Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Evaluation of the Mechanical Properties of CNT Based Composites Using Hexagonal RVE
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess extremely high stiffness, strength, and resilience, and may provide ultimate reinforcing materials for the development of nanocomposites. In this paper, the effective ... -
Dynamic Analysis of a Clamped Wavy Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Based Nanomechanical Sensors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)This paper deals with the dynamic analysis of carbon nanotube with surface deviation along its axis. The type of carbon nanotube used in this analysis is a single-walled carbon nanotube that ... -
Dielectric Properties of Electrospun PVP and PAN Nanocomposite Fibers at Various Temperatures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Dielectric properties of electrospun polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanocomposite fibers were determined as a function of temperature and concentration in order to explore ... -
Engineering Nanorobots: Chronology of Modeling Flagellar Propulsion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Nanorobots are propitious to swim or fly compared with crawling and walking because of issues with desirable characteristics of high velocity, efficiency, specificity, controllability, and a simple ... -
Nanotechnology Applications in Vascular Disease
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)The confluence of nanotechnology and medicine: Nanomedicine is poised to revolutionize the delivery of health care to individuals and populations in the 21st century. Every medical specialty ... -
Multifractal Spectra of INGaN/GaN Self-Assembled Quantum Dots Films
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)The surface shape and microstructure of semiconductor thin films, especially nanometer thin films, have important influence to construct physical characteristics, such as electricity, magnetic, and ... -
Vibration Response Analysis of Doubly Clamped Single Walled Wavy Carbon Nanotube Based Nanomechanical Sensors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)In this paper, the vibration signature of straight and wavy single walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) doubly clamped at a source and a drain has been analyzed and is used to represent single ... -
A Distinct Catabolic to Anabolic Threshold Due to Single-Cell Static Nanomechanical Stimulation in a Cartilage Biokinetics Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Understanding physicochemical interactions during biokinetic regulation will be critical for the creation of relevant nanotechnology supporting cellular and molecular engineering. The impact of ... -
Optimization Based Geometric Modeling of Nano/Micro Scale Ion Milling of Organic Materials for Multidimensional Bioimaging
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Focused ion beam (FIB) instruments have recently started to be seen in applications to organic materials such as polymers and biological samples. FIB provides a novel tool for sectioning ... -
Mechanical Property Enhancement of Nanocomposite Microstructures Generated by Two Photon Polymerization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)The mechanical properties of nanofiber reinforced polymer microstructures were investigated in this work by means of nanoindentation. The femtosecond laser was used to generate nanofibers on ... -
Analysis of Crack Propagation in Fixed-Free Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Under Tensile Loading Using XFEM
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Fracture mechanics at the nanoscale level is a very complex phenomenon, whereas the macroscale fracture mechanics approach can be employed for nanoscale to simulate the effect of fracture in ... -
A Novel Method to Attenuate Protein Adsorption Using Combinations of Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) Grafts and Piezoelectric Actuation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)An antifouling treatment based on the combined effects of grafted polyethylene glycol (PEG) polymers and the application of vibration is reported. A gold-coated lead zirconate titanate piezoelectric ... -
Toward Distinct Element Method Simulations of Carbon Nanotube Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)We propose distinct element method modeling of carbon nanotube systems. The atomic-level description of an individual nanotube is coarse-grained into a chain of spherical elements that interact ... -
Stable Flexible Electrodes With Enzyme Cluster Decorated Carbon Nanotubes for Glucose-Driven Power Source in Biosensing Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Over the years, implantable sensor technology has found many applications in healthcare. Research projects have aimed at improving power supply lifetime for longevity of an implanted sensor system. ... -
Holographically Fabricated Dye-Doped Nanoporous Polymers as Matrix for Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)We report laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry using a dye-doped nanoporous polymer matrix. The nanoporous polymer matrix was fabricated through a holographic interference patterning technique. ... -
Biocompatibility and Delivery of NGF by Hematite Nanotubes for Differentiation of PC12 Cells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)This report discusses the compatibility of hematite nanotubes with PC12 cells and the use of these hematite nanotubes to deliver nerve growth factor (NGF) for the differentiation and growth of ...