Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine: Recent submissions
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Modeling the Instability of Carbon Nanotubes: From Continuum Mechanics to Molecular Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)A hybrid continuum mechanics and molecular mechanics model is developed in this paper to predict the critical strain, stress, and buckling load of the inelastic buckling of carbon nanotubes. ... -
Greetings From the Editor in Chief
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)I am currently the Twenty-First Century Endowed Chair in Nano- and Bio-Technology and Medicine, and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Biomedical ... -
Biocompatible Bacterial Cellulose Composites for Biomedical Application
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)This paper reports bacterial cellulose composites made by blending chitosan, poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), and gelatin for potential biomedical application of tissue-engineering scaffold and wound-dressing ... -
Mechanistic Study of Self-Assembling Peptide RADA16-I in Formation of Nanofibers and Hydrogels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)The biophysical and biochemical properties of RADA16-I, the representative of a class of self-assembling peptides, were studied to elucidate the molecular mechanism of nanofiber and hydrogel ... -
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 ... -
Integrated Double-Sided Neural Sensor With Dry-Etch BCB
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)This paper presents a novel structure for a neural sensor using a surface micromachining technique with dry-etch benzocyclobutene selected as the substrate and packaging material. The finished ... -
Molecular Characterization of Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition in Human Prostatic Epithelial Cells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) has been believed to play a critical role in cancer metastasis. TGFβ has been described as an inducer of EMT in normal mammary epithelial cells by ... -
Development of Carbon Nanotube Based Through-Silicon Vias
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)The design and development of reliable 3D integrated systems require high performance interconnects, which in turn are largely dependent on the choice of filler materials used in through-silicon ... -
Glucose Driven Nanobiopower Cells for Biomedical Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Power supply is an important aspect of micronanobiomedical devices. Implantable devices are required to stay inside of the body for longer period of time to provide continuous monitoring, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Preparation and Characterization of Novel Bacterial Cellulose/Gelatin Scaffold for Tissue Regeneration Using Bacterial Cellulose Hydrogel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Bacterial cellulose (BC) and gelatin are well-known biomaterials. The novel bacterial cellulose/gelatin composite scaffolds were prepared using aqueous gelatin solution and bacterial cellulose excreted ... -
Demonstration of Cancer Cell Migration Using a Novel Microfluidic Device
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Migration of cancer cells from the primary organ site via the bloodstream to distant sites is critical to the development of malignant metastasis and is in part determined by soluble host ... -
Effect of Palmitoyl Nanogold Particles on the Subzero Thermal Properties of Phosphate Buffered Saline Solutions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Extensive studies document the effect of nanoparticles on thermal properties of fluids, such as thermal conductivity, although very few exist at subzero temperatures. The current study reports ... -
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 ...