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Control of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Nanoscale Manipulation of Fluids and Materials
Last Updated Date: 10/12/2012 Scientists and engineers currently have a growing library of synthetic microscale and nanoscale swimmers which affect the hydrodynamics of their … more
Fate of Nanoparticles in Neural Environments
Last Updated Date: 10/12/2012 Our goal is to develop an advanced in vitro system for nano-neurotoxicology that employs neural progenitor cells and tissue-engineering hydrogels. … more
Nanotube Quality Control
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012 Our goal is to develop new methods to rapidly screen bulk carbon nanotubes for chemical purity and homogeneity. The different synthesis routes … more
Diffraction Metrology and Standards
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012 Our objective is the development of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) and quantitative, reproducible, and accurate measurement methods for … more
Thin Film X-Ray Reflectometry
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012 Our goal is to develop Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) and quantitative, reproducible X-ray reflectometry (XRR) data analysis methods to … more
Theory of Transport in Graphene
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, is one of the most likely materials to produce the next breakthrough in the electronics … more
Microscopy Methods
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 This project is developing means of quantitatively measuring chemical distributions in three dimensions at the nanometer scale in materials with … more
COMPLETED: Nanoscale Thermal Properties Project
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 Our goal is to develop measurement techniques to characterize the changes in thermal transport and thermal transition temperatures in polymeric … more
COMPLETED: Combinatorial Approaches to Thin Film Nanomaterials
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 Our goal is to develop combinatorial library approaches for measuring and optimizing the effect of substrate chemical functionalization on the … more
COMPLETED: Macromolecule and Nanoparticle Composition and Architecture
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 We develop quantitative methods for the analysis of macromolecules having complex architectures and nanoparticles having organic functionalities. … more
Membranes for Clean Water
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 The goal of this project is to develop quantitative measurement methods for determining the structure, dynamics, and mechanical properties of … more
Fundamentals of Deformation
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 This project provides new measurement methods, property data and simulations for areas critical to US manufacturing, describing the mechanisms … more
Magnetic Nanoparticle Metrology
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 We are developing best practice metrology for characterization of magnetic nanoparticle systems (e.g. blocking temperature, anisotropy, property … more
Magnetic Nanostructures for post-CMOS Electronics
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 Our goal is to address the metrology of magnetic effects at the nanoscale level. Nanomagnet arrays form the basis for major data storage … more
Dimensional Metrology for Nanofabrication
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 Our goal is to develop measurements that quantify the shape, size, orientation, and fidelity of nanoscale patterns as a platform to quantitatively … more |
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