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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Nanofluidics"”.
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CMOS nanofluidics
Diagnostic tests are essential to medical practice. In vitro diagnostics is a market worth US$ 40-45 billion. Diagnostic tests are usually conducted in centralized laboratories, equipped with expensive instrumentation and staffed with trained personnel. An important part of clinical diagnosis …
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Single Ion Detection in Nanotube Nanofluidics
This dissertation demonstrated the application of organic color center (OCC)-functionalized (6,5) single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) to detect proton diffusion in nanofluidic systems at the single-ion level. I first developed a method to encapsulate SWCNTs between two layers of Parylene-C, a …
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Science of Nanofluidics and Energy Conversion
The emerging subject of nanofluidics, where solids and fluids interact closely at the nanoscale, has exhibited radically different from their macroscopic counterparts (and sometimes counterintuitive), and yet relatively less explored. On the other hand, the resulting unique properties may …
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Nanofluidics: Fundamentals and Applications in Energy Conversion
… energy conversion system are governed by nanofluidics , namely, the behavior of liquid molecules and ions when confined in ultra-small nanopores. Nanofluidics is an emerging research frontier where solid mechanics and fluid mechanics meet at the nanoscale. The complex interactions between …
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Polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEM) in micro / nanofluidics for novel BioMEMS platforms
The overall goal of this thesis was to exploit the versatility of the polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM) to fabricate a novel micro/nanofluidic device for patterning bacteria in BioMEMS. Nanofluidic channels offer new opportunities for advanced biomolecule manipulation and separation science because …
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Molecular Dynamics and Ab Initio Studies on Nanofluidics in Boron Nitride Nanotubes
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Thin liquid films with nanoparticles and rod-like ions as models for nanofluidics
… the rise of nanotechnology in the last decade, nanofluidics has been established as a research field and gained increased interest in science and industry. Natural aqueous nanofluidic systems are very complex, there is often a predominance of liquid interfaces or the fluid contains charged or …
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Phase Behavior, Filling Dynamics, and Packing of Fluids inside Isolated Carbon Nanotubes
… and batteries for energy storage. The study of nanofluidics also informs our understanding of natural phenomena, including the single-file transport of water into biological cells and flow through nanoporous geologic media. In this thesis, we develop experimental platforms to study confinement …
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Prediction, analysis, and learning of advective transport in dynamic fluid flows
… fluid mechanics, geophysical flows, micro and nanofluidics, and biological flows. Even though mathematical models that thoroughly describe such transport exist, the inherent nonlinearities and the high dimensionality of complex fluid systems make it very challenging to develop the capabilities …
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Selective molecular transport in nanopore systems
… the potential to revolutionize water filtration, nanofluidics, and biomolecule detection technologies. I give my characterizations of five nanopore systems as my dissertation. First, I present my study of nanopores in polyethylene terephthalate (PET), revealing the mechanism for variance in …
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Ion transport in multilayer solid-state nanopores for memory and biosensing applications
… multilayer architectures for applications in nanofluidics, biosensing, and molecular data storage. Through molecular dynamics simulations coupled with electron transport modeling, this work focuses on the mechanisms governing asymmetric ion transport in “Janus” MoSSe nanopore membranes with …
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Ultra-high-aspect-ratio nanofluidic channels for high-throughput biological applications
The development of micro/nanofluidics is expected to be the enabling technology for sample preparation of proteomic biosamples, which has been the bottleneck in proteomics. Most microfabricated nanofluidic channels, such as planar nanochannels and square nanochannels, suffer from small open volume …
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The development of nanofluidic platforms for biomolecular separations
… advances in the field of separations and in nanofluidics. It will provide the groundwork for any future nanofluidic studies.
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Integrated optic/nanofluidic detection device with plasmonic readout
… integrated fabrication process including glass nanofluidics, diffused waveguides and metal structures was developed. To enable this process a voltage-assisted polymer bond procedure was developed. This bond process enables high strength, robust, optically clear, low temperature bonding of glass …
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Advances in biophysical methods for protein detection and characterisation
… enable new techniques. A method to easily add nanofluidics elements to microfluidic designs is discussed. Finally, three characterisation methods are described. First, diffusional sizing uses a microfluidic chip to create a concentration gradient. The protein diffusion coefficient is extracted …
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Design, fabrication, and characterization of a motion stage for scalable imprinting of DNA nanowires
… for drug discovery, protein isolation, nanofluidics, and other applications. Previous work on the DCI process has primarily focused on the mechanics of the imprinting process rather than scale, and misalignments between the stamp and slide surfaces make it difficult to increase the scale …
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Transport properties of DNA nanostructures
… of DNA nanostructures in biosensing, nanofluidics, drug delivery and biomedical engineering.
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New concepts in energy and mass transport within carbon nanotubes
… transport, selective gas permeation, and nanofluidics. The first part of this thesis considers CNTs as substrates for guided chemical reactivity and thermal waves for energy generation. Coupling an exothermic chemical reaction with a nanowire possessing a high axial thermal conductivity …
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Engineering the Iontronic Properties of Nanoporous Anodic Alumina and Its Applications
… such as energy conversion, sensing and nanofluidics.
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Biomolecular transport at and through two-dimensional materials
… nanopore sensing applications for controllable nanofluidics and nanopore sensing applications conducive towards biomolecule sequencing. A nanopore sequencer operates by recording the ionic current as a single-stranded DNA molecule is electrophoretically driven through a nanopore; ionic current …
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