http://scitation.aip.org/ J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med.: All Topics http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4004313 Imbaby I. Mahmoud, Mohamed S. El_Tokhy, and Hussein A. Konber<br/> The main objective of this paper is to develop a model of quantum dot (QD) devices for incident gamma radiation detection. A novel methodology is introduced to characterize the effect of gamma radiation on QD detectors. In this methodology, we used VisSim environment along with the block diagram pro ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 034503 (2012)] published Fri Jan 13, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4004025 S. Sathyanarayanan and A. Vimala Juliet<br/> Micromachining technology has greatly benefited from the success of developments in implantable biomedical microdevices. In this paper, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) capacitive pressure sensor operating for biomedical applications in the range of 20400 mm Hg was designed. Employing the micro ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 034502 (2012)] published Tue Jan 10, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4004307 Christina V. Haden, Donald A. Jordan, and Pamela M. Norris<br/> A novel and inexpensive bucky gel electrode was investigated for use as the electrode substrate for polypyrrole deposition. Potentiostatic deposition of polypyrrole onto gold and bucky gel electrodes was carried out at +1.2 V versus saturated calomel electrode for 1 h in a standard three-electrode e ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 034501 (2012)] published Mon Jan 9, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4004181 Gabriel Molina de Olyveira, Ligia Maria Manzine Costa, Pierre Basmaji, and Lauro Xavier Filho<br/> Bacterial cellulose (BC) has established to be a remarkably versatile biomaterial and can be used in a wide variety of applied scientific endeavours, especially for medical devices. Nanocellulose, such as that produced by the bacteria Gluconacetobacter xylinus (bacterial cellulose, BC), is an emergi ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 034001 (2012)] published Fri Jan 20, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005490 Ravi Sureddi and Jawahar L. Mehta<br/> Cardiovascular diseases, especially myocardial ischemia, have been a leading cause of death worldwide for several decades. Despite major advances in the diagnostic and therapeutic modalities available for the clinical management of patients with cardiovascular disease, significant limitations remain ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 031012 (2012)] published Thu Jan 26, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4004306 Gabriel Molina de Olyveira, Ligia Maria Manzine Costa, Placia Barreto Prata Gois, Pierre Basmaji, and Lauro Xavier Filho<br/> In the present work, we report the novel natural transdermal otoliths/collagen/bacterial cellulose patch for osteoporosis treatment. This biomaterial is an osteoinductor, or be, stimulates the bone regeneration, enabling bigger migration of the cells for formation of the bone fabric. Otolith is a ty ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 031011 (2012)] published Thu Jan 26, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005488 Guoguang Su and Ramana M. Pidaparti<br/> Generating liquid droplets is ideal for many applications including respiratory drug delivery because the droplets have uniform properties and can be easily controlled, sampled, and analyzed. In this study, a micropump-based droplet generator is proposed to produce the liquid droplets of micron to n ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 031010 (2012)] published Fri Jan 20, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4004305 Jining Xie, Linfeng Chen, Vijay K. Varadan, Sahitya Chetan, and Malathi Srivatsan<br/> Magnetic nanotubes hold the potential for neuroscience applications because of the feasibility of controlling the orientation or movement of magnetic nanotubes and their ability to deliver chemicals or biomolecules by an external magnetic field, which can facilitate directed growth of neurites. Ther ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 031009 (2012)] published Fri Jan 13, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005486 Noel Challamel and Isaac Elishakoff<br/> Recently, considerable attention has been given to investigating the surface effects on nanoscale materials. These effects can be predominant for small-scale structures, such as nanobeams, nanoplates, and nanoshells. In this paper, surface elasticity effects are considered for small scale beam struc ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 031008 (2012)] published Wed Jan 11, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005487 Guo Kai, Pei WeiHua, Wang Yu, Xu Bing, Gui Qiang, Liu Jian, and Chen HongDa<br/> Braincomputer interface (BCI) technology is a key issue in neural engineering, which can manipulate machine by electroencephalography (EEG). An important question surrounding the use of the BCI is the design of a wearable electroencephalography recording and processing equipment. We report the desig ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 031007 (2012)] published Tue Jan 10, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4004361 Cai Zhijiang, Hou Chengwei, Yang Guang, and Kim Jaehwan<br/> In this paper, we investigate a novel method using bacterial cellulose (BC) as template by in situ method to prepare BC/silver nanocomposites. We first introduce sonication procedure during immersion and reduction reaction process to make sure that the silver nanoparticles can be formed and distribu ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 031006 (2012)] published Tue Jan 10, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4004323 S. Arghavan and A. V. Singh<br/> Prospect of applications of graphene sheets in composites and other advanced materials have drawn attention from a broad spectrum of research fields. This paper deals with the methods to find mechanical properties of such nanoscale structures. First, the lattice structure method with the Poisson's r ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 031005 (2012)] published Tue Jan 10, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4004311 S. Akbarnezhad, S. M. Mousavi, M. Pakizeh, and S. Kiani<br/> In the present paper, the preparation and characterization of porous aluminatitania nanostructure membrane is described. The membrane layers consisted of an alpha-alumina membrane support, which was dip-coated with a composite aluminatitania top layer prepared in a solgel process. Thermogravimetric ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 031004 (2012)] published Tue Jan 10, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005489 Zhi-Bin Shen, Bin Deng, Xian-Fang Li, and Guo-Jin Tang<br/> The potential of double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) as a micromass sensor is explored. A nonlocal Timoshenko beam carrying a micromass at the free end of the inner tube is used to analyze the vibration of DWCNT-based mass sensor. The length of the outer tube is not equal to that of the inner tu ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 031003 (2012)] published Mon Jan 9, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005485 F. Alisafaei, R. Ansari, and H. Rouhi<br/> Using the LennardJones potential, continuum modeling of the van der Waals potential energy and interaction force distributions are investigated for the eccentric and concentric single-walled carbon nanocones inside the single-walled carbon nanotubes. Furthermore, a new semi-analytical solution is pr ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 031002 (2012)] published Mon Jan 9, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005484 Rui Zhu, G. L. Huang, Hargsoon Yoon, Courtney S. Smith, and Vijay K. Varadan<br/> The viability of neural probes with microelectrodes for neural recording and stimulation in the brain is important for the development of neuroprosthetic devices. Vertically aligned nanowire microelectrode arrays can significantly enhance the capabilities of neuroprosthetic devices. However, when th ... [J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 2, 031001 (2012)] published Mon Jan 9, 2012.