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Tutorial 2: Thermal Transport Across Interfaces - Electrons
Online Presentations | 16 Aug 2011 | Contributor(s):: Timothy S Fisher
Outline:Thermal boundary resistanceElectronic transportReal interfaces and measurementsCarbon nanotube interfaces
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Nanodays - Space—Lab on Chip Technology: The final frontier
Online Presentations | 18 May 2011 | Contributor(s):: Marshall Porterfield
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NanoDays - Artificial Photosynthesis with Biomimetic Nanomaterials: Self-Repairing Solar Cells
Online Presentations | 05 May 2011 | Contributor(s):: Jong Hyun Choi
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Putting the Electron’s Spin to Work
Online Presentations | 14 Apr 2011 | Contributor(s):: Daniel Ralph
I will discuss recent progress in experimental techniques to control the orientations of nanoscale magnetic moments and electron spins, and to use these new means of control for applications. One powerful new capability arises from the fact that thin magnetic layers can act as filters for spins.
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Tutorial 2: A Bottom-Up View of Heat Transfer in Nanomaterials
Online Presentations | 23 Mar 2011 | Contributor(s):: Timothy S Fisher
This lecture provides a theoretical development of the transport of thermal energy by conduction in nanomaterials. The physical nature of energy transport by two carriers—electrons and phonons--will be explored from basic principles using a common Landauer framework. Issues including the quantum...
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Illinois Nano EP Seminar Series Spring 2010 - Lecture 3: Characterization and Modeling of Transport in Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Films for Device Applications
Online Presentations | 23 Feb 2011 | Contributor(s):: Ashkan Behnam
Single‐walled carbon nanotube (CNT) films are transparent, conductive, and flexible materials. These films have uniform physical and electronic properties, and can be mass produced in a cost effective manner. Due to these favorable properties, they have been suggested for various applications...
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Illinois Nano EP Seminar Series Spring 2010 - Lecture 5: Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes: a Route to Nanoelectronics
Online Presentations | 29 Jan 2011 | Contributor(s):: Jianliang Xiao
Single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) possess extraordinary electrical properties, with many possible applications in electronics. Dense, horizontally aligned arrays of linearly configured SWNTs represent perhaps the most attractive and scalable way to implement this class of nanomaterial in...
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Translational Research in Nano and Bio Mechanics
Online Presentations | 18 Nov 2010 | Contributor(s):: Ken P. Chong
One of the most challenging problems is the integration and interface between wet (biological) and dry (structural) materials. Nano and bio science and engineering is one of the frontiers in transformative and translational research. The transcendent technologies include nanotechnology,...
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Chemically Enhanced Carbon-Based Nanomaterials and Devices
Online Presentations | 09 Nov 2010 | Contributor(s):: Mark Hersam
Carbon-based nanomaterials have attracted significant attention due to their potential to enable and/or improve applications such as transistors, transparent conductors, solar cells, batteries, and biosensors. This talk will delineate chemical strategies for enhancing the electronic and optical...
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Self-Consistent Geometry, Density and Stiffness of Carbon Nanotubes
Online Presentations | 05 May 2010 | Contributor(s):: R. Byron Pipes
A self-consistent set of relationships is developed for the physical properties of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCN) and their hexagonal arrays as a function of the chiral vector integer pair, (n,m). Properties include effective radius, density, principal Young’s modulus, and specific Young’s...
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ECET 499N Lecture 11: Carbon Nanotubes - Synthesis and Applications
Online Presentations | 12 Apr 2010
Guest Lecture: Sungwon S. Kim
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ECET 499N Lecture 10: Nanomaterials
Online Presentations | 12 Apr 2010 | Contributor(s):: Helen McNally
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Surface Characterization Studies of Carbon Materials: SS-DNA, SWCNT, Graphene, HOPG
Online Presentations | 16 Feb 2010 | Contributor(s):: Dmitry Zemlyanov
In this presentation examples of surface characterization studies of carbon specimens will be presented. (1) In particularly, the systematic XPS (X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy) characterization of graphene grown on the SiC surface will be reported. This work demonstrates a use for XPS to...
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Nanotribology, Nanomechanics and Materials Characterization Studies
Online Presentations | 08 Jun 2009 | Contributor(s):: Bharat Bhushan
Fundamental nanotribological studies provide insight to molecular origins of interfacial phenomena including adhesion, friction, wear and lubrication. Friction and wear of lightly loaded micro/nano components are highly dependent on the surface interactions (few atomic layers). Nanotribological...
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Modern X-ray Scattering Methods for Nanoscale Materials Analysis
Online Presentations | 15 Oct 2008 | Contributor(s):: Richard J. Matyi
Since its discovery by von Laue in 1912, X-ray diffraction has become an indispensable tool for structure determinations in the physical and biological sciences. X-rays are characterized by high energies and by wavelengths that are commensurate with nanometer-sized structures – unlike optical...
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Some Important Aspects of the Chemistry of Nanomaterials
Online Presentations | 01 Jul 2008 | Contributor(s):: C.N.R. Rao
Keynote address for the launch of the Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development.
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BNC Research Review: Carbon Nanotubes as Nucleic Acid Carriers
Online Presentations | 04 Jun 2008 | Contributor(s):: Don Bergstrom
This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming year.
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Nano Carbon: From ballistic transistors to atomic drumheads
Online Presentations | 14 May 2008 | Contributor(s):: Paul L. McEuen
Carbon takes many forms, from precious diamonds to lowly graphite. Surprisingly, it is the latter that is the most prized by nano physicists. Graphene, a single layer of graphite, can serve as an impenetrable membrane a single atom thick. Rolled up into a nanometer-diameter cylinder--a carbon...
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Carbon Nanotechnology: Scientific and Technological Issues
Online Presentations | 24 Feb 2008 | Contributor(s):: Joe Lyding
Carbon nanotechnologies based on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and graphene (a single atomic layer of graphite) are being pursued for a wide range of technological applications ranging from chemical sensing to post-silicon nanoelectronics. A common thread is the need to atomistically...
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Selected Properties of Carbon Nanostructures: from Exotic Fullerenes to Nanotubes
Online Presentations | 30 Mar 2008 | Contributor(s):: Manfred M. Kappes
The talk presents results from ongoing projects in the field of carbonnanostructures: (i) Mass selected ion beam soft-landing has been usedto generate exotic fullerene materials comprising covalent linked,non-IPR cages. Apart from microscopic structure, we have studiedthermal and electronic...