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Highly Efficient Thermal Transport: The Application of Carbon Nanotube Array Interfaces
Online Presentations | 01 Feb 2007 | Contributor(s):: Baratunde A. Cola
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...
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Nanoparticles in Biology and Materials: Engineering the Interface through Synthesis
Online Presentations | 29 Jan 2007 | Contributor(s):: Vincent Rotello
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 biomolecular...
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Plasmon-resonant Nanorods as Multifunctional Imaging Agents
Online Presentations | 28 Dec 2006 | Contributor(s):: Alexander Wei
Gold nanorods have several outstanding characteristics as optical contrastagents for biomedical imaging. Their strong optical absorption atnear-infrared (NIR) frequencies can be used to generate contrast for opticalcoherence tomography (OCT) imaging, and is well matched for detectionmodalities...
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Nanofluidics
Online Presentations | 15 Jun 2004 | Contributor(s):: Susan Sinnott
Nanofluidics