Interfacing Nanomaterials With Fluids and Living Biological Systems

Advances in nanotechnology are generating new knowledge and technology that impact many scientific and technological areas. Nanomaterials have played an important role in the advances: they have served as model systems to explore nanoscale physics and as building blocks to develop nanoscale tools and devices. The rational applications of nanomaterials require understanding of their fundamental properties. Early studies of nanomaterials---characterization of individual nanomaterials (e.g., carbon nanotubes)---have mostly focused on their basic mechanical and electrical properties. Most of these studies have relied on tools and methods rooted in solid-state physics, such as electron microscopes, scanning probe microscopes, and microfabricated testing devices; thus, the tools and methods were difficult to incorporate "soft" materials, rooted in chemistry and biology, into the studies. Despite enormous potential of technologies that integrate nanomaterials (more generally, nanotechnology and the physical sciences) and "soft" materials (more generally, chemical and biological systems), the basic knowledge of how "hard" nanomaterials interact with "soft" materials and how to interface "inorganic" nanomaterials with "organic" biomolecules and living biological systems was lacking.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Mechanical Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Yum, Kyungsuk

Contributors dc:contributor

• Yu, Min-Feng

• Engineering, Biomedical
• Engineering, Mechanical
• Engineering, Materials Science

Identifier

(UMI)AAI3363123

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72230