Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine: Recent submissions
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Ultraviolet Crosslinkable and Injectable Chitosan/Hydroxyapatite Hybrid Hydrogel for Critical Size Calvarial Defect Repair In Vivo
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)To promote bone regeneration in vivo using criticalsize calvarial defect model, hybrid hydrogel was prepared by mixing chitosan with hydroxyapatite (HA) and ultraviolet (UV) irradiation in situ. The hydrosoluble, UVcrosslinkable ... -
Protofold II: Enhanced Model and Implementation for Kinetostatic Protein Folding1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A reliable prediction of threedimensional (3D) protein structures from sequence data remains a big challenge due to both theoretical and computational difficulties. We have previously shown that our kinetostatic compliance ... -
Vibrations of Fractal Structures: On the Nonlinearities of Damping by Branching
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)To study the effect of damping due to branching in trees and fractal structures, a harmonic analysis was performed on a finite element model using commercially available software. The model represented a threedimensional ... -
A Splendid Blend of Nanotechnology and Forensic Science
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Nanotechnology, which is being employed in all areas of technology, also finds application in the sector of forensics. It is evident that utilization of this technology will help the criminologists to solve the criminal ... -
Three Dimensional Reconstruction of Blood Vessels of the Human Retina by Fractal Interpolation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this work, data from twodimensional (2D) images of the human retina were taken as a case study. First, the characteristic data points had been removed using the Douglas–Peucker (DP) method, and subsequently, more data ... -
Analyzing Origin of Multifractality of Surface Electromyography Signals in Dynamic Contractions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The aim of this study is to analyze the origin of multifractality of surface electromyography (sEMG) signals during dynamic contraction in nonfatigue and fatigue conditions. sEMG signals are recorded from triceps brachii ... -
The Micro/Nanohybrid Structures Enhancing B35 Cell Guidance on Chitosan
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A novel chitosan scaffold with microand nanohybrid structures was proposed in this study. The hemispheric array of the barrier layer of an anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) film was used as the substrate. Microelectromechanical ... -
Polyacrylamide/GelMA Hydrogel Templates for Breast Cancer Cell Spheroids Fabrication
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Fabrication of cellular spheroids is critical for creating functional tissue units and investigating the mechanism of tumorigenesis, development, and intercellular and cell–matrix interactions in vitro. Herein, we developed ... -
Numerical Analysis of Dental Caries Effect on the Biomechanical Behavior of the Periodontal System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of dental caries on the stability of the periodontal system. This study presents a numerical analysis performed with threedimensional (3D) finite element (FE) method to ... -
Real Time Computational Model of Ball Milled Fractal Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Ball milling (BM) offers a flexible process for nanomanufacturing of reactive bimetallic multiscale particulates (nanoheaters) for selfheated microjoining engineering materials and biomedical tooling. This paper introduces ... -
Improved Thermal Response in Encapsulated Phase Change Materials by Nanotube Attachment on Encapsulating Solid
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This paper demonstrates greatly improved specific power (W/g) for encapsulated phase change materials (EPCM) as a result of modified interface morphology. Carbon nanotubes are strongly attached to the interior walls of the ... -
Methane Storage in Spherical Fullerenes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)In this paper, we investigate methane encapsulation in five spherical fullerenes C60,C240,C540,C960, and C1500. We exploit the 6–12 LennardJones potential function and the continuum approximation to model the surface ... -
Wear of Carbon Nanofiber Reinforced HDPE Nanocomposites Under Dry Sliding Condition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)High density polyethylene (HDPE) is widely used as a bearing material in industrial application because of its low friction and high wear resistance properties. Carbon nanofiber (CNF) reinforced HDPE nanocomposites are ... -
Mechanically Tuning the Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances of Gold Nanostructure Arrays
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)We report the fabrication of metal nanostructures on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate by transferring polystyrene beads onto PDMS substrate followed by metal deposition. Experimentally tuning the plasmon resonance ... -
Mechanics of Ellipsoidal Carbon Onions Inside Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)On the basis of the continuum approximation along with Lennard–Jones potential function, new semianalytical expressions are presented to evaluate the van der Waals interactions between an ellipsoidal fullerene and a ... -
Reversibility of Functional and Structural Changes of Lysozyme Subjected to Hydrodynamic Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)In this initial study, the effect of hydrodynamic flow on lysozyme structure and function was investigated using a microchannel device. Protein was subjected to bubbly cavitation as well as noncavitating flow conditions ... -
Preparation and Mechanico Optical Properties of Ultraviolet Curable Transparent Polyurethane Elastomer Nanocomposites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Nanotechnology is presently seen as one of the most promising approaches in the field of materials science toward the development of advanced materials for future engineering applications. We report on the preparation of ... -
Experimental Study on Mechanical Properties of Epoxy/MWCNT Nanocomposites—Effects of Acid Treatment, Pressured Curing, and Liquid Rubber
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The unique properties of carbon nanotube (CNT) have made it very attractive as reinforcement in polymer nanocomposites in the hope of effectively improving the mechanical properties. In order to explore the effects of three ... -
Modeling of Contact and Stiction in Electrostatic Microcantilever Actuators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)A dynamic model of a microcantilever actuator is developed to simulate the events of contact, impact, stiction, and pulloff from the substrate. The model accounts for geometric, electrostatic, adhesive, and contact ... -
Vibration Analysis of Single Walled Boron Nitride Nanotube Based Nanoresonators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)In this paper, the vibration response analysis of single walled boron nitride nanotubes (SWBNNTs) treated as thin walled tube has been done using finite element method (FEM). The resonant frequencies of fixedfree SWBNNTs ...