Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine: Recent submissions
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Creation of Highly Defined Mesenchymal Stem Cell Patterns in Three Dimensions by Laser Assisted Bioprinting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Bioprinting is a technology that allows making complex tissues from the bottomup. The need to control accurately both the resolution of the printed droplet and the precision of its positioning was reported. Using a bioink ... -
Three Dimensional Printing Based Hybrid Manufacturing of Microfluidic Devices
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Microfluidic platforms offer revolutionary and practical solutions to challenging problems in biology and medicine. Even though traditional micro/nanofabrication technologies expedited the emergence of the microfluidics ... -
Discussion: “A Review and Parametric Investigation Into Nanofluid Viscosity Models†(Nwosu, P. N., Meyer, J., and Sharifpur, M., 2014, ASME J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med., 5(3), p. 031008)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Nwosu et al. [1] mentioned the empirical model of Maأ¯ga et al. [2] for ethylene glycol (EG)–خ³Al2O3 nanofluid. It should be noted that Nwosu et al. [1] did not mention the empirical model of Maأ¯ga et al. [2] for ... -
Scaffold Based or Scaffold Free Bioprinting: Competing or Complementing Approaches?
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Bioprinting is an emerging technology to fabricate artificial tissues and organs through additive manufacturing of living cells in a tissuesspecific pattern by stacking them layer by layer. Two major approaches have been ... -
A Novel Suspended Hydrogel Membrane Platform for Cell Culture
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Current cellculture is largely performed on synthetic twodimensional (2D) petri dishes or permeable supports such as Boyden chambers, mostly because of their ease of use and established protocols. It is generally accepted ... -
Multimaterial and Multiscale Three Dimensional Bioprinter
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)We have developed a threedimensional (3D) bioprinting system capable of multimaterial and multiscale deposition to enable the next generation of “bottomup†tissue engineering. This area of research resides at the ... -
Biofabrication of Multimaterial Three Dimensional Constructs Embedded With Patterned Alginate Strands Encapsulating PC12 Neural Cell Lines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this study, we report the bioprinting of a threedimensional (3D) heterogeneous conduit structure encapsulating PC12 neural cells. A core–shellbased hybrid construct is fabricated by combining electrospinning, polymer ... -
Alginate Microspheroid Encapsulation and Delivery of MG 63 Cells Into Polycaprolactone Scaffolds: A New Biofabrication Approach for Tissue Engineering Constructs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Scaffolds play an important role in tissue engineering by providing structural framework and a surface for cells to attach, proliferate, and secrete extracellular matrix (ECM). In order to enable efficient tissue formation, ... -
Hybrid Tissue Engineering Scaffolds by Combination of Three Dimensional Printing and Cell Photoencapsulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Threedimensional (3D) printing offers versatile possibilities for adapting the structural parameters of tissue engineering scaffolds. However, it is also essential to develop procedures allowing efficient cell seeding ... -
Size Dependent Nanoparticle Uptake by Endothelial Cells in a Capillary Flow System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)An in vitro cell culture system is developed for studying the uptake characteristics of nanoparticles (NPs) by endothelial cells under shear stress. Results show that the smaller polystyrene nanospheres are uptaken more ... -
Microwave Properties of Nanocomposites: Effect of Manufacturing Methods and Nanofiller Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Nanocomposite materials filled with multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) having three types of structures, i.e., longer (200 خ¼m), shorter (20–50 خ¼m), and aminated (20–50 خ¼m), are manufactured for microwave ... -
Metal Oxide Nanopowder Production by Evaporation–Condensation Using a Focused Microwave Radiation at a Frequency of 24 GHz
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The new method for metal oxide nanopowder production is proposed. It is the evaporation–condensation using a focused microwave radiation. The source of microwaves is technological gyrotron with frequency of 24 GHz and ... -
Special Issue on Three Dimensional Bioprinting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Additive manufacturing, or commonly known as threedimensional (3D) printing, is a layerbylayer manufacturing approach enabling fabrication of highly complex objects made of plastics, ceramics, metals, composites, and other ... -
Nanoscale Flow, by Sarhan M. Musa, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2013
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Nanotechnology is the actual advent in the present scientific world. The concept of nanoscale can be useful in several aspects. The focus on the “flow†which is the basic knowledge in fluid dynamics is important. ... -
Statistical Mechanics Transport Model of Magnetic Drug Targeting in Permeable Microvessel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A transport model of magnetic drug carrier particles (MDCPs) in permeable microvessel based on statistical mechanics has been developed to investigate capture efficiency (CE) of MDCPs at the tumor position. CassonNewton ... -
Nanostructured Aluminum Oxide Black Coating: Electrochemical, Mechanical, and Optical Characterizations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Nanoporous anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) template is continuously investigated since it is vital for producing a variety of promised nanomaterial. In this study, two steps anodization of aluminum working electrode was ... -
Visualization and Motion of Curcumin Loaded Iron Oxide Nanoparticles During Magnetic Drug Targeting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Magnetic drug targeting (MDT) involves the localization of drug loaded iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) around the malignant tissue using external magnetic field for therapeutic purposes. The present in vitro study reports ... -
Porous Silicon Morphology: Photo Electrochemically Etched by Different Laser Wavelengths
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Porous silicon (PS) has become the focus of attention in upgrading silicon for optoelectronics. In this work, various structures were produced depending on the formation parameters by photoelectrochemical etching (PECE) ... -
Flexible Cellulose Based Films of Polyaniline–Graphene–Silver Nanowire for High Performance Supercapacitors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)We report a facile fabrication of a highperformance supercapacitor (SC) using a flexible cellulosebased composite film of polyaniline (PANI), reduced graphene oxide (RGO), and silver nanowires (AgNWs). The flexibility, ... -
Microwave Absorbing Properties of Lightweight Nanocomposite/Honeycomb Sandwich Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Thin glassfiber/epoxycomposite sheets filled with multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are manufactured to make lightweight honeycomb sandwich microwave absorbers. A multilayered sandwich structure of thin nanocomposite ...