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Showing 1 to 20 of 282 for “"nanoscience"”.
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Unique Approaches to Interfacial Nanoscience
Other applications of the nanofabrication techniques are also explored. The nanopatterning of mica with a focused ion beam (FIB), shown for the first time here, has led to the formation of a wide variety of nanorod structures embedded in and supported by a number of different surfaces. The …
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Nanoscience Meets Geochemistry: Size-Dependent Reactivity of Hematite
… are common in natural systems. The discipline of nanoscience suggests that these particles in the size range of approximately 1-50 nm will have properties that deviate from the bulk properties of the same material and that these properties will change as a function of particle size. This study …
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Characterization, modeling, and simulation of multiscale directed-assembly systems
Nanoscience is a rapidly developing field at the nexus of all physical sciences which holds the potential for mankind to gain a new level of control of matter over matter and energy altogether. Directed-assembly is an emerging field within nanoscience in which non-equilibrium system dynamics are …
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Chemistry of novel nanoscale carbon materials: Nanodiamond and carbon nano-onions
Nanoscience is the area of science concerning materials on the level of nanometer scale. Currently much of the discussion of nanoscience is focused on carbon-based nanostructures. Tremendous studies have been carried out on fullerenes and carbon nanotubes in the past a couple of decade due to their …
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A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF BONDING INTERACTIONS AND SURFACE CHEMISTRY ON METAL SUBSTRATES
The progress and evolution of nanoscience have brought a significant impact on our modern society. The precise manipulation of nanostructures' size, shapes, and morphologies plays an important role in unlocking their unique physical properties and exploring diverse applications. To construct …
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Infrared detectors based on two-dimensional materials and heterostructures
… atomic thickness, promise an ideal platform for nanoscience and nanotechnology research on which we are able to engineer functional structures and study their properties at the limit of the atomic scale. This thesis discusses opportunities and challenges of studying emerging light-matter …
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Optical Properties of Substrate Supported Mixtures of Silver and Gold Nanoparticles
… have been extensively explored in the field of nanoscience owing to their strong plasmonic responses in the visible region of the spectrum. Herein, mixtures of Au and Ag nanoparticles (NPs) were combined to achieve new nanoarchitectures with useful electromagnetic properties. It was predicted …
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Recursive Behavior Recording: Complex Motor Stereotypies and Anatomical Behavior Descriptions
… biological interface (wearable sensors and nanoscience in vitro assays) to design the architecture for exploratory diagnostic instruments. Motion capture technology when calibrated to multi-resolution indexing system (MeSH based) quantifies potential diagnostic criteria for comparing …
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Introducing spin-orbit interaction in graphene
… and gate tunability, make it central to modern nanoscience. However, the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) naturally present in graphene is extremely weak and has yet to be observed experimentally. This presents an obstacle for accessing novel phenomena in transport and optics, in particular those …
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Increasing the bit density of a quantum confinement physically unclonable function
… work carried out in collaboration with the IMDEA nanoscience institute. We study the recently proposed quantum confinement physically unclonable function by Roberts, et al. that utilises resonant tunnelling diodes (physical representation of a quantum well) and atomic scale imperfections for …
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VIABILITY OF CERIUM OXIDE NANOPARTICLES AS A RADIOPROTECTOR AGAINST PROTON RADIATION FOR NON-MALIGNANT CELLS
… synthesized at the University of Central Florida Nanoscience Technology Center and were transferred to ECU. Cell viability was measured with the Microculture Tetrazolium (MTT) assay 24 and 48 hours post irradiation. DNA damage was determined using the Terminal Uridine Nick-End Labeling (TUNEL) …
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Light-matter interactions in all-dielectric silicon nanoresonators
… been driven by the advances in electronics and nanoscience that allow the precise sculpting of materials with precision down to the nanometer level. In this thesis, light-matter interaction, i.e., controlling optical response using resonant nanoscale scatterers is shown. Light-matter interaction …
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Commercialization of nanotechnologies
… technologies. Significant and rapid advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology have been made in the past two decades. Numerous potential applications have been identified, with a promise to transform virtually every industry. These industries include aerospace, agriculture, biotechnology, …
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Generation, manipulation and detection of NIR and MIR entangled photon pairs
… was carried out within the SiQuro project at the Nanoscience laboratory of the University of Trento. The project started in September 2013 and lasted four years. It was funded by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento (PAT). SiQuro’s goal was to bring the quantum world into integrated photonics by using …
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Thin-film single-walled carbon nanotube transistors fabricated using mechanical meniscus aligned arrays
… sensory devices and other areas of nanoscience. However, several challenges need to be addressed before SWNTs can be considered as potential candidates for future nanoelectronic devices. In order to use SWNTs to fabricate high performance nanoelectronic devices on a large scale, it …
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The Fundamental Photophysics of Fluorescent Carbon Nanodots
… (CDs) are a new protagonist of carbon-based nanoscience by which the paradigm of carbon as a black material unable to emit light has been completely revolutionised. They have been emerging as a new frontier in Nanoscience at the beginning of 2000s, and their potential is evident from the …
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The Synthesis and Host-Guest Applications of Synthetic Receptor Molecules
… industry as anti-cancer agents.1 The field of nanoscience has exploited guest-host interactions to create optical sensors with colloidal gold and Dip-Pen nanolithography technologies. Gold nanoparticles, have been functionalized with DNA, and have been developed as a selective colorimetric …
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Utilization of nanostructured surfaces for sensing applications and the use of nanoentities for the fabrication of new materials
The application of nanoscience in various scientific fields is introduced in Chapter 1 by outlining some of the major drivers of this rapidly evolving field. Methods of nanoscale fabrication, utilizing both 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' approaches, are also introduced in this chapter. Nanoscale …
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Toxicology of nanoparticles after cellular uptake
Nanoscience is a multi-disciplinary field with the potential to both create new applications and understand existent systems, but its materials may be sources of toxicological concern. Understanding their toxic potential becomes essential to prevent any occupational, environmental, and consumer …
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