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Showing 1 to 20 of 187 for “"nanomaterial"”.
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Nanomaterial design and fabrication for energy storage
The ‘Internet of Things’ scenario envisions billions of wireless sensors acting as the environmental interface to provide data that will, amongst other benefits reduce analysis costs, improve safety and predict future trends. Non-rechargeable batteries are the predominant energy source for today’s …
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Nanomaterial and molecular adsorption onto complex surfaces
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Controlled Evaluation of Metal-Based Nanomaterial Transformations
Metal-based nanoparticles (MNPs) are becoming increasingly common in commercial products. Release of these materials into the environment raises concerns about the potential risks they pose to aquatic life. Predicting these risks requires an understanding of MNPs' chemical transformations. In this …
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Semiconductor Nanomaterial Development For Photovoltaic And Thermoelectric Applications
… materials.</p> <p>For photovoltaic nanomaterials, we have first made progress in simulations of electron-phonon coupling, which is a major mechanism for efficiency loss, in CdSe quantum dots. Time-domain non-adiabatic ab initio simulations have been performed to study the …
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Architecture and CAD for carbon nanomaterial integrated circuits
… have channels made from semiconducting carbon nanomaterials in the form of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). The research community has given specific attention to these two carbon allotropes because of their outstanding electrical properties, including high mobilities at …
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Mechanics driven architectures for flexible nanomaterial-based sensors
… continuous development in the processing of nanomaterials as well as the integration of ultrathin or soft substrates. Notably, nanomaterials offer exciting tunable physical, chemical and electrical properties that significantly surpass their bulk counterparts. As a result, they have …
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Gold Nanomaterial–Biomolecule Interactions: Influence of Size, Gold Nanomaterial–Biomolecule Interactions: Influence of Size, Surface Chemistry, and Environment Surface Chemistry, and Environment
Gold nanomaterials have emerged as great candidates for biomedical applications because of their physicochemical properties and high biocompatibility. However, their performance strongly depends on their interactions with biomolecules and their stability under physiological environments. This …
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Novel nanoelectromechanical systems for probing and exploiting nanomaterial properties
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Controlling nanomaterial self-assembly for next generation optoelectronic applications
Semiconductor nanocrystals, also known as quantum dots, are an exciting class of materials because their band gap can be tuned according to the nanocrystal size. In this way, the material band gap can be largely decoupled from its atomic composition - a property unique to this system. The potential …
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Bioinspired functional DNA-nanomaterial conjugates for diagnostic and therapeutic applications
… materials with promising applications. Nanomaterials with size similar to biological molecules and systems have shown great promise for diagnostic and therapeutic applications due to their unique properties, such as fluorescent, plasmonic, magnetic, electrochemical, and other physical …
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DNA Walkers: Emerging Analytical Applications, Biomolecular-Nanomaterial Probes and Biomolecule Sensors
DNA walkers are a unique class of dynamic DNA devices that move nucleic acid walkers processively along designated one-, two-, or three-dimensional tracks. Because of the unique mechanical motion, dynamic interaction, and capabilities for signal amplification, programmable signal transduction, high …
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Modular Magnetic Relaxation Nanomaterial Biosensor Platform for Local, Integrative Chemical Monitoring
… fundamental advancements in the exploration of nanomaterial properties, chemical conjugation strategies, and device engineering parameters, the kinetic and signal amplitude performance of a switch-based dosimeter can be substantially improved. The simultaneous investigation of device search and …
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Potamanautes warreni biomarker assays to monitor silver nanomaterial contaminants in aquatic environments
… in the last few decades to such a degree that nanomaterials (NMs) have become a constituent in a wide range of manufactured commercial and domestic products. This surge has resulted in uncertainties regarding their environmental impact, due to the significant increases in the amount of NMs …
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Enhancement In Electrochemical Performance Of Advanced Battery Electrodes Using Carbon- Nanomaterial Composites
<p>LiFePO4 has attracted great interest as a cathode material for lithium ion batteries due to its reasonably high theoretical capacity (170mAh/g), thermal stability, high Li ion reversibility and low cost. However, prohibitively low electronic conductivity (~10-9 S/cm) of LiFePO4 leads to high …
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A New Generation of Idealized Protein Building Blocks Enables Rational Nanomaterial Design
… them. In contrast, the design of novel protein nanomaterials has been difficult due to the irregular shapes and behaviors of naturally-evolved proteins. Even when new protein complexes can be modeled, it remains a challenge to assign sequences to the models for them to form correctly when …
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ULTRA-FAST LASER ENHANCED PRINTING OF NANOMATERIAL FOR HIGH QUALITY TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE
Direct printing of nanomaterials, which integrate nanomaterials into a film via low cost mean, is designed to fabricate transparent conductive electrode (TCE) film. Following laser processing is utilized as the post treatment to enhance the film performance. The laser processing is proposed in …
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Nanomaterial-enabled manufacturing for next-generation multifunctional advanced composite prepreg laminate architectures
Manufacturing of advanced aerospace-grade structural composites has traditionally utilized autoclaves to impart heat and pressure, in addition to vacuum, to create high-quality, void (defect)- free, reproducible structures. Carbon (micro) fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites, which are …
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A General Interfacial Capacitance Model for Nanomaterial Supercapacitors: Insights from Computational Quantum Mechanics
… devices such as those based on low-dimensional nanomaterials. Graphene- based supercapacitors are especially sensitive to quantum interactions since the electrode’s capacitance can be influenced by the presence of substrates, dopants, and/or electrolyte species. Conventional …
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