Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine: Recent submissions
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Modeling of Transient Transport of Soluble Proteins in the Connecting Cilium of a Photoreceptor Cell
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)A minimal mathematical model describing mass transport in the connecting cilium (CC) of a photoreceptor cell in response to a suddenly increased protein concentration at the base of the CC is ... -
Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Enhancement Through Nanostructures on Silicon Microchannels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Uniform silicon nanowires (SiNW) were successfully fabricated on the top, bottom, and sidewall surfaces of silicon microchannels by using a two-step electroless etching process. Different microchannel ... -
Guest Editorial for the Special Issue on Micro/Nanoscale Transport Phenomena
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Before the advent of the ubiquitous term “nanotechnology” in the scientific literature, study of microscale transport phenomena (e.g., boiling on microstructured surfaces) and nanoscale transport ... -
Solar Energy Harvesting Using Nanofluids-Based Concentrating Solar Collector
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Dispersing trace amounts of nanoparticles into common base-fluids has a significant impact on the optical as well as thermophysical properties of the base-fluid. This characteristic can be utilized ... -
Study of Insulating Properties of Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers Formed Under Prolonged Incubation Using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The electrochemical interfacial properties of a well-ordered self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of 1-undecanethiol (UDT) on evaporated gold surface have been investigated by electrochemical impedance ... -
Micro-Optical Initiation of Nanoenergetic Materials Using a Temporally Tailored Variable-Pulse-Width Laser
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Nanoenergetic materials can provide a significant enhancement in the rate of energy release as compared with microscale materials. The energy-release rate is strongly dependent not only on the ... -
Doubly-Clamped Single Walled Boron Nitride Nanotube Based Nanomechanical Resonators: A Computational Investigation of Their Behavior
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This paper illustrates the dynamic behavior of a doubly-clamped single walled boron nitride nanotube (SWBNNT) as a mass sensor. To this end, a 3-dimensional atomistic model based on molecular ... -
Biodegradable Nanoparticles Surface Modification Techniques With cIBR Peptide Targeting to LFA-1 Expressing Leukemic Cells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The lymphocyte function associated antigen-1 (LFA-1) is evaluated for a targeting carrier in leukemia. The cIBR peptide was utilized as the targeting moiety for the drug carrier in direct ... -
Development of an Oral Curcumin Nanocrystal Formulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)During the last ten years, the formulation of drugs as nanocrystals has rapidly evolved into a mature drug delivery strategy, with currently five products on the market. The major characteristic ... -
Pool Boiling of HFE 7200–C4H4F6O Mixture on Hybrid Micro-Nanostructured Surface
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Steadily increasing heat dissipation in electronic devices has generated renewed interest in direct immersion cooling. The ideal heat transfer fluid for direct immersion cooling applications should ... -
Variation of the Expansion Coefficient of Nanofluids With Temperature: A Correction for Conductivity Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The two constituent phases of the nanofluids have thermal expansion coefficients that are significantly different. Moreover, the variability of the thermal expansion coefficients of fluids with ... -
Measurement of the Thermal Conductivity of Silicon Dioxide Nanofluid and Development of Correlations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Experimental investigations were carried out for the determination of thermal conductivity of silicon dioxide (SiO2) nanoparticles dispersed in 60% ethylene glycol and 40% water by mass. Experiments ... -
Nanotechnology: Ethical and Social Implications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)by A. S. Khan. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2012, 365 pp., $79.95, ISBN: 978-1-4398-5953-7 -
Numerical Simulation of Formation and Distortion of Taylor Cones
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Taylor cones are integral parts in many important applications like electrospinning and electrospray mass spectroscopy. A better understanding of this complex phenomenon of Taylor cone is critical ... -
Mobile Wearable Nano-Bio Health Monitoring Systems With Smartphones as Base Stations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)by V. K. Varadan and L. Chen. ASME, and Momentum Press, LLC, New York, 2012, 80 pp., $89.95, ISBN: 978-0-7918-6006-9 -
e-Nanoflex Sensor System: Smartphone-Based Roaming Health Monitor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The growing need and market demand for point of care (POC) systems to improve patient’s quality of life are driving the development of wireless nanotechnology based smart systems for diagnosis ... -
Surface Chemistry of ZnO Nanowires for Nanosensor Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)In this work, surface modification of ZnO nanowires (NWs) with oleic acid is reported. ZnO NWs were synthesized in a customized chemical vapor deposition furnace and were characterized with ... -
Wireless Passive Sensor for Remote pH Monitoring
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)In this paper we describe a wireless passive pH sensor for high-resolution remote pH monitoring. The sensor is based on a passive LC coil resonator whose resonant frequency is monitored remotely ... -
Vibration of Single- and Double-Layered Graphene Sheets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Free vibration of single- and double-layered graphene sheets is investigated by employing nonlocal continuum theory and molecular dynamics simulations. Results show that the classical elastic model ... -
Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for Manipulating Energy Gain of Nansulate Coating
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)In this work, an extensive experimental data of Nansulate coating from NanoTechInc were applied to develop an artificial neural network (ANN) model. The Levenberg–Marquart algorithm has been used ...