CEP: News Update
Nanoparticles Detect Sulfur Content in Crude Oil; Putting Waste Heat to Work; New Process Prints Personalized Drugs; EPA to Cut CO2 from Power Plants; Microbes Convert Biodiesel Waste into Valuable Chemicals
Nanomaterials
CEP: News Update
Silicon Anode Gets a Fruity Makeover; New Anode Provides a Home for Plus-Sized Na+ Ions; A Flicker of Hope for Nonflammable Li-Ion Batteries; Bio-Inspired Glass Is Bendable; and more.
CEP: News Update
Harmless Virus Helps Assemble Li-O2 Cathode for Batteries; A Sticky Solution for Tissue Engineering; Biopatch Catalyzes Bone Regeneration; Shape-Shifting Material Heats Up; and more
CEP: News Update
Made-to-Order Materials Move Forward; 3D Photonic Crystal Stands Up to the Heat; Battery Electrode Acquires Self-Healing Power; GHG Emissions Decline as Power Plants Switch to Natural Gas; and more.
CEP: News Update
Genetically Engineered Yeast Consume Toxic Byproduct; New Device Performs Double Duty; Simulations Shine Light on Future Solar Materials; Closing the Voltage Gap; and more.
CEP: News Update
Crunching the Numbers on Grid-Scale Storage; Microbes Convert Waste into Electricity; Solar Cells Make the Right Connection; Engineered Tissue Mingles with Blood Vessels; and more.
CEP: News Update
Electronic Skin Lights Up When Touched; Nature-Inspired Windows Cool Themselves Down; First Commercial Production of Cellulosic Biofuel Begins; Water-Splitting Process Produces H2 Isothermally; and more
CEP: News Update
Hot Off the Press: The World’s First 3D-Printed Battery; Nonmetal Compound Catalyzes CO2-to-Methanol Reaction; Iron Catalyst Gives Hydrogenation a Green Makeover; and more
CEP: News Update
Inkjet-Printed Graphene Rolls Out; UV Treatment Improves Membrane Selectivity; Additive Sweetens the Prospects for Organic Electronics; Protective Coating Connects Electronics and Living Tissue; and more.
Nanotechnology: A Guide to Nano-Objects
Michael Wong, Sravani Gullapalli
Rapid change in the field of nanotechnology can make it hard to keep track of the latest nanomaterial developments. Here's a primer on the most common shapes, sizes, and compositions of nano-objects.
CEP: News Update
News Feature: Graphene Marches Down a Long Road to Commercialization A Stretchable, Rechargeable Li-Ion Battery Makes its Debut Defects Strengthen Magnesium Alloys Gold Lights the Way to Quantum-Dot Solar Cells Japan Taps into Fire Ice A Phase-...
CEP: News Update
Now Available: High-Performance Carbon Nanotube Fibers; Nanowire-Based Solar Cell Achieves Record Performance; Fireflies Share Their Light Tricks with LEDs; Tissue Adhesives Are Inspired by the Prickly Porcupine; New Coating Shields Against Nearly All Liquids; and more.
CEP: News Update
Global Relationships Take Center Stage at the 2012 Annual Meeting; No Boiling Needed: Nanoparticles Convert Sunlight into Steam; Hydrogen Power Goes Mobile; Carbon Nanotubes Team Up with Graphene; New Process Brings Bendable Electronics Closer to Reality; and more.
CEP: Update
Oxide Catalysts Get Selective; New Catalyst Challenges Platinum; Quick-Release Tape Peels with Ease; Electronic Skin Mimics the Human Epidermis
Carbon Nanotubes and Other Nanostructured Materials
Virtual Local Section Webinar
Jul 28, 2011
The discovery of fullerenes in 1985 sparked the interest of researchers in novel crystalline forms of carbon. Nobel laureate Richard Smalley, co-...
Using Catalytic Nanoparticles to Clean Water
NSEF Webinar
Apr 15, 2010
In this talk, I will describe our work in improving the feasibility of these NP catalysts for groundwater remediation and in understanding how the...
Nanotechnology: What is it? What are the opportunities?
AIChE Webinar
Mar 11, 2008
Nanotechnology deals with the creation of materials, devices and systems through the manipulation of nanoscale matter, and takes advantage of novel...
CEP: News Update
New Battery Takes Charge of its Power; Nanomaterial Reversibly Stores Hydrogen; Nanoparticles Sneak Past the Brain’s Armor ; and more
CEP: News Update
Slippery Surface Is Too Slick for Bacterial Films; New Materials Put the Brakes on Infection; ITO Flexes Its Muscles; Control Wrinkles with this Simple Method; and more
Nanoarchitectured Ni-ZrO2 Catalysts for Hydrogen Production From Steam Reforming of Ethanol
AIChE Annual Meeting
Oct 18, 2011
Hydrogen has been considered as an important alternative energy vector and a bridge to a sustainable energy future. Production of hydrogen...
Removal of Rhodamine B Dye with Fe/Mn Co-Doped Titania Nanotubes
AIChE Annual Meeting
Oct 17, 2011
Fe/Mn co-doped titania nanotubes has been synthesized by solution combustion followed by the hydrothermal treatment. Combustion synthesis has emerged...
Novel Quaternary Ammonium Ionic Liquid Electrolyte for Stable, High Capacity Si Nanowire Based Li-Ion Battery
AIChE Annual Meeting
Oct 16, 2011
In recent years, there has been interest in silicon nanowires as an anode for Li-ion battery because of its large gravimetric capacity of 4200 mAh/g...
The Wonderful World of Carbon Nanotubes
AIChE Webinar
Dec 17, 2009
The combination of remarkable mechanical properties and unique electronic properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) offers significant potential for...
Nano / Microscale Heat Transfer
AccessEngineering
Nanostructuring Operations in Nanoscale Science and Engineering
AccessEngineering
Carbon Nano Forms and Applications
AccessEngineering
NANO: The Essentials: Understanding Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
AccessEngineering
Nanosensors: Evolution, Not Revolution...Yet
Suzanne A. Shelley
Promising nanotechnology-enabled sensors, monitoring devices and analytical instruments continue to advance toward commercialization for diverse industrial, environmental, medical and military applications— but hurdles remain.
Nanotechnology: Cause for Concern?
Kristine Chin
Nanotechnology— it's a small science with big stakes. Some of the unique properties that make nanoscale materials useful may also pose hazards to humans and the environment. Can the EPA find a way to effectively regulate these tiny high-tech...
Rapid Deposition of Titania Nanoparticles for Dye Solar Cells
AIChE Annual Meeting
Oct 18, 2011
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), while only having been designed about twenty years ago, are considered to be one of the most promising third-...
Ordered Mesoporous TiO2/ZnO Material for Hydrogen Production
AIChE Annual Meeting
Oct 17, 2011
Ordered mesoporous Zr-doped TiO 2 /ZnO material is currently being investigated for band gap tuning and higher loadings of photo-sensitizer...
Inorganic Catalytic Nanofibers for the Production of Hydrogen Via Alkaline Hydrolysis of Biomass
AIChE Annual Meeting
Oct 17, 2011
Here we propose to develop a farm-scale biorefining system that can convert cellulosic biomass into useable hydrogen gas. In particular, we focus on...
Catalytic Hydrolysis of Ammonia Borane Using Co-B Nanoparticles Embedded In Mesoporous Silica Particles: a Very Efficient Catalyst for Hydrogen Production
AIChE Annual Meeting
Oct 17, 2011
Ammonia Borane (AB), with high hydrogen storage capacity (19.5 wt.%), is predicted to be possibly a future fuel for providing pure H 2 to fuel cell...
Electrostatic Stabilization of Silicon Nanocrystal Colloids for Solution-Processed Photovoltaics
AIChE Annual Meeting
Oct 16, 2011
The tunable optoelectronic properties of semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) have garnered significant attention for photovoltaic device integration...
Atomic Layer Deposition of Nanoscale Materials for Energy Conversion
AIChE Annual Meeting
Oct 16, 2011
For a number of technologies, including microelectronics and energy conversion devices, feature sizes are becoming increasingly small, and the need...
Development of a Scalable Bottom-up Nanomanufacturing Platform for Highly Efficient Photovoltaics
AIChE Annual Meeting
Oct 16, 2011
Solar energy is clean, abundant, and renewable, yet it is vastly under-utilized in the current world. Although crystalline silicon solar cells are...
Mechanism of Li Adsorption On Carbon Nanotube-Fullerene Hybrid System: A First-Principles Study
AIChE Annual Meeting
Oct 16, 2011
The lithium (Li) adsorption mechanism on the metallic (5,5) single wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT)-fullerene (C 60 ) hybrid material system is...
Raman and XPS Investigation of Copper Promoted Transition Metal Doped Ferrites – High Temperature Water Gas Shift Activity
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 11, 2010
In our previous studies, we introduced a variety of metal ions (M = Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Ce) into iron oxide (spinel lattice) and screened for...
Placement of Catalyst in Electrospun Silica Nanofibers for the Alkaline Hydrolysis of Biomass
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 11, 2010
The use of electrospinning to generate one dimensional materials has garnered significant interest lately due to its inexpensive nature and the...
Nano Copper Oxide: From Flame Spray Pyrolysis to Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Generation
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 11, 2010
A systematic experimental study of the synthesis of copper oxide nanoparticles and nanoporous films is presented. Powders were made by flame spray...
Photoelectrochemical Properties of Birnessite-Type MnO2 Thin Films for Solar Water Splitting
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 11, 2010
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting to produce clean hydrogen fuel is an attractive method for harvesting intermittent solar energy and...
PVA-Calcium Oxide Composite Membrane for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 10, 2010
The large scale utilization of Nafion® in Direct Methanol Fuel Cell( DMFC) is still constrained by high methanol permeability and high temperature...
Stability and ORR Activity of Nitrogen Functionalized Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Supports
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 10, 2010
The most popular catalyst for low temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) is platinum (Pt) nanoparticles supported on carbon [1]. One...
Zeolite – Protic Ionic Liquid Composites: Preparation, Characterization and Evaluation of Ion Conduction Properties
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 10, 2010
Fuel Cells (FCs) have been recognized as one important device for efficient transformation of chemical energy to electricity. Among the different FC...
A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of Hydrated Sulfonated Poly (Ether Ether Ketone) for Application to Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 10, 2010
S-PEEK has been known as one of the promising candidates for fuel cell application since it has high thermo-oxidative stability and extraordinary...
Oriented Single-Crystalline Rutile TiO2 Nanorods On Transparent Conducting Substrates for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 9, 2010
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) made from oriented, one-dimensional (1D) semiconductor nanostructures such as nanorods, nanowires, and nanotubes...
Performance Enhancement of Hybrid Solar Cells through Chemical Vapor Annealing
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 9, 2010
Semiconductor nanostructure-based solar cells, such as dye-sensitized solar cells, all-inorganic nanostructure solar cells, and hybrid inorganic...
Hot Electron Transfer From Semiconductor Nanocrystals
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 9, 2010
Sub-Picosecond Dynamics of Free Electrons in TiO2 Nanotubes
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 9, 2010
The sub-picosecond mobility and lifetime of free electrons injected into TiO2 nanotubes were probed with sub-picosecond temporal resolution using...
Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) and CuIn(SeS)2 (CISS) Nanocrystals and Their Use as Printable Photovoltaic Media and Medical Imaging Contrast Agents
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 9, 2010
We have developed the colloidal synthesis of I-III-VI2 semiconductor nanocrystals of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) and CuIn(SeS)2 (CISS). These nanocrystals...
Exploiting Equilibrium Properties for Assembly of Core/Shell-Like Compound Semiconductor Nanocrystals
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 9, 2010
Typical synthesis of core/shell nanostructures involves a rigorous two-step protocol. It is common to synthesize the semiconducting core first,...
Solution-Grown CuInSe2 Nanowires for Low-Cost Photovoltaics
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 9, 2010
A semiconductor media that could be printed under ambient conditions by a roll-to-roll process on plastic substrates to fabricate photovoltaic...
Using Supercritical Fluids for CdS and CdTeS Nanoparticle Decorated TiO2 Nanostructures
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 9, 2010
Abstract: TiO2 nanowires were sensitized with CdS and CdTeS quantum dots which were grown using an in situ colloidal method using both conventional...
Evidence for High-Efficiency Exciton Dissociation at Poly(3-hexylthiophene)/Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Interfaces in Planar Nano-Heterojunction Photovoltaics
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 9, 2010
There is significant interest in combining carbon nanotubes with semiconducting polymers for photovoltaic applications due to potential advantages...
Modeling & Optimization of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells with Core/Shell Nanowire Array-Based Photoanodes
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 9, 2010
The benefits of utilizing nanowire-based photoanodes for dye sensitized solar cells is quickly becoming apparent. Nanowire structures allow for the...
Understanding and Controlling Organic-Inorganic Interfaces in Mesostructured Titania/Conjugated Polymer Materials for Photovoltaic Applications
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 9, 2010
The use of surfactant-directed mesostructured inorganic materials allows for the preparation of oxide frameworks as continuous transparent films with...
Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 and TiO2-xCxNy Thin Films From Polymer Assisted Deposition
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 9, 2010
Since the 1972 discovery of Fujishima and Honda detecting the occurrence of water splitting on TiO2 electrodes, titanium dioxide's use as a...
Gas Sorption in Ionic Liquid-Carbon Nanotube Composite Materials
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 8, 2010
Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations were used to study the ionic liquid 1-n-Hexyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(Trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amide ([...
Hydrophilic Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization and Application in Forward Osmosis Processes
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 7, 2010
*Corresponding author, Email: chencts@nus.edu.sg , Fax: (65)-6779 1936 ABSTRACT Freshwater shortage has caused serious world-wide problems and many...
Solar Hydrogen Production Using Ferrite-Based Water Splitting Cycles On Al2O3 Substrates
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 8, 2009
We are reporting the results of an alternative ferrite cycle in which the ferrite (CoFe2O4) is deposited on a porous Al2O3 support via atomic layer...
Synthesis and Characterization of New Bimetallic Spinel Oxy-Nitride Photocatalysts
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 8, 2009
Photocatalysis is the acceleration of a slow reaction by a photon-assisted process with titanium dioxide (TiO2) being the material of choice for most...
Titania Nanotube Supported Gold Photoanodes
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 8, 2009
Photoelectrochemical cells (PEC) combine a photovoltaic device for light harvesting and an electrolyzer for water splitting into a single system...
Design and Process Control Issues In Nanomanufacturing
AIChE Annual Meeting
Nov 17, 2008
This presentation will raise awareness of some key process issues involved in answering the following primary question: in manufacturing products...
Nanotechnology: From Discovery to Innovation and Socioeconomic Projects
Mihail C. Roco
Nanoscale science and engineering continue to evolve from a scientific novelty to a broad-based technology with potential to transform medicine, productivity, sustainability, and quality of life.
