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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"self-assembled nanostructures"”.
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Thermal transport in self-assembled nanostructures
Understanding of phonon mediated thermal transport properties in nanostructured materials is essential for the intelligent design of next-generation microelectronic and thermoelectric devices. Presented here is the study of the thermal transport properties of model organic-inorganic, nanoscopically …
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Fabrication and Device Applications of Self Assembled Nanostructures
… in inorganic and organic semiconducting nanostructures has become an area of interest in recent years. The controlled manipulation of an electron’s spin, and in particular its phase, is the primary requirement for applications in quantum information processing. The phase decoheres in a …
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Epitaxy of Self -Assembled Nanostructures by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition
The future of self-assembled nanostructures lies in the selective placement of individual nanostructures for applications such as integrated optoelectronics, quantum computing and quantum encryption. By utilizing InGaAs thin films, a method of selective area epitaxy has been developed. Not only is …
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Indium growth and island height control on Si submonolayer phases
… make it possible to control the dimensions of self-assembled nanostructures. An important goal in present day surface science is to grow uniform sized self-assembled nanostructures. One system which has displayed a number of interesting surface structures is Pb/In grown on a Si(111) substrate. …
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Geometric and optical transformations of supramolecular host-guest amphiphiles
Molecular self-assembly has been an area of recent interest due to its application in a variety of important contexts including drug delivery, regenerative medicine, energy applications, and others. Simultaneously, host-guest chemistry provides a robust and powerful mechanism for inducing switching …
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Block copolymer self-assembly and templating strategies
… the need for lithographic guidance. These self-assembled nanostructures have a variety of bulk geometries (alternating lamellae, gyroids, cylinder or sphere arrays, tiling patterns, core-shell structures) depending on the molecular architecture of the polymer and the volume fraction of its …
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Plasmonic and Superconducting Self-Assembled MBE Grown Indium Islands
… in order to achieve high quality metal films or nanostructures for plasmonics. Recently MBE grown silver films have been shown to possess optical constants closer to that of intrinsic silver leading to lower losses and thus allowing for higher quality plasmonics. MBE has also been used to grow …
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Self-assembled peptide as a long-acting drug formulation
… many – if not all – peptides can be converted to self-assembled nanostructures [4]. Amyloid fibrils are characterized by enhanced chemical, biological and mechanic stability compared to soluble peptides, and allow a controlled release by dissociation of monomers from the fibril termini [5]. Here I …
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Optomechanical anisotropy in nanoengineered polymer photonic crystals
… optical properties. This can be difficult for self-assembled nanostructures, due to their restriction by fundamental principles to preferential geometries, but can be achieved through the application of external stimuli. In order to explore such an approach, elastomeric, nanoengineered, polymer …
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Controlling nanostructures of globular protein-polymer block copolymers in bulk solutions and in thin films
The self-assembly of globular protein-polymer diblock copolymers represents a promising technology for protein nanopatterning. The self-assembled materials have a high density of proteins and internal nanostructures that serve as continuous transport pathways for substrates, products, cofactors, …
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Directing the self-assembly of short peptide derivatives
Self-assembly of molecular building blocks has attracted increasing interest as an effective bottom-up approach for the design of functional nanomaterials. Amongst the variety of known molecular building blocks, very short (di- and tri-) peptides and their derivatives are of particular relevance in …
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Simulation and control of dynamic directed self-assembly of nanostructures
Self-assembled nanoscale structures are the basis for various technological advancements in functional materials, sensors, and molecular circuits and factories. With significant progress in self-assembly of periodic nanostructures (such as monolayers), the focus is now shifting towards non-periodic …
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Tuning Strong Correlated Properties in EuTiO3 Thin Films Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition
… optimizing the growth condition for ETO-based self-assembled vertically alligned nanocomposite (VAN) thin films were carried out. We carried out investigations for finding a suitable binary oxide second phase to incoporate with ETO. It was challenging since the growth condition suitable for …
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The Application of Thin Film Ionic Self-assembled Multilayer (ISAM) Nanostructures in Electromechanical Bending Actuators and Micro-fabricated Gas Chromatography (uGC) Devices
Ionic self-assembled multilayer (ISAM) thin film nanostructures, including highly porous and conductive gold nanoparticles (GNP), and highly porous and thermally stable silica nanoparticles (SNP), were fabricated via the layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly technique. Their application in ionic …