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High Throughput Nanoimprint Manufacturing of Shape-Specific, Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Nanocarriers for Drug and Imaging Agent Delivery
04 Jan 2011 | Poster | Contributor(s): Patrick Jurney
A significant amount of research has been conducted on the development of hydrogel-based drug delivery systems that have the ability to swell or shrink in the presence of different environmental …
http://nees.org/resources/2078
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Determination of Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Parameters Using Paleoseismic Techniques
04 Jan 2011 | Poster | Contributor(s): Kathryn Anne Gunberg, Russell Green
The main objective of this project is to develop a procedure for determining a magnitude-recurrence relationship for regions of low to moderate seismicity wherein uncertainty is quantified. The …
http://nees.org/resources/2098
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GOALI/Collaborative Research: A Modeling Base for Process Development of Electron Beam Manufacturing
04 Jan 2011 | Poster | Contributor(s): Nathan Klingbeil
Electron Beam Manufacturing (EBM) processes build geometric features by locally melting metal and building it up layer-by-layer. EBM processes offer a wide range of processing options and are of …
http://nees.org/resources/2095
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Antibacterial Silica Nanoparticles Impact on Water Quality: Experiments Involving MF254A, Ralstonia pickettii species, in Ultrapure Water (UPW)
02 Jan 2011 | Poster | Contributor(s): Lisa Jones
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the public is being bombarded with ads for cleansers, soaps, toothbrushes, dishwashing detergents, and hand lotions, all containing …
http://nees.org/resources/1878
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Detection of Residential Regions Using Hyperspectral Imagery
02 Jan 2011 | Poster | Contributor(s): Lin Cong
Remote sensing in recent years has developed great potential for aiding disaster response and management. Traditional spectral-only or spatial-only methods prove ineffective for many hyperspectral …
http://nees.org/resources/1873
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Nano-informatics: Automated morphology analysis of nanoparticles
02 Jan 2011 | Poster | Contributor(s): Chiwoo Park
We present a statistical procedure that can expedite the morphology analysis of nanoparticles. Material scientists have long conjectured that morphology of nanoparticles has a profound impact on the …
http://nees.org/resources/1870
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Probabilistic study of cascading failures in complex interdependent lifeline systems
02 Jan 2011 | Poster | Contributor(s): Isaac David Hernandez-Fajardo
Urban distributed lifelines constitute the backbone of modern cities’ services. These systems depend on each other to serve large urban areas and growing population. Such conditions make them …
http://nees.org/resources/1867
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Measuring Partnership Efficacy in Haitian Disaster Recovery
31 Dec 2010 | Poster | Contributor(s): John Benjamin Coles
On a peaceful Tuesday afternoon, fifty seconds of shaking resulted in the death of over 230,000 people, and left 1.5 million more homeless. On Tuesday, January 12th, 2010, at 4:53 PM, an earthquake …
http://nees.org/resources/1835
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A Universal Computational Method for Optimal Pulse Design in NMR & MRI
31 Dec 2010 | Poster | Contributor(s): Justin Ruths
Many key aspects of control of quantum systems involve manipulating a large quantum ensemble exhibiting variation in the value of parameters characterizing the system dynamics. Developing …
http://nees.org/resources/1838
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Modeling Low-Pressure Flows and Heat Transfer in Pharmaceutical Freeze-Drying
31 Dec 2010 | Poster | Contributor(s): Arnab Ganguly
Freeze-drying is a low-pressure, low-temperature condensation pumping process used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals. The primary goal of the current work is to setup a comprehensive modeling …
http://nees.org/resources/1842
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Synthesis and Characterization of P3HT-based Thin Films for Photocurrent Generation and Sensing Applications
31 Dec 2010 | Poster | Contributor(s): Donghyeon Ryu
To date, numerous types of sensing systems (e.g., strain gages, fiber optics, wireless sensors, and piezoelectrics) have been employed and proposed for structural monitoring applications. …
http://nees.org/resources/1847
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Laser Induced Plasma Micro-machining Process (LIP-MM)
31 Dec 2010 | Poster | Contributor(s): Kumar Pallav
The LIP-MM is a novel tool less micro-machining process that utilizes plasma, generated inside a transparent dielectric by tightly focusing ultra-short laser beam, to perform micro-machining in a …
http://nees.org/resources/1858
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Numerical Simulations of Pulsed-Air Mixing Using Multiphase Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods
29 Dec 2010 | Poster | Contributor(s): Rinaldo Gonzalez Galdamez, Stephen Lloyd Wood, Seckin Gokaltun
COMSOL Multiphysics and OpenFOAM Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods are used to create a computational model of a pulsed-air mixer. First, results are provided for a benchmark problem with a …
http://nees.org/resources/1828
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Occurrence of negative epsilon in seismic hazard analysis deaggregation, and its impact on target spectra computation
27 Dec 2010 | Poster | Contributor(s): Lynne Schleiffarth Burks
This research investigates circumstances behind the occurrence of negative ε (the normalized difference between the spectral acceleration of a recorded ground motion and the median response …
http://nees.org/resources/1816
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Pad Conditioning in Chemical Mechanical Polishing: A Conditioning Density Distribution Model to Predict Pad Surface Shape
26 Dec 2010 | Poster | Contributor(s): Emmanuel Baisie
Diamond disc pad conditioning is traditionally employed to restore pad planarity and surface roughness in chemical mechanical polishing (or planarization) (CMP). In this paper, a conditioning …
http://nees.org/resources/1812