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Thermal Property Measurements of High Pressure Metal Hydrides
Papers | 02 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s):: Scott M. Flueckiger
Metal hydrides are potential materials for onboard hydrogen storage. Thermal property measurements are needed to optimize the thermal management design of metal hydride storage systems which require a measurement technique developed with considerations of the thermodynamics of the hydriding...
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Illinois CNST Annual Nanotechnology Workshop 2010 Lecture 12: Multiscale Analysis of Silicon NEMS
Online Presentations | 02 May 2011 | Contributor(s):: Narayan Aluru
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Oil Spill Flow Calculation Worksheet
Teaching Materials | 18 Feb 2011 | Contributor(s):: Steve Wereley
Worksheet to calculate the approximate flow rate based on video images.
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BP Oil Spill Physics Challenge
Online Presentations | 17 Feb 2011 | Contributor(s):: Steve Wereley
On May 13 Professor Wereley used optical feature tracking to estimate the volume flow of oil from the on-going BP Macondo oil field spill. Several other independent scientists also performed similar measurements at about the same time. These several measurements were all in the ballpark of...
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Measuring Disaster: the magnitude of the BP oil spill
Online Presentations | 09 Nov 2010 | Contributor(s):: Steve Wereley
On May 13 Professor Wereley used optical feature tracking to estimate the volume flow of oil from the on-going BP Macondo oil field spill.
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2009 GEM4 Summer School - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lecture 5: Mechanics insights into the pathophysiology of human disease; Microfluidics approaches to studying human diseases
Online Presentations | 20 Jul 2010 | Contributor(s):: Chwee Teck Lim
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Analyzing Disaster: A nanoscale guy stumbles into a mega problem
Online Presentations | 22 Jun 2010 | Contributor(s):: Steve Wereley
Steve Wereley discusses how his knowledge and use of a technique called particle image velocimetry (PIV) led to a game-changing calculation of a flow rate for the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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2009 GEM4 Summer School - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign : Cellular and Molecular Mechanics with a focus on Enabling Technologies
Workshops | 08 Feb 2010 | Contributor(s):: Rashid Bashir, Taher Saif, Irfan Ahmad, Jimmy K. Hsia
GEMS 4 Summer School Topics: Fundamentals of Cell and Molecular Biology Basics of Mechanics in connection with Biological Systems Mechanotransduction at a distance in a living cell Mechanics insights into the pathophysiology of human disease; Microfluidics approaches to studying human diseases...
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Molecular Sensors for MEMS
Online Presentations | 10 Dec 2009 | Contributor(s):: John P. Sullivan
This seminar will cover the issues involved in using molecular sensors in MEMS and their application to microchannels, supersonic micronozzles, microjet impingement, microturbines and unsteady fluidic actuators.
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Optical BioMEMS Microfluidic Technologies for Hand-Held, Point-of-Care, Medical Devices
Online Presentations | 23 Nov 2009 | Contributor(s):: James Leary
Portable, point-of-care, medical diagnostic devices could provide an important new component in more cost-effective healthcare delivery. Rapid measurements of blood samples during an examination within a doctor’s office or in the field, could allow immediate appropriate treatment of medical...
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Illinois ME 498 Introduction of Nano Science and Technology, Lecture 11: Transport and Electrokenetics in Nanoscale Fluids
Online Presentations | 07 Oct 2009 | Contributor(s):: Nick Fang, Omar N Sobh
Transport and Electrokenetics Topics: Back to Constitutive Equations Coupled Heat and Electron Conduction Thermoelectric Cooling New Directions for Nano-Thermoelectricity State-of-the-Art in Thermoelectrics Hornet Skin: A Natural heat Pump Coupled Charge-Mass Transport in Fluid
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NCN Nano Electro-Mechanical Systems
Wiki
NEMS is an integration of mechanical, electrical, fluidic, optical, chemical, biological and other components. We often think of this integration as occurring on a chip, but self-sensing/actuating...
https://nanohub.org/wiki/NCNNanoElectroMechanicalSystems
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BNC Research Review: The Birck Nanotechnology Center-Progress, Opportunitiees, and Challenges
Online Presentations | 04 Jun 2008 | Contributor(s):: Timothy D. Sands
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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Tutorial for NanogromacsSenior
Online Presentations | 28 Apr 2008 | Contributor(s):: Dairui Chen
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Controlling Membrane Organization: Effects of pH, Ions, and composition
Online Presentations | 23 Mar 2008 | Contributor(s):: Jennifer Hovis
Our main research interests are in determining, at the molecular level, how cell membranes are organized and how that organization relates to function. The primary molecular building blocks of cell membranes are lipids, amphipathic molecules that assemble into two opposed leaflets forming a...
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KIST/PU Phage Display Selection of Tissue-Specific Homing Peptides and their Theragnostic Applications
Online Presentations | 23 Oct 2007 | Contributor(s):: Byung-Heon Lee
Several homing peptides that are specific to tumor cells, artherosclerotic plaques, stroke lesion, apoptotic cells and phosphatidylserine have been isolated by phage display in our laboratory. For example, the Bld-1 peptide is specific to bladder tumor cells and the AP-1 to atherosclerotic...
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Introduction of MEMS Activity at Nano/Micro System Engineering Lab., Kyoto University
Online Presentations | 15 Sep 2007 | Contributor(s):: OSAMU TABATA
We are aiming at the realization of microsystems and nanosystems with novel and unique functions by integrating functional elements in different domains such as mechanics, electronics, chemistry, optics and biotechnology. These micro/nano systems are expected to be novel machines, which will...
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BNC Annual Research Symposium: Bio-Nanotechnology and Biomedical Devices
Online Presentations | 23 Apr 2007 | Contributor(s):: Rashid Bashir
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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REBO
Tools | 24 Jul 2006 | Contributor(s):: Wen-Dung Hsu, SeongJun Heo, jing xu, Susan Sinnott
Reactive Empirical Bond-Order (REBO) potential is a many-body expression optimized for modeling covalently bonded materials, such as carbon and silicon, in large-scale atomistic simulations
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Nanofluidics
Online Presentations | 15 Jun 2004 | Contributor(s):: Susan Sinnott
Nanofluidics