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

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

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

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 …

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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