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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"nanotechnologies"”.
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Commercialization of nanotechnologies
… the critical success factors in commercializing nanotechnologies; and the factors limiting the adoption and diffusion of nanotechnologies. The results and analysis of the interviews demonstrate that commercialization strategies for large corporations differ from those for start-up companies, with …
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Circuit Design Methods with Emerging Nanotechnologies
… future circuit design and computation. These nanotechnologies have shown promising potentials to achieve magnitude improvement in performance and integration density. The substitution of CMOS transistors with nano-devices is expected to not only continue along the exponential projection of …
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A systems approach to engineering cancer nanotechnologies
… multiple nanoscale components, biomedical nanotechnologies to date have largely lacked systems-scale complexity. Considering that typical in vivo doses of diagnostic or therapeutic nanoparticles exceed I trillion nanoparticles, there is considerable opportunity to construct multi-component, …
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Accelerating Innovation: Assessing Nanotechnologies, Prototypes and Research Teams
The Army-sponsored Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) was an entrepreneurial research institute established at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002. Using Science and Technology Studies (STS) concepts from Actor-Network Theory, I study the founding era of this …
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Application of nanotechnologies for the therapeutic use of natural compounds
… and low bioavailability. In this context, nanotechnologies, particularly phospholipid vesicles, represent promising strategies to overcome these challenges, enhancing the release, efficacy, and safety of natural products. In addition to extracts derived from traditional medicinal plants, …
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Three-dimensional device and circuit architectures : new systems with new nanotechnologies
… This is motivating the search for beyond-silicon nanotechnologies, such as one-dimensional carbon nanotubes (CNTs) or two-dimensional nanomaterials such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Yet simply relying on new materials alone is insufficient for realizing the next generation of …
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Increasing the optical transparency of a living mouse brain (and other nanotechnologies)
… living systems. We conclude this thesis with two nanotechnologies that may be leveraged for making higher performance reagents for increasing the optical transparency of living brain tissue. (1) A method for the synthesis of high-yield and high-monodispersity nanoparticles of a variety of …
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Opening Participation through Participatory Technology Assessment: The Case of Nanotechnologies for Tomorrow's Society
… participatory technology assessment (pTA) on nanotechnologies defined and negotiated the meaning of participation in (nano)science and technology in the course of their engagements. It focuses explicitly on the initiating role that social scientists played in the project and how they performed …
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Driving Emerging Technologies From Concept to Reality: A Case Study of Carbon Nanotubes
… Yet despite the promise of these emerging nanotechnologies, their nascency has made their integration into practical and useful electronic systems challenging. In my thesis, I aim to tackle this challenge and present a roadmap for how such new and immature nanotechnologies can be leveraged …
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Nanoelectronic and nanomechanical devices for low temperature applications
… quantum mechanical phenomena. The progression of nanotechnologies provides new and exciting research opportunities to probe nature at ever smaller length scales. The coupling of nanotechnologies and low temperature techniques has potential for scientific discoveries as well as real world …
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Metal-TiO2 nanocomposites towards efficient solar-driven photocatalysis
… of materials at nanoscale. Research on novel nanotechnologies must bring advances in order to contrast and prevent water scarcity and pollution. In order to be effective, these nanotechnologies should run at low operational cost, even in places unequipped by strong infrastructures and in …
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Analysis of Dynamic Surface Instabilities in Soft Hydrogel Cylinders Subject to Laser-Driven Shock-Loading
… performed at the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies have demonstrated undulations along the surface of pressurized cylindrical specimens of soft hydrogels which develop on an intermediate timescale in between what is expected from classic static and dynamic instability mechanisms. In …
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Nanosystems: From the Lab to the Fab
… is embodied by “NanoSystems”, which use emerging nanotechnologies to realize new system architectures to enable new applications. Yet however intellectually compelling or interesting nanosystems are, the problems facing computing today are very real and very current. Unfortunately, despite the …
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Nanostructuring with diblock copolymers
… and device fabrication. In future, scalable nanotechnologies will complement current silicon technology and promise to extend the functionality of today’s semiconductor devices. In keeping up with the demands of the information age and Moore’s law, the emerging technologies will ultimately …
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Affidabilità di laser sintonizzabili di tipo innovativo per applicazioni in sistemi di telecomunicazione
… laser of new conception, based on photonic nanotechnologies.
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SHARC : self-healing analog with RRAM and CNFETs
… (RRAM) for memory are two promising emerging nanotechnologies for energy-efficient electronics. However, CNFETs suffer from inherent imperfections (such as of metallic CNTs, m-CNTs), which have prohibited realizing large-scale CNFET circuits in the past. This work proposes a circuit design …
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Designing Framework For The Computer Aided Design Of Silicon Carbide JFET Circuits In BLEO Environments
… framework will help test the modern and emerging nanotechnologies for the temperature dependence of sic electronics and sensors in harsh environments. Framework along with the integrated circuit design and the simulations for the sic electronic circuit are the desired results for this project.</p>
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Nanoscale interface mechanics with application to magnetic storage
… in the design and implementation of future nanotechnologies.
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Low variance methods for Monte Carlo simulation of phonon transport
… kinetic transport are of great use in micro and nanotechnologies. In this work, we focus on Monte Carlo methods for phonon transport, intended for studies in microscale heat transfer. After reviewing the theory of phonons, we use scientific literature to write a Monte Carlo code solving the …
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A Manufacturing Methodology for Carbon Nanotube-based Digital Systems: from Devices, to Doping, to System Demonstrations
… spurring research towards beyond-silicon nanotechnologies. In particular, carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNFET)-based digital circuits promise substantial energy-efficiency benefits, but the inability to perfectly control intrinsic nanoscale defects and variability in carbon …
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