Topic: Sustainable Materials
Self-Assembled Soft Nanomaterials from Renewable Resources
The self-assembly of low molecular weight building blocks into nanoscale molecular objects has recently attracted considerable interest in terms of the bottom-up fabrication of nanomaterials. The building blocks currently used in supramolecular chemistry are synthesized [...]
Heat is the Enemy of Energy Efficiency
The flow of heat has been a major challenge to engineers for centuries. A new nanotech material, developed by TAG technologies, can block the flow of heat from one direction only. This presentation will present [...]
Building Green with Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the molecular scale, is opening new possibilities in green building through products like solar energy collecting paints, nanogel high-insulating translucent panels, and heat-absorbing windows. Even more dramatic breakthroughs are [...]
Nano-structures materials for Energy Direct Conversion and Fuel Breeding
The new developments in nano-structures and high-energy superconductors open the road for better nuclear energy. A new family of new nuclear fuels as well as energy harvesting blankets to be used as active shielding in [...]
Solar-Blind Dual-Band UV/IR Photodetectors Integrated on a Single Chip
Currently used flame detectors that are composed of discrete UV and IR solid-state components are bulky, sustain temperatures only below 125°C, and are not capable of detecting a multi-band optical signal with high spatial resolution. [...]
Novel FD SOI Devices Structure for Low Standby Power Applications
In this paper, fully depleted (FD) SOI devices with S/D extension shift and high-k offset spacer were investigated in detail. The results show that the S/D extension shift can decrease Ioff significantly to reduce standby [...]
Growth and Some Enzymatic Responses of E. coli to Photocatalytic TiO2
The effects of photocatalytic nano-TiO2 on the survival or die-off of E. coli (e.g. TK2) were investigated under ambient conditions. Experimentally, a 28-h E. coli culture was exposed to photocatalytic nano-TiO2 at various concentrations, e.g., [...]
Sorption of Ethylbenzene, Toluene and Xylene onto Crumb Rubber from Aqueous Solutions
Crumb rubber is composed of a complex mixture of elastomers (polyisoprene, polybutadiene and styrene-butadiene) and carbon black, as reinforcing agent, among other compounds. The contents of carbon black and the presence of the elastomeric matrix [...]