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Nano-scaled Amino Acid Based Poly(ester amide)s as Delivery Vehicles for Therapeutics against Tumor
(2017-01-30)Amino acid based poly(ester amide)s are a family of biodegradable polymers which have been designed and synthesized for various biomedical applications including tissue engineering scaffold, hydrogels, coating for ... -
Nanoconstructs For Targeting, Imaging, And Photothermal Therapy Of Cancer
(2011-08-31)Nanomaterials are becoming attractive for a variety of medical applications with over 250 nanotechnology-based products in U.S. pharmaceutical pipelines. Nanoparticle-based targeting has the potential to improve upon the ... -
NANOCRYSTAL MEMORY SCALING: FROM MATERIAL SELECTION TO PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
(2008-04-21)Below the 65nm technology node, the present Flash memory technology is facing daunting scaling challenges. Smart and heterogeneous integration of materials throughout the entire device structure is required to facilitate ... -
Nanocrystal Quantum Dots As Building Blocks For Artificial Solids And Their Applications In Optoelectronic Devices
(2012-08-20)Nanocrystal quantum dots exhibit size-dependent optoelectronic properties and provide intriguing scientific and technological opportunities. Most proposed technologies based nanocrystals depend on macroscopic functional ... -
Nanofabricated Fluid Filled Channels for Analysis of Single DNA Molecules
(2008-11-03)Nanofabricated, fluid filled channels are presented as tools for the manipulation and detection of single DNA molecules. Both the conformation and position of DNA molecules within such devices can be controlled using a ... -
Nanofluidic Channels for Biological Separations
(2006-12-21)Nanofluidic channels are used to separate DNA molecules by length and applications of the channels to other biomolecules are discussed. The problem of separating DNA and biomolecules by length, charge, or other physical ... -
NANOPARTICLE INTENSIFICATION: PRECISE SYNTHESIS, SCALE-UP, AND IMPROVED CHARACTERIZATION
(2018-08-30)Colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) embody the promise of materials by design, offering atomic-level tunability for a range of applications from electronics to catalysis. Their promise has intensified the demand to scale-up NP ... -
Nanoparticle Transport Through Fractures And Heterogeneous Porous Media
(2012-05-27)Nanoparticles have a diffusion constant a couple of orders of magnitude smaller than inert chemical tracers such as potassium bromide (KBr), and this means that they can potentially be used to measure the degree to which ... -
NANOPARTICLE-AEROSOL TECHNOLOGY: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF METAL ALLOYS
(2017-12-30)A series of new steel alloys were prepared by injecting particle aerosols into molten steel using an experimental set up (bench top furnace equipped with an aerosolizer) designed, built, and commissioned at Cornell. The ... -
Nanoparticle-Coated Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) Granules For Biomedical Applications
(2012-08-20)Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) is a biodegradable and biocompatible polymer produced by many bacteria as a stored carbon source. Recent reviews have recently recognized PHB granules as a biomaterial that can be functionalized ... -
Nanoparticles In The Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope
(2009-10-13)The process of improving and producing novel nanomaterials requires visibility at the nanoscale -- something the scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM), especially the new, aberration-corrected STEM, can provide. ... -
NANOPATTERNING CHEMISTRY TO CONTROL THE GROWTH OF TRANSITION METAL OXIDES
(2017-12-30)Despite advances in nanomaterials synthesis, the bottom-up preparation of nanopatterned films as templates for spatially confined surface reactions and nucleation of crystalline inorganics remains a challenge. I developed ... -
Nanophotonic Force Microscopy: Measuring Nanoparticle Interactions on the Thermal Energy Scale Using Near-field Optical Trapping and Light Scattering
(2017-05-30)Nanoparticles are becoming ubiquitous in many applications including diagnostic assays, drug delivery and therapeutics, enhanced hydrocarbon recovery, and catalysis. However, there are challenges in the quality control of ... -
Nanophotonic Interconnect Architectures For Many-Core Microprocessors
(2012-01-31)Nanophotonics is an emerging technology that has the potential to improve the performance and energy consumption of inter- and intra-die communication in future chip multiprocessors. To date, the successful demonstration ... -
Nanophotonic Technologies For Manipulating Biomolecules And Investigating Molecular Interactions
(2014-08-18)This dissertation aims to develop nanophotonic technologies by integrating photonic-crystal-based nanostructures with microfluidic techniques. Firstly, a selfassembled photonic nanostructure is developed to exploit that a ... -
Nanophotonic Waveguides For Biomolecular Transport And Particle Control
(2010-10-20)Current separation and fractionation technologies developed for lab-on-a-chip platforms are often unable to differentiate single particles or objects from those with similar properties (eg. size or charge). One potential ... -
Nanoscale Ionic Materials: Synthesis And Properties
(2010-04-09)Nanoscale Ionic Materials (NIMs) are hybrid organic-inorganic materials which consist of a core nanoparticle, a covalently grafted charged corona, and an associated canopy with a charge opposite that of the canopy. In this ... -
Nanoscale Light Confinement: Principles, Measurement, and Applications
(2008-08-26)By confining photons to small volumes for long periods of time, optical nanocavities offer the ability to greatly enhance the interaction between light and matter. This can greatly improve the efficiency of photonic devices ... -
Nanostructure Formation Of Inorganic Materials From The Self-Assembly Of Highly Amphiphilic Block Copolymers
(2012-08-20)High performance catalysts or energy devices such as solar cells and batteries which involve reactions and transport problems require nanostructured functional materials that are highly ordered mesoporous and crystalline ...
