Center for Nanoscience and Soft Matter (CNSSM) Roster
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Nanoscale computing, noise analysis of nanoscale circuits, reliable computing under high defect and highly noisy conditions, self-assembly Glycobiology and materials science. Dendritic, polymer and nanoparticle probes for cell surface carbohydrate recognition; Nanoscale polymer architectures. Semiconductor nanostructures and epitaxy, pattern-driven quantum dot growth; direct nanoelectronic detection of redox reactions; nanoscale sensing and control of biological processes. Nanoscale fluid mechanics and transport processes, fluid-surface interactions, behavior of nanoscale particles and flexible filaments in fluids, diffusion and heat transfer, mechanics of biological motion and adhesion, experimental techniques for nanoscale fluid measurements. Evolution of surfaces and thin film structures, non-equilibrium processing (growth, ion bombardment); self-assembled nanostructures; real-time diagnostics (stress, roughness, surface and interface morphology, defect formation); simulation and modeling Computational materials science and nano- and micro-mechanics of materials; multiscale modeling of deformation, fracture and fatigue with applications to metals, alloys, nanomaterials, fiber-reinforced composites, and nanocomposites Biological consequences of DNA damage. Using the tools of chemistry and biology to probe the effects of DNA modification at the molecular level. Particular interested in the role of oxidative DNA damage and its contributions to cancer and neurological disorders such as Huntington's disease. Quantum Hall effect and its applications in quantum information science, quantum wires, nanomagnets, spintronics, soft matter in random porous media Thin film materials, molecular adhesion in biological materials, tissue assembly in cell suspensions Modeling and simulation of mechanical properties of nanomaterials, nanomechanics of biological systems, mechanical principles of hierarchical materials, size effects, thin films, nanostructured materials, nanomechanics of cell and vesicle adhesion Experimental mechanics at nano and micro-scales; biologically inspired contact mechanics, adhesion and friction; guided assembly and surface engineering Nanomaterials and their biological and environmental applications/implications; carbon nanomaterials, nanotoxicology, interfacial phenomena, liquid crystals and supramolecular assembly, material chemistry approaches for safe nanomaterial formulation, nanoparticle cell delivery Nanomechanics, AFM nanometrology, Nanotribology. Defects in crystalline solids, their motion, interaction and consequences on deformation; mechanical behavior of nanocrystalline materials; experimental techniques for defect characterization Nanopore DNA sequencing, nanofabrication, optical and magnetic tweezers, nanomechanical measurements on single biomolecules, nanobiology Acoustic measurements on thin films and nanostructures, development of an ultra-high resolution acoustic microscope, imaging the motion of single electrons in liquid helium. Quantum chemistry of actinide nano-complexes with application to the problem of high level nuclear waste disposal; physics of quantum many-body systems driven far from equilibrium. Nuclear magnetic resonance of nanoscale inhomogeneity, magnetic nanoparticles, and molecules Nanophotonics, active electronic nanomaterials, and neuroenginering and neurotechnology including new approaches to interfacing the brain by nanoscale implantable devices Imaging and structure analysis at the nanoscale using electron microscopy, amorphous and nano-structured metal oxides for transparent, flexible, and large area electronics, transparent conducting oxide applications, (transparent) thin film transistors Nanomaterial components in biofuel cells, photovoltaics, batteries; cellular scaffolds; genetically engineered machines; self-assembly of molecular solids Theory and simulation of soft matter including liquid crystals and liquid crystalline elastomers, confinement of nanoscale systems, topological defects, lipid membranes and vesicles
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Soft condensed matter physics: lipid bilayer membranes, biological filaments, liquid crystals, rheology, interfacial physics, and swimming motility. Design and analysis of sub-100 nanometer integrated circuits, models of variations in nanoscale device performance, variation-tolerant designs and circuit fabrics Aerogels including gold and magnetic nanoparticles, photochemistry and catalysis related to nanoparticles, carbon nanoparticles Nanomaterials for bio-medical imaging applications and x-ray nano-microscopy using laboratory plasma x-ray sources Christoph_Rose-Petruck@Brown.edu Nanowire decoders, nanowire encoding, nanoscale memory and logic, coded computation at the nanoscale. Functional nanoparticles for catlysis and for separation of low molecular weight compounds Nanomaterials synthesis, especially vapor phase methods, nanomechanical behavior of materials, nanocrystalline diamond films, nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces, and nanocrystalline oxides for electrochemical applications Mechanics of nanoscale surface instabilities, patterning and self-assembly, theory and computational modeling of thin film and surface growth processes, cell adhesion and motility Nano-biophysics, nanopores and novel DNA sequencing strategies, nanofluidics and medical diagnostic applications, DNA-protein interactions, single-molecule biophysics, single-molecule polymer physics Ultrafast spectroscopy; dynamics of liquids, supercooled liquids, and glassy systems; disordered materials and clusters; energy relaxation and the molecular origins of friction Nanomaterials synthesis, self-assembly, magnetic nanoparticles, nanocrystal arrays for information storage and fuel cell catalysts, functional nanoparticles for target-specific diagnostics/therapeutics. Surface modification of metallic nanoparticles with organometallic complexes for catalytic, electrochemical, and self-assembly applications. self-supporting heterogeneous nanocatalysts consisting of supramolecular metal-organometallic coordination network assemblies Nanoscale assembly and dynamics of the cytoskeletal protein filaments F-actin and microtubules, integrin mediated adhesion and migration of neutrophils and T-cells, molecular mechanisms of bacterial adhesion Nanoparticle-based technologies for biomarker/protein identification and separation, biocompatible nanoparticles for bacterial lysis, new encapsulation procedures for drugs and chemical agents, transport through soft matter, disease diagnostics applications using microfluids and nanofluidics platform Nano-structured superconductors, nano-crystal array formation, magnetic manipulation of bio-molecular assemblies Molecular dynamics, nanoscale dynamics, molecular structure characterization, time resolved spectroscopy. Tissue engineering, implants, nanomaterial synthesis, protein and cell interactions with nanomaterials, foreign body response of nanomaterials, nanotoxicity, nanomedicine Electron transport and magnetism in low dimensional systems such as metallic thin films, superlattices and ultrafine particles, physics of novel superconducting and magnetic nanostructures, high temperature superconductivity Quantum photonics, aperiodic optics, semiconductor lasers, molecular electro-optics, collective behavior of large coupled systems; carbon nanotube structures, synthesis of quantum-arrays, DNA conductivity, physics of redox processes in proteins and cells Dynamics of polymers and DNA through nanoscale restrictions, free energy landscapes of complex systems at nanoscale, nanotribology, dislocation generation and motion in heteroepitaxial systems Semiconductor nanowires and nanodots, tunneling nanodevices, nanolayered semiconductor-on-insulator materials, epitaxial nanowire heterojunctions Near-field optics and nanophotonics, optical properties of nanostructured materials, metallic nanoparticles, atomic emission process and novel nanoscale light emitters Self-assembly, spontaneously patterning monolayer templates for 3D assembly, molecular electronics, nanoparticle diagnostics |