The ability of nano secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS) to locate and analyze Raman active gold core nanoparticles (R-AuNPs) in a biological system is compared with the standard analysis using the scanning elec...
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The ability of nano secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS) to locate and analyze Raman active gold core nanoparticles (R-AuNPs) in a biological system is compared with the standard analysis using the scanning electron microscope (SEM). The same cell with R-AuNPs on and inside the macrophage was analyzed with both techniques to directly compare them. SEM analysis showed a large number of nanoparticles within the cell. Subsequent NanoSIMS analysis showed fewer R-AuNPs with lower spatial resolution. SEM was determined to be superior to NanoSIMS for the analysis of inorganic nanoparticles in complex biological systems.
Graphene reveals many extraordinary properties including extremely high room temperature carrier mobility and intrinsic thermal conductivity. Understanding how to controllably modify graphene's properties is essen...
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The Transition metal oxides such as TiO2 and CeO2 as catalyst and co-catalyst materials were studied for methanol oxidation. The metal oxide nanoparticles were impregnated into carbon aerogel and Pt-Ru/C (Tanaka) by m...
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The Transition metal oxides such as TiO2 and CeO2 as catalyst and co-catalyst materials were studied for methanol oxidation. The metal oxide nanoparticles were impregnated into carbon aerogel and Pt-Ru/C (Tanaka) by modified sol-gel Pechini method and heat-treated at different temperatures. Crystal structure, particle size and composition of the catalyst particles were studied using XRD, TEM and EDS techniques. The electrochemical activity and stability of these catalyst materials were studied in acidic medium and the results were compared to their corresponding specific and active surface areas. The aerogel supported metal oxides were stable and proved for better methanol oxidation, while a significant synergetic effect in electro-oxidation is observed when the metal oxides were impregnated into the structure of Pt-Ru/C catalyst. The methanol-oxidation was further improved after heat treatment due to its improved structural and surface properties.
This work aims to design, fabricate, and characterize a micro-patterned surface that will be integrated into microfluidic devices to enhance particle and rare cell capture efficiency. Capture of ultralow concentration...
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This work aims to design, fabricate, and characterize a micro-patterned surface that will be integrated into microfluidic devices to enhance particle and rare cell capture efficiency. Capture of ultralow concentration of circulating tumor cells in a blood sample is of vital importance for early diagnostics of cancer diseases. Despite the significant progress achieved in development of cell capture techniques, the enhancement in capture efficiency is still limited and often accompanied with drawbacks such as low throughput, low selectivity, pre-diluting requirement, and cell viability issues. The goal of this work is to design a biomimetic surface that could significantly enhance particle/cell capture efficacy through computational modeling, surface patterning, and microfluidic integration and testing. A PDMS surface with microscale ripples is functionalized with epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) antibody to capture prostate cancer PC3 cells. Our microfluidic chip with micropatterns has shown significantly higher cell capture efficiency and selectivity compared to the chips with plane surface or classical herringbone-grooves.
We investigated the electrical characteristics and digital data transmission performance few-layer graphene ribbons grown by chemical vapor deposition. Graphene ribbons having a mobility of 2,180 cm2V -1s-1 can sustai...
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An in-house constructed Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition(PECVD)facility was used in this study to facilitate the surface chemistry improvement on High Density Polyethylene(HDPE)sheets and allow an increas...
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An in-house constructed Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition(PECVD)facility was used in this study to facilitate the surface chemistry improvement on High Density Polyethylene(HDPE)sheets and allow an increase in adhesion of copper thin films on HDPE *** material’s wet ability and polymer-metal adhesive strength are compared before and after plasma treatment to understand the creation and rearrangement of the functional groups present on the surface of H and O ion irradiated HDPE *** showed the detection of O-H,C≡C,C═C and C-O bonds on the surface of the irradiated samples.H ion irradiated sheets,however,showed no surface chemical functionality changes.
Bioactive calcium phosphate (CaP) scaffolds have emerged as synthetic alternatives to bone grafts, acting to target serious fracture healing and bone disease such as osteoporosis. Previous research has shown that thes...
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Bioactive calcium phosphate (CaP) scaffolds have emerged as synthetic alternatives to bone grafts, acting to target serious fracture healing and bone disease such as osteoporosis. Previous research has shown that these bioceramic materials due to their osteoinductive and biocompatible properties can potentially induce bone formation from the surrounding native tissue. Sintering temperature of CaP scaffolds has been shown to influence the microstructure and properties;however, a comprehensive study to determine the influence of sintering temperature on CaP scaffolds has yet to be performed. Thus, the objective of this work was to determine the microstructural properties of an injection molded CaP scaffold based on the crystallographic phases and grain arrangement for different sintering temperatures. The CaP scaffolds were fabricated using tricalcium phosphate and sintered at three different target temperatures. The microstructural and mechanical properties were characterized by different techniques such as: X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy with associated energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and micro-hardness. It was found that grain size, degree of density, crystallite size, and microhardness increased with increasing sintering temperature;whereas, the crystallographic and the Ca/P atomic ratio did not vary for a sintering temperature range of 950-1150°C. These results support the design and fabrication of bioceramic scaffolds with controlled microstructural properties to provide structural integrity and encourage bone ingrowth.
Active elastomeric liquid crystal particles with initial cylindrical shapes are obtained by means of soft lithography and polymerization in a strong magnetic field. Gold nanocrystals infiltrated into these particles m...
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Active elastomeric liquid crystal particles with initial cylindrical shapes are obtained by means of soft lithography and polymerization in a strong magnetic field. Gold nanocrystals infiltrated into these particles mediate energy transfer from laser light to heat, so that the inherent coupling between the temperature-dependent order and shape allows for dynamic morphing of these particles and well-controlled stable shapes. Continuous changes of particle shapes are followed by their spontaneous realignment and transformations of director structures in the surrounding cholesteric host, as well as locomotion in the case of a nonreciprocal shape morphing. These findings bridge the fields of liquid crystal solids and active colloids, may enable shape-controlled self-assembly of adaptive composites and light-driven micromachines, and can be understood by employing simple symmetry considerations along with electrostatic analogies.
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