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Northwestern University Initiative for Teaching Nanoscience
Tools | 12 Aug 2008 | Contributor(s):: Baudilio Tejerina
This package allows users to study and analyze of molecular properties using various electronic structure methods.
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Nanomaterials in Biosensing Using Ion Selective Field Effect Transistors and Metal Particles
Online Presentations | 30 Jul 2008 | Contributor(s):: Nalam Madhusudhana Rao
The multifunctionality, multilayerable architechture and size of nanomaterials offer tremendous opportunities in developing sensing platforms. Ion Selective Field Effect Transistors (ISFET) are solid state and robust pH/ion sensing devices with excellent “voltage vs. ion concentration”...
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Nanobiotechnology – a different perspective
Online Presentations | 22 Jul 2008 | Contributor(s):: Murali Sastry
The study of the synthesis, exotic properties, assembly/packaging and potential commercial application of nanomaterials is an extremely important topic of research that is expected to have far-reaching global impact. The focus of my talk will be on an emerging branch of nanotechnology that...
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Strategies for Preparation and Manufacture of Polymer-based Nanoparticulate Formulations
Online Presentations | 21 Jul 2008 | Contributor(s):: Stephen R. Byrn
Nanoparticles hold great promise for drug delivery applications. Several polymer-based formulations containing nanoparticles are in late phase development or on the market. In fact, polymer dispersions provide one of the best methods to prepare nanoparticles of small-molecule organic drugs....
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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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Basics of Particle Adhesion
Online Presentations | 21 May 2008 | Contributor(s):: Stephen P. Beaudoin
This presentation will describe the adhesion of rough, asymmetric particles with micro- to nano-scale dimension to solid surfaces. These adhesion processes are of great interest in microelectronics and pharmaceutical manufacturing. The presentation will include experimental and theoretical and...
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Bionanotechnology: a different perspective
Online Presentations | 30 Apr 2008 | Contributor(s):: Murali Sastry
The study of the synthesis, exotic properties, assembly/packaging and potential commercial application of nanomaterials is an extremely important topic of research that is expected to have far-reaching global impact. The focus of my talk will be on an emerging branch of nanotechnology that...
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MD Simulation
Tools | 31 Mar 2008 | Contributor(s):: Sanket S Mahajan, Ganesh Subbarayan, Xufeng Wang
Code to perform Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations
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Nanoelectronic Modeling: Multimillion Atom Simulations, Transport, and HPC Scaling to 23,000 Processors
Online Presentations | 07 Mar 2008 | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
Future field effect transistors will be on the same length scales as “esoteric” devices such as quantum dots, nanowires, ultra-scaled quantum wells, and resonant tunneling diodes. In those structures the behavior of carriers and their interaction with their environment need to be fundamentally...
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CNDO/INDO
Tools | 09 Oct 2007 | Contributor(s):: Baudilio Tejerina, Jeff Reimers
Semi-empirical Molecular Orbital calculations.
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Dynamics on the Nanoscale: Time-domain ab initio studies of quantum dots, carbon nanotubes and molecule-semiconductor interfaces
Online Presentations | 31 Jan 2008 | Contributor(s):: Oleg Prezhdo
Device miniaturization requires an understanding of the dynamical response of materials on the nanometer scale. A great deal of experimental and theoretical work has been devoted to characterizing the excitation, charge, spin, and vibrational dynamics in a variety of novel materials, including...
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Nanosphere Optics Lab Field Simulator
Tools | 09 Aug 2007 | Contributor(s):: Baudilio Tejerina, Tyler Takeshita, Logan Ausman, George C. Schatz
Study of the Electric field induced by Light-Nanoparticle interaction.
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Robert J. Moon
Dr. Robert Moon is a Materials Research Engineer with the US Forest Service- Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue...
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An Experimentalists’ Perspective
Online Presentations | 19 Dec 2007 | Contributor(s):: Arunava Majumdar
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.
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KIST/PU Ligand-functionalized gold nanorods as theragnostic agents
Online Presentations | 06 Dec 2007 | Contributor(s):: Alexander Wei
Plasmon-resonant gold nanorods have been examined as multifunctional agents for imaging and photoactivated therapies. Nanorods can be imaged with single-particle sensitivity by two-photon luminescence (TPL) when excited by fs-pulsed laser irradiation, and have been monitored in vivo while passing...
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BME 695N Lecture 15: Nanodelivery of therapeutic genes & molecular biosensor feedback control systems
Online Presentations | 30 Oct 2007 | Contributor(s):: James Leary
Outline:Introduction and overviewSome of the advantages of therapeutic genesSome of the advantages of molecular biosensor feedback control systemsWhy a nanodelivery approach is appropriateThe therapeutic gene approachWhat constitutes a "therapeutic gene" ?Transient versus stable expression...
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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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KIST/PU Multi-Component, Multi-Functional Nanomedical Systems for Drug/Gene Delivery
Online Presentations | 23 Oct 2007 | Contributor(s):: James Leary
In this brief paper we describe some of our recent efforts to construct multi-component, multi-functional nanomedical systems for delivery of therapeutic genes. We first describe the general philosophy of our approach. Then we describe three specific aspects of the overall construction in simple...
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KIST/PU Tumor-Homing Chitosan-Based Nanoparticles for Cancer Theragnosis; Imaging, Drug Delivery and Therapy
Online Presentations | 23 Oct 2007 | Contributor(s):: Ick Chan Kwon
We have prepared self-assembled polymeric drug carriers containing fluorophore and loaded drugs for theragnostic imaging of tumors. This new type of polymeric drug carriers visualizes the accumulation of carriers at tumor sites, and evaluates therapeutic efficacies, and thereby providing an...
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BME 695N Lecture 11: Construction of biomolecule conjugated nanoparticles
Online Presentations | 30 Sep 2007 | Contributor(s):: Don Bergstrom
With Donald E. Bergstrom as guest lecturer.