Project Overviews
NIRT A. Fundamental Nanoscale Phenomena and Processes
NIRT B. Nanoscale Devices and System Architecture
NIRT C. Hierarchical Nanomanufacturing
NIRT D. Societal and Educational Issues
Other NIRTs
Centers and Networks
NIRTs
A. Fundamental Nanoscale Phenomena and Processes
- NIRT: Targeted Delivery and Microbial Interactions of Polymer-Functionalized Nanoparticles for Groundwater Contaminant Source-Zone Remediation 0608646 - poster
Robert Tilton, Edwin Minkley, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Gregory Lowry - NIRT: Nuclear Hyperpolarization for Organic and Inorganic Semiconductor Nanostructures 0608763
Carlos Meriles, Jeffrey Reimer, Maria Tamargo, Rachel Segalman - NIRT: Design and Realization of Decoherence-Free Nanoscale Superconducting Qubits 0608842 - poster
Michael Gershenson, Boris Altshuler, Premala Chandra, and Lev Ioffe - NIRT: Active Nanoparticles in Nanostructured Materials Enabling Advances in Renewable Energy and Environmental Remediation 0608896 - poster
David A. Dixon, James L. Gole, Andrei Federov, Clemens Burda, Greg Szulczewski - NIRT: Stimuli-Responsive Hybrid Nanoparticles for Controlled Chemical Delivery 0608906 - poster
Hamid Ghandehari, Philip DeShong, Douglas English, Michael R. Zachariah - NIRT: Actively Reconfigurable Nanostructured Surfaces for the Improved Separation of Biological Macromolecules 0608978 - poster
Ravi S. Kane, Steve Granick, Sanat Kumar - NIRT: Ligand Nanodisplay for Cell Internalization and Superactivation 0609000 - poster
Prabhas V. Moghe (PI), Jean Schwarzbauer, Thomas Tsakalakos, Charles Roth, David Talaga - NIRT: Tuning the Electronic and Molecular Structures of Catalytic Active Sites with Oxide Nanoligands 0609018
Israel E. Wachs (PI), Christopher J. Kiely (co-PI), Michael S. Wong (co-PI) and Matthew Neurock (co-PI) - NIRT: Graphene Sheets For Use In Nacre-Mimic Layered And Tabular Composites 0609049
Ilhan Aksay, Robert Prud'homme, Douglas Adamson, Roberto Car - NIRT-GOALI: Solution-Based Dispersion, Sorting, and Placement of Carbon Nanotubes 0609050 - poster
A. Jagota, M. Zheng, Y-M. Chiang, S.V. Rotkin, C. Kiely - NIRT: Controlling Interfacial Activity of Nanoparticles: Robust Routes to Nanoparticle-based Capsules, Membranes, and Electronic Materials 0609107 - poster
Todd Emrick, Thomas P. Russell, Anthony D. Dinsmore, Narayanan Menon, and Benny D. Freeman - NIRT: Magnetically and Thermally Active Nanoparticles for Cancer Treatment 0609117 - poster
Carlos Rinaldi, Madeline Torres-Lugo, Gustavo Gutierrez, J. Zach Hilt, and Silvina Tomassone - NIRT: Biomimetic Nanostructured Medical Adhesives 0609182 - poster
Robert Langer, Joseph Vacanti, David Carter, Jeffrey Borenstein, Edwin P. Chan, Alborz Madhavi, Lino Ferreira, Jason Nichol, Jeffrey Karp - NIRT: Nanometer Stoichiometric Particle Compound Solutions and Control of their Self-Assembly into the Condensed Phase 0609318 - poster
C M Sorensen, B M Law, K J Klabunde, A Chakrabarti and C Aakeroy - NIRT: Active Multiferroic Nanostructures 0609377 - poster
C G Takoudis, S Ghosh, A Gupta, N A Spaldin, G Srinivasan
B. Nanoscale Devices and System Architecture
- NIRT: Opto-Plasmonic Nanoscope 0608863 - poster
Y. Fainman, V. Lomakin, A. Groisman, and G. W. Schmid-Schoenbeim - NIRT: Active Nanostructures for Nucleic Directed synthesis of Organic Functional Polymers 0608889 - poster
Nadrian Seeman (NYU), William A. Goddard III (Caltech), James Canary (NYU), Erik Winfree (Caltech) - NIRT: Active Nanostructure Enabled On-Chip Spectroscopy System for Cancer Detection 0608934 - poster
Won Park, J.-B. Lee, Lynne Bemis and Bill Robinson - NIRT: Nanotube-Based Nanofluidic Devices and Fundamental Fluid Studies at the Nanoscale 0609062
Yury Gogotsi, Haim Bau, Gennady Friedman, Constantine Megaridis, Alexander Yarin - NIRT: Molecular and Electronic Devices Based on Novel One-Dimensional Nanopore Arrays 0609064 - poster
Zhi Chen, Bruce J. Hinds, Vijay Singh, and Mark C. Hersam - NIRT: Engineered Molecular Fluidics 0609087 - poster
S.S. Sheiko, K. Matyjaszewski, M. Rubinstein, O. Velev - NIRT: Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (NEMS) using Light-Driven Molecular Shuttles as Active Nanostructures 0609128 - poster
Chung-Chiun Liu, William A. Goddard, Tony Jun Huang and J.Fraser Stoddart - NIRT: Utilization of Ballistic Deflection Phenomena for Room Temperature Devices and Circuitry 0609140 - poster
Martin Margala, Marc Feldman, Paul Ampadu, Yonathan Shapir - NIRT: Terahertz Spectroscopy On A Chip 0609146 - poster
A.G. Markelz, J. P. Bird, S. J. Allen, G. Aizin and L. Murokh - NIRT: Graphene Electronics 0609243 - poster
Peter C. Eklund PI; Jun Zhu Co-PI, Vincent Crespi Co-PI, Srinivas Tadigadapa - NIRT: Spatial and Intensity Modulation of Light Emission in Fluorescent Molecules, Quantum Dots, and Nanowires 0609249
Boldizsar Janko, M. Ken Kuno, James L. Merz, Gregory L. Snider - NIRT: Semiconductor Nanowire Electronics 0609282 - poster
Joan Redwing, Elizabeth Dickey, Mark Lundstrom, Theresa Mayer and Suzanne Mohney - NIRT: Modular Nanodevices for Creation of Smart Adaptable Vaccine Delivery Vehicles 0609326 - poster
Tarek M. Fahmy - ANN NIRT: GOALI : Nano-Engineering Efficient Optoelectronic Devices 0609416 - poster
S. A. Nikishin, J. Berg, A. Bernussi, M. Holtz, H. Temkin - NIRT: Molecular Spin-Active Nanoelectronics 0609469 - poster
M. F. Crommie, J. R. Long, H. K. Park, F. Hellmana
C. Hierarchical Nanomanufacturing
- NIRT: Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube Based Dry Adhesive Surfaces Mimicking Gecko-feet 0609077
Liming Dai, Pulickel Ajayan, Ajit Roy, Ali Dhinojwala - NIRT: Hierarchical Nanomanufacturing of Carbon Nanotube Sheets and Yarns and their Applications for Active Nano-Materials Systems 0609115 - poster
H. Baughman, Karen Lozano, Anvar Zakhidov, and Mei Zhang - NIRT: GOALI - An Electron-Beam Based Microscale Nano-Manufacturing Platform with 1-nm Accuracy 0609241 - poster
J. Todd Hastings, Henry Smith, Francesco Stellacci, James Spallas, and Lawrence Muray - NIRT: Hierarchical Bionanomanufacturing 0609265 - poster
Robert L. Clark. Co-PIs: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Eric Toone, and Stefan Zauscher - NIRT: 3D Hierarchical Nanomanufacturing for Active Photonics-on-chip 0609345 - poster
Yuankun Lin, Karen Lozano, Jeremy Qualls, Shaochen Chen, C. Grant Willson - NIRT: GOALI: Self Assembly at Photonic and Electronic Scales 0609362 - poster
Stuart Lindsay, Hao Yan, Rudy Diaz, Devens Gust
D. Societal and Educational Issues
- NIRT: Evaluating Oversight Mechanisms for Active Nanostructures and Nanosystems: Learning from Past Technologies in a Societal Context 0608791 - poster
Susan M. Wolf, J.D.; Co-PIs: Efrosini Kokkoli, Ph.D., Jennifer Kuzma, Ph.D., Jordan Paradise, J.D., Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Ph.D. - NIRT: Nanotechnology in the Public Interest: Regulatory Challenges, Capacity, and Policy Recommendations 0609078 - poster
C. Bosso (PI); J. Isaacs, W. Kay, R. Sandler, and A. Busnaina (co-PIs)
Other NIRTs
- NIRT: Exploiting Protein Cage Dynamics to Engineer Active Nanostructures 0709358 - poster
Brian Bothner, Trevor Douglas, Ives U Idzerda, and Mark J Young - NIRT: Intuitive Toxicology and Public Engagement 0709056 - poster
David M. Berube, Dietram A. Scheufele, Jennifer Kuzma, Kevin Elliott, Pat J. Gehrke, Robert Oldendick, Vicki Colvin, and Tara Sabo-Attwood - NIRT: Surface State Engineering - Charge Storage and Conduction in Organo-Silicon Heterostructures as a Basis for Nanoscale Devices 0708923 - poster
John C. Bean (PI), Avik Ghosh, Lloyd R. Harriott, Lin Pu, Keith Williams - NIRT: Photon and Plasmon Engineering in Active Optical Devices based on Synthesized Nanostructures 0708905 - poster
Marko Loncar, Mikhail Lukin and Hongkun Park - NIRT: Active NanoPhotofluidic Systems 0708599 - poster
David Erickson - NIRT: Self-Assembled Nanohydrogels for Differential Cell Adhesion and Infection Control 0708379 - poster
Matthew Libera, Woo Lee, Mercedes McKay, Svetlana Sukhishvili, and Hongjun Wang - NIRT: Chemically Directed Surface Alignment and Wiring of Self-Assembled Nanoelectrical Circuits 0708347 - poster
J. Liu, K. A. Nelson, E. Bird, H. Conley, T. Pearson, T. Wickard, L. Hutchins, D. R. Wheeler, R. C. Davis, A. T. Woolley, M. R. Linford, and J. N. Harb - NIRT: Active Electromechanical Nanostructures Without the Use of Piezoelectric Constituents 0708096 - poster
Pradeep Sharma, Boris Yakobson, Ramanan Krishnamoorti, Zoubeida Ounaies, Clark V. Cooper - NIRT: Design of Biocompatible Nanoparticles for Probing Living Cellular Functions and their Potential Environmental Impacts 0507036 - poster
X. Nancy Xu, D. Gillet, C. Osgood, H. Elsayed-Ali, R. Van Duyne - NIRT: Nanoscale Motors Powered by Catalytic Reactions 0506967 - poster
A. Sen, T. E. Mallouk, V. H. Crespi, J. Catchmark - NIRT: Computing with Self Assembled Quantum Dots and Nanowires - poster
S. Bandyopadhyay, K. Karahaliloglu, Jiangpin Sun and K. L. Wang - NIRT: Nanoscale Directed Self-Assembly in Electrical and Optical Fields 0506701 - poster
N.J. Wagner, E.W. Kaler, E.M. Furst, O. Velev, J.F. Brady - NIRT: Nanophotonics for Optical Delay Engineering (NODE) 0403589
Y. Fainman, P. Bandaru, J. Ford, S. Mookherjea, and P. Yu
Centers and Networks
- NSEC: The NSF Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) 0425826 - poster
A. Busnaina, J. Mead, G. Miller, N. McGruer and C. Barry - NSEC: Environmental Transformations of Engineered Nanomaterials and Impacts on Toxicity 0425880 - poster
Joel A. Pedersen, Kevin M. Metz, Paige N. Wiecinski, Robert J. Hamers, Warren Heideman and Richard E. Peterson - NSEC: Social, Legal and Environmental Impacts of Engineered Nanomaterials (Thrust 4) 0425880 - poster
Maria Powell, Mathilde Colin, Martye Griffin, Jeff Rudd, Frank Pfefferkorn, Kunle Mofolasayo - National Center for Learning & Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NCLT) 0426328
R.P.H. Chang, Joseph Krajcik, Nicholas Giordano, Thomas Mason - NSEC CPN: Center for Probing the Nanoscale - poster
David Goldhaber-Gordon - Development, Characterization and Evaluation of UV and Solar-based Advanced Oxidation Nanotechnologies for the Destruction of Cyanobacterial Toxins in Water 0448117 0448117 - poster
Maria G. Antoniou, Hyeok Choi, Miguel Pelaez, Armah. A. de la Cruz, Jody A. Shoemaker, and Dionysios D. Dionysiou - NER: Societal and Legal Issues Raised by Nano Patents 0508321 - poster
Julie Burger, J.D., Lori Andrews, J.D. - NER: Identifying and Regulating Environmental Impacts of Nanomaterials 0508347 - poster
N. Swami, M. Gorman, A. Wardak, E. Fauss, S. Deshpande - NSEC: Center for Nanotechnology in Society at University of California at Santa Barbara 0531184
Barbara Herr Harthorn, Rich Appelbaum, Bruce Bimber, Evelyn Hu, W. Patrick McCray, Christopher Newfield - Deagglomeration of Nanoparticles in Supercritical CO2 0553819 - poster
Yangyang Shen, Aleksey Vishnyakov, M. Silvina Tomassone - NER: Controlling the Local Concentration of Colloidal Particles Inside Ferrofluid 0608819
Benjamin Yellen, Ashutosh Chilkoti - NER: Nanoscale Sensing and Control of Biological Processes 0608880 - poster
Napat Triroj and Rod Beresford - NER: Design and Study of non-Classical Optical Phenomena in Self-Assembled Nanophotonics 0609244 - poster
Jeremy W. Galusha, Jacqueline T. Siy, Lauren R. Richey, and Michael H. Bartl - NER: Nano-Grating Force Sensor for Measurement of Neuron Membrane Characteristics under Growth and Cellular Differentiation 0609413 - poster poster 2
Ashwini Gopal, Zhiquan Luo, Karthik Kumar, Jae Young Lee, Kazunori Hoshino, Bin Li, Christine Schmidt, Paul S. Ho, and Xiaojing Zhang - NSEC: Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications 0646094 - poster
R.M. Westervelt and B.I. Halperin - NER: Nano-Biodevices For Reliable Long-Term Recording and Stimulation of Neuronal Activity 0660892 - poster
Latika Menon, Donald O’Malley, Armen Stepanyants, Mehmet Dokmeci, Srinivas Sridhar - EPDT: Integration of Light Emitting Nano-particles on Scanning Probe for Near Field Imaging and Nanopatterning of Biomaterials 0725886 - poster
Kazunori Hoshino, Lynn Rozanski, David A. Vanden Bout, and Xiaojing Zhang - Nanotechnology and Forest Products
Phil Jones, Imerys Pigments, Roswell, GA; Dan Coughlin, Sappi Fine Paper North America, Westbrook, ME; and Ted Wegner US Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI - Can Nanotechnology Provide The Innovations for a Second Green Revolution in Indian Agriculture? - poster
R.Kalpana Sastry, NH Rao, Richard Cahoon and Terry Tucker - Nanotechnology for Sustainable Water Supply: Nexus to the Economy, Energy, and the Environment
Mark A. Shannon