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ZENO
Tools | 16 Nov 2016 | Contributor(s):: Derek Juba, Debra Audus, Michael Mascagni, Jack Douglas, Walid Keyrouz
Calculation of hydrodynamic, electrical, and shape properties of polymer and particle suspensions
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Silver Nanoparticle Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Bacterial Growth
Teaching Materials | 09 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Pennsylvania State University, NNCI Nano
Students will learn about the differences in physical propoerties at the nanoscale as compared to the same materials at the macroscale. The students will demonstrate the appropriate use of a spectrophotometer and will convert between different units of measurement. This unit assists students in...
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Making a Liquid Crystal Thermometer
Teaching Materials | 06 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Rano Sidhu, NNCI Nano
Liquid crystals are matter that has properties between those of a liquid and a solid. Liquid crystals may flow like a liquid but have crystals like a solid.colors of the objects are Color is the outcome of various light properties: absorption, refraction, or reflection. In the case of liquid...
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Dancing Magnets - Ferrofluids Lab
Teaching Materials | 28 Dec 2016 | Contributor(s):: SHINE Project, SHINE Project
This lab consists of activities designed to teach students about ferrofluids and how nanotechnology can be used to modify the properties of magnetic materials. The entire bundle can be downloaded by clicking on the download link in the upper right or compontents can be individually...
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Stacking Fault Energy Demo
Tools | 15 Dec 2016 | Contributor(s):: Martin Hunt
Demonstration: Stacking Fault Energy Calculation Notebook
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Complex Oxides and the Philosopher’s Stone
Online Presentations | 25 May 2016 | Contributor(s):: Shiram Ramanathan
In this talk I will discuss the topic of insulator-metal transitions in strongly correlated oxides, their control via disorder, orbital occupancy and electric fields and challenges these systems pose to our contemporary understanding of emergent phenomena in ionic lattices.
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Nanomaterial Registry: present and future
Online Presentations | 03 Sep 2015 | Contributor(s):: Alexander Tropsha
The Nanomaterial Registry is a data-driven tool aimed at enabling researchers to close this knowledge gap. As researchers interact with the information in this central data repository, knowledge will be extracted and used to guide new research and, ultimately, the safe use of nanomaterials....
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Nanotechnology Principles Lab: Basic Principles
Teaching Materials | 07 Dec 2015 | Contributor(s):: SHINE Project, SHINE Project
This lab consists of demonstrations designed to teach students of any age about nanotechnology principles. Labs include Scale and Size, Thin Films, Ferrofluid, Magic Sand, Memory Wire, and Liquid Crystals. They can be used individually or in conjunction with each other. Most of the materials can...
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Nanotechnology Principles Kit: Nano Demos
Teaching Materials | 05 Dec 2015 | Contributor(s):: SHINE Project, SHINE Project
The activities described below are short demonstrations designed to teach students of any age about nanotechnology principles.
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DFT Material Properties Simulator
Tools | 21 Jul 2015 | Contributor(s):: Gustavo Javier, Usama Kamran, David M Guzman, Alejandro Strachan, Peilin Liao, Robert Joseph Appleton
Compute electronic and mechanical properties of materials from DFT calculations with 1-Click
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Nanomaterial Registry
Data Exploration | 06 Mar 2015 | Contributor(s):: NanomaterialRegistry
This project has been retired.
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IMA 2013 UQ: Bayesian Calibration of Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Composite Materials Properties
Online Presentations | 10 Feb 2014 | Contributor(s):: Paul N. Patrone
In this talk, I discuss ongoing research whose goal is to determine, via Bayesian inference, an ensemble of inputs that represents a class of commercially important amine-cured epoxies. We construct an analytical approximation (i.e. a surrogate or emulator) of the simulations, treating the input...
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IMA 2013 UQ: Foam Property Prediction from Process Modeling
Online Presentations | 10 Feb 2014
We are developing computational models to elucidate the injection, expansion, and dynamic filling process for polyurethane foam such as PMDI. The polyurethane is a chemically blown foam, where carbon dioxide is produced via reaction of water, the blowing agent, and isocyanate. In a competing...
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Thermoelectric Power Generator System Optimization and Cost Analysis
Tools | 26 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s):: Kaz Yazawa, Kevin Margatan, Je-Hyeong Bahk, Ali Shakouri
Simulate cost and efficiency trade-off of a thermoelectric device as a function of material properties and heat transfer coefficients
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Buckypaper
Presentation Materials | 16 Apr 2013 | Contributor(s):: shaheen goel
the presentation gives a basic idea about the buckypaper and give breif details about the synthesis properties and applications of buckypaper
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[Illinois] CSE Seminar Series: Advances in First-principles Computational Materials Science
Online Presentations | 20 Nov 2012 | Contributor(s):: Elif Ertekin
Title: Advances in first-principles computational materials science Subtitle: Things we can calculate now, that we couldn't when I was in grad school. The capability to rationally design new materials with tailored properties and functionality on a computer remains a grand challenge whose...
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Carbon NanoTubes: Structure - Properties - Applications
Teaching Materials | 18 Mar 2012 | Contributor(s):: Yuri A Kruglyak
Presentation slides for seminar given for students of Faculty of Computer Sciences of Odessa State Environmental University, Ukraine by Prof. Yuri Kruglyak on May 22, 2008.
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In-situ carbon nanotube tensile test
Animations | 07 Oct 2011 | Contributor(s):: Brian Demczyk
This represents the first in-situ tensile test observed in a transmission electron microscope.
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Magnetic properties of magnetron sputtered Co-Cr thin films
Papers | 07 Oct 2011 | Contributor(s):: Brian Demczyk, J. O. Artman
The magnetic properties 01 magnetron sputtered CO-22 at.% Cr films of various thickness deposited on glass have been examined, with particular attentionto the various contributions to the film anisotropy
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Direct mechanical measurement of the tensile strength and elastic modulus of multiwalled carbon nanotubes
Papers | 07 Oct 2011 | Contributor(s):: Brian Demczyk, Y.M. Wang, J. Cumings, M. Hetman, W. Han, A. Zettl. R. O. Ritchie
This work represents the first in-situ measurenment of the tensile strength of a carbon nanotuube.