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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"nanotechnology research"”.
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A modular atomic force microscope for nanotechnology research
… fields, from materials science and semiconductor research to molecular biology. Various research efforts have enhanced the capabilities of this powerful instrument, which has enabled new insights into nanoscale phenomena. Despite decades of research, state-of-the-art AFMs are not widely utilized. …
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Science of the Small: Nanotechnology Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
… of the urban experience. Through the design of a nanotechnology research laboratory, I was able to discover a connection between modern architecture and nanotechnology which revolved around the topics of scale, layering and revealing.
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A Policy Framework for Developing a National Nanotechnology Program
Molecular nanotechnology has matured in the last thirty-nine years from the germ of an idea by a Nobel Laureate physicist to a rapidly growing international research site with more than $1 billion dollars in annual investment. Although only recently accepted as "mainstream" by the R&D community, …
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The Future Military Applications and International Security Implications of Biotechnology and Nanotechnology
… problems posed by advanced biotechnology and nanotechnology. Research into the biological sciences is presented as a backdrop to the field of biotechnology. Biotechnology, the amalgamation of genetic engineering and gene-based therapeutics, may provide tools of warfare that could create …
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Infrared detectors based on two-dimensional materials and heterostructures
… 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 interaction phenomena …
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Emerging Design Methodology And Its Implementation Through Rns And Qca
… Large Scale Integrated circuits (VLSI) and to a nanotechnology logic circuits. Research focused on increasing the speed and reducing the size of the circuit design. Residue Number System (RNS) architecture has ability to support high speed concurrent arithmetic applications. To reduce the size, …
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DNA based networks, nanostructures, and meta-stable states
Nanotechnology is defined as the technology that allows to fabricate nanoscale materials and manipulate them at the molecular or atomic level. Non-biotechnology is one of the sub-disciplines of nanotechnology. Materials used for nano-biotechnology are macromolecular materials found in nature with …
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News about nanotechnology: a longitudinal framing analysis of newspaper reporting on nanotechnology.
… the world have invested billions of pounds in nanotechnology research and development, and more than a thousand consumer products which manufacturers claim to involve nanotechnology are currently on the market. As such, the applications from this emerging field of science and technology have …
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Fabrication and characterisation of ZnO nanostructures: from nanoscale building blocks to hybrid nanomaterials - towards emerging technologies in sensing applications
… are at the forefront of applications driven nanotechnology research. In particular, they represent a versatile solution for performance enhancement and applications in multifunctional devices and offer distinct advantages over their bulk counterparts. The current state in ZnO nanomaterials …
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Molecular Simulation Of Nanoscale Transport Phenomena
… has been augmented through current trends in nanotechnology research. The theme of this dissertation is to characterize electric charge, mass and thermal transport at the nanoscale using a fundamental molecular simulation method, namely molecular dynamics. This dissertation reports simulations …
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Crafting life : a sensory ethnography of fabricated biologies
… theories. Sonocytology, a technique in nanotechnology research, uses scanning probe microscopes to "listen to" cellular vibrations and "feel" the topologies of cells and cellular components. Molecular gastronomy is a movement in which practitioners - physical chemists and biochemists who …
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Nanotechnology Patents : The next technological revolution and the future of the patent system
… Despite being in an early stage of development, nanotechnology is already the subject of a high amount of patents, and as noted by the European Parliament, the current nanotechnology patent landscape is not sufficiently transparent and general reforms of the patent system are needed. Reforming …
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ZnO Nanostructures: Low-Temperature Synthesis, Characterisation, Their Potential Application as Gene-Delivery Tools
… of the most important nanomaterials in today’s nanotechnology research. Over the past several decades, ZnO nanostructures have been extensively investigated for their extraordinary physical and chemical characteristics and also for their prominent performance in various novel applications such …
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Accelerating Innovation: Assessing Nanotechnologies, Prototypes and Research Teams
… 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 twenty-first century laboratory-based …