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• 8.8 Ranking Rotello: Nanoparticles in Biology and ...

  Nanoparticles in Biology and Materials: Engineering the Interface through Synthesis

  Type	Online Presentations
  Contributor(s)	Vincent Rotello
  Date	29 Jan. 2007
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  Monolayer-protected nanoparticles provide versatile tools for nanotechnology. In our research, we use these nanoparticles as building blocks for the creation of functional magnetic and electronic nanocomposite materials. Simultaneously, we are using these particles as scaffolds for ...

• 8.3 Ranking Neaton: MCW07 Electronic Level Alignment ...

  MCW07 Electronic Level Alignment at Metal-Molecule Contacts with a GW Approach

  Type	Online Presentations
  Contributor(s)	Jeffrey B. Neaton
  Date	05 Sep. 2007
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  Most recent theoretical studies of electron transport in single-molecule junctions rely on a Landauer approach, simplified to treat electron-electron interactions at a mean-field level within density functional theory (DFT). While this framework has proven relatively accurate for certain systems, ...

• 8.1 Ranking Cola: Highly Efficient Thermal ...

  Highly Efficient Thermal Transport: The Application of Carbon Nanotube Array Interfaces

  Type	Online Presentations
  Contributor(s)	Baratunde A. Cola
  Date	01 Feb. 2007
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  Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have received much attention in recent years for their extraordinary properties that through careful engineering may be leverage for the development of numerous advantageous applications. However, to date, only few CNT based applications exist in the market place. So when ...

• 8.1 Ranking Zemlyanov: Introduction to X-ray ...

  Introduction to X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and XPS Application for Biologically Related Objects

  Type	Online Presentations
  Contributor(s)	Dmitry Zemlyanov
  Date	26 Feb. 2007
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  X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), which is known as Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA), is a powerful research tool for the study of the surface of solids. The technique becomes widely used for studies of the properties of atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces. The main ...

• 7.9 Ranking Schwegler: Excellence in Computer Simulation: ...

  Excellence in Computer Simulation: Computational Materials

  Type	Online Presentations
  Contributor(s)	Eric Schwegler
  Date	20 Dec. 2007
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  This presentation was one of 13 presentations in the one-day forum, "Excellence in Computer Simulation," which brought together a broad set of experts to reflect on the future of computational science and engineering.

• 7.5 Ranking Wei: Plasmon-resonant Nanorods as ...

  Plasmon-resonant Nanorods as Multifunctional Imaging Agents

  Type	Online Presentations
  Contributor(s)	Alexander Wei
  Date	28 Dec. 2006
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  Gold nanorods have several outstanding characteristics as optical contrast agents for biomedical imaging. Their strong optical absorption at near-infrared (NIR) frequencies can be used to generate contrast for optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging, and is well matched for ...

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