Browsing Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine by Issue Date
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Two-Dimensional Modeling of Nanomechanical Strains in Healthy and Diseased Single-Cells During Microfluidic Stress Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Investigations in cellular and molecular engineering have explored the impact of nanotechnology and the potential for monitoring and control of human diseases. In a recent analysis, the dynamic ... -
Perspective in Nanoneural Electronic Implants With Wireless Power-Feed and Sensory Control
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)New medical device technology is essential for diagnosing, monitoring, and curing wide spectrum of diseases, anomalies, and inflictions. For neural applications, currently available devices are ... -
Heterostructured IrO2/Au Nanowire Electrodes and Unit Recordings From Hippocampal Rat Brain
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)This research presents the development of neural recording electrodes with high sensitivity using nanotechnology and the evaluation of their electrochemical sensing properties. Neural electrodes ... -
Magnetic Nanofilms for Biomedical Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Polymeric ultrathin films, also called nanofilms or nanosheets, show peculiar properties making them potentially useful for several applications in biomedicine, e.g., as nanoplasters for localized ... -
Iron Oxide Magnetic Nanotubes and Their Drug Loading and Release Capabilities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Iron oxide magnetic nanomaterials are among the most widely used nanomaterials in nanomedicine. Due to their magnetic and structural properties, iron oxide magnetic nanotubes are extremely attractive ... -
Magnetic Drug Targeting in Partly Occluded Blood Vessels Using Magnetic Microspheres
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Magnetic drug targeting can be used for treating stenosis and thrombosis in partly occluded blood vessels. Herein, a numerical investigation of magnetic drug targeting using functionalized magnetic ... -
Modeling-Simulation and Analysis of MEMS Capacitive Millibar Pressure Sensor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Design and simulation of MEMS based capacitive sensor with doubly supported serpentine meander structure for millibar pressure applications proposed in this work is analyzed using INTELLISUITE ™ ... -
Vibration of a Multilayered Graphene Sheet With Initial Stress
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)This paper reports an investigation on the vibration of an individual multilayered graphene sheet with initial stress, based on an elastic plate model and membrane model with simply supported ... -
Modeling and Experimental Validation of DNA Motion in Uniform and Nonuniform DC Electric Fields
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)We are developing a new technique to insert foreign DNA into a living cell using a microelectromechanical system. This new technique relies on electrical forces to move DNA in a nonuniform ... -
Nanowire Modification to Enhance the Performance of Neurotransmitter Sensors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)In this work, we have developed a method to modify the platinum (Pt) working electrode with nanowires using vapor-solid-liquid (VLS) mechanism in order to increase the sensitivity of our ... -
Novel Modeling Approach to Generate a Polymeric Nanofiber Scaffold for Salivary Gland Cells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Electrospun nanofibers have been utilized in many biomedical applications as biomimetics of extracellular matrix proteins that promote self-organization of cells into 3D tissue constructs. As ... -
Design and TEM Simulation of a MEMS Based Microcantilever Cardiac Marker Sensor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Piezoresistive actuation of a microcantilever induced by biomolecular binding such as DNA hybridization and antibody-antigen binding is an important principle useful in biosensing applications. As ... -
Magnetic Assisted Transport of PLGA Nanoparticles Through a Human Round Window Membrane Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)The lack of an effective method for inner ear drug delivery is a clinical problem for the prevention and treatment of hearing loss. With technology advances in nanomedicine and the use of ... -
Wireless Point-of-Care Diagnosis for Sleep Disorder With Dry Nanowire Electrodes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Currently, available sleep monitoring systems use electrical recording where the electrodes make contact with the patient’s skin using a conducting gel. The electrode wires are connected to a ... -
Nanoclay Based Composite Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Scaffolds based on chitosan/polygalacturonic acid (ChiPgA) complex containing montmorillonite (MMT) clay modified with 5-aminovaleric acid were prepared using freeze-drying technique. The MMT clay ... -
Integral Medicine: New Methods of Organ-Regeneration by Cellular Encoding Through Path Integrals Applied to the Quantum Medicine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)The integral medicine is a subarea of the alternative medicine that bases its cure methods and preservation of the health on the appropriate canalization of the energy code of the human body ... -
Microcantilever Based Microdiagnostic Kit for Biomedical Applications: A Cost-Benefit Outlook
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Piezoresistive actuation of a microcantilever induced by biomolecular binding such as DNA hybridization and antibody-antigen binding is an important principle useful in biosensing applications. As ... -
Ordered Au Nanodisk and Nanohole Arrays: Fabrication and Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)We have utilized nanosphere lithography (NSL) to fabricate ordered Au nanodisk and nanohole arrays on substrates and have studied the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of the arrays. ... -
Magnetic Drug Targeting in the Permeable Blood Vessel—The Effect of Blood Rheology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)The present investigation deals with finding the trajectories of the drug dosed magnetic carrier particle in a microvessel, which is subjected to the external magnetic field. We consider the ... -
Nanotechnology in Neurosurgery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Clinical neurology and neurosurgery are two fields that face some of the most challenging and exciting problems remaining in medicine. Brain tumors, paralysis after trauma or stroke, and ...