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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Nano-materials"”.
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Nano-Materials By Design and Their Applications in Infrastructure
For utilizing nano materials in infrastructure applications, they should exist in huge quantities, in low cost, and they should be applied efficiently to achieve the ultimate goal design, based on fundamental mechanical and physical laws. To achieve this goal multiscale characterization and …
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Computational analysis of thermodynamic and mechanical properties of nano-materials
Current research in nano-technology has led to advances in design and fabrication of nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS). The design, optimization and fabrication of NEMS for various applications can be accelerated by developing accurate physical theories, and computational design tools to …
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Nano-materials for novel magneto-rheological liquids and nano-fluids
Introduction: Nanotechnology, in its many forms, has evolved as a forefront of the global scientific and technological frontier. Materials once disregarded as very small dust or particulate impurities twenty years ago, are today, the focus of intensely popularized investigation. New materials have …
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Quantum and atomistic simulation of mechanical and electronic properties of nano-materials
In our modern scientific society, many new nano-materials are emerging that exhibit outstanding properties, and researchers claim that they have great potential to replace conventional mechanical and electronic devices. It is important to provide comprehensive understanding of these new materials …
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In-situ Scanning Electron Microscopy for Electron-beam Lithography and In-situ One Dimensional Nano Materials Characterization
… lithography (EBL) and in-situ one dimensional nano materials electrical characterization. A precise voltage contrast image positioning for in-situ EBL to integrate nanowires into suspended structures for nanoswitch fabrication has been developed. The in-situ EBL eliminates the stage movement …
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Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Nano-Material Toxicity
Increasing applications of nano materials in medicine, construction, textiles, computers, and other consumer goods have lead to increasing concerns of their effect on human health and ecology during synthesis, manufacturing, use, and disposal of nano-materials. Though much scientific progress has …
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Nanomaterials Self-Assembly Driven by Beta-Amyloid Peptides
Nanomaterials such as gold nanowires and gold nanoparticles were self-assembled with several peptides derived from betaamyloid peptide. The peptides propensity to form fibrilar structures was exploited. The products obtained by aggregation of the peptides with the nano materials were studied using …
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Electronic and Optical Properties of Silicon Based Semiconductors With Reduced Dimension: A Theoretical Study
… formulas are successfully applied to the studied materials. Moreover, the methods can be used to study other nano-materials.
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Iterative Learning Control for Precision Motion Control of Microscale and Nanoscale Tracking Systems
… trajectories suitable for rapid microscale and nanoscale manufacturing, assembly, or scanning. They are also useful for applications where disturbance signals may change rapidly such as in micro- and nano-materials testing. The time-frequency ILC is applied to a 3-DOF piezo driven flexure stage …
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Novel nanomanufacturing methods for bottom-up III-V nanowires and van der Waals epitaxy of monolayer MoS2
Nano materials such as nanowires and 2-dimensional (2-D) molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) have received tremendous attention over the past few decades. Numerous applications have been proposed such as nanowire MOSFETs, nanowire electrical generators, nanowire biosensors, nanowire single photon …
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Fabrication of 1-dimensional nanowires from genetically modified M13 phage through surfactant-mediated hybridization and the applications in medical diagnosis, energy devices, and catalysis
… templates for the preparation of various nano-materials due to their beneficial interactions at the molecular level. The bio-mineralization of genetically engineered M13 bacteriophage resulted in one-dimensional nanowires having outstanding properties in diverse applications. As a bridge …
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Design and fabrication of novel nanofiber membranes via electrospinning technique for membrane distillation
… study is the development of suitable electrospun nanofiber membranes for MD. This study mainly focuses on the newly-developed one-dimensional and two-dimensional nano-materials embedded nanofiber membranes, which suffer less wetting issue and have improved water vapor flux performance in MD. It …
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Thermo-mechanical behavior of silicon at nanoscale — an in situ investigation
Materials at the micrometer and submicrometer scale exhibit mechanical properties that are substantially different from bulk materials. With the increasing miniaturization of devices, accurate characterization of micro/nanoscale materials and fundamental understanding of their deformation mechanism …
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Direct and quantitative broadband absorptance micro/nano spectroscopy using FTIR and bilayer cantilever probes
Optical properties of micro/nano materials are important for many applications in biology, optoelectronics, and energy. In this thesis, a method is described to directly measure the quantitative absorptance spectra of micro/nano-sized structures using Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS). The …
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Ignition of metal powder by electrostatic discharge stimulation
… replacement of regular metal powders with nanocomposite metal-based materials is being considered. Such nanocomposite reactive materials are capable of very high reaction rates while maintaining the high combustion enthalpies characteristic of metals. However, such novel reactive …
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TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLUIDIZATION OF NANOMATERIALS VIA BIOMIMETIC MEMBRANES TOWARDS ASSISTED SELF-ASSEMBLY
<p>Materials that take advantage of the exceptional properties of nano-meter sized aggregates of atoms are poised to play an important role in future technologies. Prime examples for such nano-materials that have an extremely large surface to volume ratio and thus are physically determined by …
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Experimental characterization of adsorption and transport properties for advanced thermo-adsorptive batteries
… and transport properties of adsorptive materials for the development of the ATB. We discuss the feasibility of using contemporary adsorptive materials, such as zeolite 13X, by carrying out a detailed experimental and theoretical characterization. Enthalpy of desorption of zeolite 13X - …
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