaterials have gained large interest from the scientific community due to the fact that materials at nanoscale exhibit unique electronic, magnetic and optical properties when compared to the bulk. The main advantage associated with nanostructures [...]

Novel Materials for the Desensitizing and Remineralizing Dentifrices

Sereda G., Rashwan K., Karels B., Fritza A., University of South Dakota, US

Modification of the titania surface with organic and inorganic groups can significantly improve the practical potential of this material as a component of toothpastes. Functionalization of titania and silica nanoparticles improves their adhesion to human [...]

Synthesis and characterization of magneto-fluorescent nanoparticles with excited-state intramolecular proton transfer

Oliveira E.M.N., Coelho F.L., Campo L.F., Zanini M.L., Papaléo R.M., Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, BR

Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPION) coated with different shells are hybrid materials that can be used in biomedical imaging, due its excellent biocompatibility and biodistribution in tissue. Different dyes have been attached to the nanoparticles [...]

Peptide Functionalized Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Inhibit Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) In Vitro

Baganizi D.R., Bawage S., Singh A., Singh S.R., Tiwari P., Dennis V.A., Singh A., Singh S.R., Alabama State University, US

Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of severe upper and lower respiratory tract infections in infants, and in high-risk adults. Currently, there is no vaccine and the available therapeutic agents have limited [...]

Optimization of synthesis conditions to prepare desired shell thickness of superparamagnetic MgFe2O4@SiO2 core-shell nanosphere for biomedical applications

Das H., Debnath N., Arai T., Sakamoto N., Shinozaki K., Suzuki H., Wakiya N., Shizuoka University, JP

We have described here a simple way for the fabrication of superparamagnetic MgFe2O4@SiO2 core-shell spherical nanoparticles with controlled shell thickness. First, core MgFe2O4 dense nano-spheres were directly synthesized by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis (USP) technique from [...]

Controlled Synthesis of Near IR Emitting Metal Chalcogenide Quantum Dots for the Opto-electronic Applications

Hocaoglu I., Eral Dogan L., Dagtepe P., Kuantag Nanotechnologies Development and Production Inc., TR

Studies on the synthesis of Near IR emitting Quantum Dots have increased due to their potential in fiber optic communication systems, in photovoltaic cells, in NIR detectors-cameras, in biological applications including in vitro and in [...]