Our inability to accurately monitor individual neurons and their synaptic activity precludes fundamental understanding of brain function under normal and various pathological conditions. However, recent breakthroughs in micro- and nano-scale fabrication processes have advanced the development of neuro-electronic hybrid technology. Among such devices are three-dimensional and planar electrodes, ...

Tsinghua National Laboratory for Inform Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua Un E-mail: [email protected]; rentl@tsi Key Laboratory for Advanced Manufactur Ministry of Education and Department University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China. E-m +86 10 62773637; Tel: +86 10 62781065 Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics (CNM P. R. China † Electronic supplementary information DOI: 10.1039/c2ee2353...

This paper introduces the immersive visualisation of nano-indentation simulation of Cu. The molecular dynamics simulation is performed in a system consisting of 326,592 atoms of size 18.6 × 17.0 × 18.4 nm, under periodic boundary conditions. Based on the coordination number calculation, a practical method for the extraction of “extraordinary” atoms is developed. The simulation has been visualis...

S. Kawabata,1,* S. Kashiwaya,2 Y. Asano,3 and Y. Tanaka4 1Nanotechnology Research Institute and Synthetic Nano-Function Materials Project (SYNAF), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan 2Nanoelectronics Research Institute, AIST, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan 3Department of Applied Physics, Hokkai...

S. A. Brown, J. G. Partridge, S. Scott, S. Hendy£, A. Ayesh, R. Reichel, K. C. Tee, M. Kaufmann, A. Awasthi£, P. Zoontjens£, A. Lassesson, J. van Lith, M. Schulze. # MacDiarmid Institute of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, † Nano Cluster Devices Ltd, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutherford Building, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Industrial Research Ltd, PO Bo...

Lightweight nano-composite materials, nano-coatings, nanocatalysts, and nano-structured materials have demonstrated an ability to reduce emissions maximize clean energy production. Nanoparticles play important role in engineering decarbonization for applications, a wide range of nanoparticle synthesis methods been developed include those that enable control over particle morphology. The morphol...

The growing use of plastic materials has led to the continuous accumulation wastes in marine environments, which fragment into hazardous micro-and nanoplastics. These particles absorb toxic organic pollutants on their surface, support bacterial biofilms growth, and propagate through food chain, posing serious risks for human health. Therefore, nano/microplastics pollution become a global issue,...

In general failure analysis cases, a less invasive fault isolation approach can be utilized to resolve a visual root cause defect. In the case of nano technology, visual defects are not readily resolved, due to an increase in non-visible defects. The non-visible defects result in a lower success rate since conventional FA methods/tools are not efficient in identifying the failure root cause. Fo...

(Dated: April 24, 2014) Louis deBroglie’s connection between momentum and spatial-frequency vectors is perhaps most viscerally-experienced via the real-time access that electron-diffraction provides to transverse slices of a nano-crystal’s reciprocal-lattice. The classic introductory (and/or advanced) physics lab-experiment on microwave Bragg-scattering can with a bit of re-arrangement also giv...

Manipulating structure, defects and composition of a material at the atomic scale for enhancing its physical or mechanical properties is referred to as nanostructuring. Here, by combining advanced microscopy techniques, we unveil how formation of highly regular nano-arrays of nanoparticles doubles the strength of an Fe-based alloy, doped with Ti, Mo, and V, from 500 MPa to 1 GPa, upon prolonged...