Since their discovery carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have sparked great interest due to their exceptional mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties. These properties make carbon nanotubes desirable for numerous applications ...

This research focused on methods for regulating arrangement of self-assembled block copolymers by understanding fabrication conditions and their effects on the polymers on flat and patterned substrates. Block copolymer ...

Several parameters that affect the formation, size and spatial distribution of micelles of poly(styrene-block-acrylic acid) (PS-b-PAA) in organic solvents or assembled on solid substrates have been investigated. The micelles ...

Block coopolymers(BCP) have become of interest in the pursuit novel methods of nanolithography. Their ability to self-assembly into periodic geometries with nanoscale feature sizes makes them attractive as etching masks ...

In this thesis, the chemical/mechanical properties and biocompatibility of gelatin were investigated to produce a gelatin scaffold for the release of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) from composite particles. This delivery ...

A study of the behavior of nanoparticles in the presence of solvent vapors is presented. Millimeter-scale films of gold nanoparticles, one nanometer thick, are treated with solvent vapors at various temperatures and the ...

Introduction: The ability to utilize directional, specific bonds are a fundamental property of atoms which has allowed us to predictably create molecules of consistent geometry and composition for centuries. One fundamental ...

Monolayer-coated gold nanoparticles have been the subject of extensive studies in fields ranging from physics to medicine. The properties of these nanomaterials such as solubility and surface energy are often attributed ...