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Mechanochemical Activation of Synthetic Nanosized 2-d Layered Materials: Preparation and Characterization
(2017-04-21)The clay materials provide a 2-D lamellar structure with a myriad of applications in medicine, water treatment, catalysis, and biochemistry. They are utilized for the development of organic and/or inorganic-clay nanocomposites ... -
A Study of Micro-Mechanical Punching for the Interconnection of Polymer Microfluidic Devices
(2018-11-20)The design of a microfluidic device can become encumbered when there is a desire to include multiple functional features. To avoid these complications one alternative is the modular design where independent devices are ... -
Biodegradable Enzymatically Activated Nanoprobes for Dual Imaging and Therapy of Breast Cancer
(2017-07-26)Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide. Near infrared optical imaging has emerged recently as a viable alternative for the detection, ... -
Role of the cation in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite solar materials
(2018-07-24)Climate change has renewed research into alternative power sources. One hot research topic is that of novel solar devices such as the hybrid inorganic-organic perovskite solar cell. Currently, hybrid perovskite solar cells ... -
Biogenic Silica Nanoparticles Derived from Rice Husk Biomass and their Applications
(2013-12)According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the global paddy rice production in 2013 is estimated to be 746 million tons. Based on this, the amount of rice husks (RHs) are estimated to ... -
Characterization, Physical Properties and Commercial Viability of Blended Cements with High Volume Interground Limestone
(2015-11-17)The production of cement is one of the largest sources of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in the world. Although cement is critical to the development of most infrastructure, regulations and permitting make ... -
Characterization of Devices and Materials for Gallium Nitride and Diamond Thermal Management Applications
(2016-11-22)As trends progress toward higher power applications in GaN-based electronic and photonic devices, the issue of self-heating becomes a prominent concern. This is especially the case for high-brightness light-emitting diodes ... -
Interaction of DNA and RNA Molecules with Nanoclays that Have Potential for Use in Gene Therapy
(2017-12-01)In recent years, research has been carried out in the field of drug/biomolecule delivery for optimizing the carrier. Nanoclays such as halloysite (HNT) and montmorillonite (MMT) can be used as protective carriers for ... -
Impurities In Antiferromagnetic Transition-metal Oxides – Symmetry And Optical Transitions
(2017-11-28)The study of antiferromagnetic transition-metal oxides is an extremely active area in the physical sciences, where condensed matter physics, inorganic chemistry, and materials science blend together. The sheer number of ... -
Growth Mechanism of Graphene Synthesized on Ni/Cu Alloy through CVD Method and Use Graphene as a Diffusion Barrier for Thermoelectric Device
(2016-07-28)Graphene is the first two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystal available to the world. It is a two-dimensional sheet of sp2 -hybridized carbon. Its extended honeycomb network is the basic building block of other important ... -
Growth and characterization of wide bandgap semiconductor oxide thin films
(2017-07-20)Wide bandgap semiconductors are receiving extensive attention due to their exceptional physical and chemical properties making them useful for high efficiency and high power electronic devices. Comparing other conventional ... -
Amide and Ester-Functionalized Humic Acid for Fuel Combustion Enhancement
(2017-04-21)Humic acid is a class of naturally occurring molecules composed of large sheet-like regions of cyclic aromatic hydrocarbon networks with surface and edge functional groups including phenols, carboxylic acids, and epoxides. ... -
Synthesis, Characterization, and In Vitro Evaluation of Near-Infrared Absorbing Conductive Polymer Nanoparticles as Agents for Photothermal Ablation of Breast Cancer Cells
(2015-11-24)In recent years, photothermal therapy (PTT) has emerged as a viable alternative for cancer treatment. Much effort has been devoted to finding various types of PTT agents with excellent heat generation, photothermal efficiency, ... -
Layer-By-Layer Films via 3D Drop on Demand Printing
(2014-07-10)The traditional method for making Layer-By-Layer films is a laborious, expensive, wasteful, and non-ecofriendly process; therefore this study was conducted to find a faster, more cost efficient, and non-wasteful method of ... -
2-D Transition Metal Cyanide Nanosheets as Precursor Material for an Ultra-Low Platinum Group Metal Catalyst
(2014-04-17)Two methods were developed to coat activated carbon with NiPt(CN)4 nanosheets by reacting potassium tetracyanoplatinate(II) with nickel(II) sulfate in the presence of the carbon substrate. The modification of pH released ... -
Method and Mechanism of Colloidal Assembly for Surface Patterning
(2015-11-24)In the field of self-assembly of colloids, there are a number of unanswered questions; can creation of surface patterns be merely achieved by the design of the process? What is the mechanism behind the formation of spontaneous ... -
A Novel 2-D Transition Metal Cyanide Membrane: Modeling, Structural, Magnetic, and Functional Characterization
(2015-07-21)A novel 2-dimensional crystalline material composed of cyanide-bridged metal nanosheets with a square planar framework has been prepared. This material, similar to Hofmann clathrates, has a variety of interesting properties. ... -
Functionalized Graphene: Characterization and Mechanical Reinforcement
(2015-07-16)Polymer nanocomposites with better performance and lower cost are in constant demand. One of the challenges inherent in this field is balancing these two factors. Graphene provides the possibility of producing high performance ... -
Investigation of III-V Semiconductor Heterostructures for Post-Si-CMOS Applications
(2015-07-15)Silicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology in the past few decades has been driven by aggressive device scaling to increase performance, reduce cost and lower power consumption. However, as devices ... -
Reduction Study of Oxidized Two-dimensional Graphene-based Materials by Chemical and Thermal Reduction Methods
(2014-11-17)Graphene is a two-dimensional (2D) sp2-hybridized carbon-based material possessing properties which include high electrical conductivity, ballistic thermal conductivity, tensile strength exceeding that of steel, high ...
