We demonstrate a new hierarchical self-assembly strategy for the formation of photonic arrays containing quantum dots (QDs), in which sequential self-assembly steps introduce organization on progressively longer length scales, ranging from the nanoscale to the microscale regimes. The first step in this approach is the self-assembly of diblock copolymers to form block ionomer reverse micelles (S...

The rise of inorganic-biological hybrid organisms for solar-to-chemical production has spurred mechanistic investigations into the dynamics of the biotic-abiotic interface to drive the development of next-generation systems. The model system, Moorella thermoacetica-cadmium sulfide (CdS), combines an inorganic semiconductor nanoparticle light harvester with an acetogenic bacterium to drive the p...

BACKGROUND In determining whether clinical decision support (CDS) should be interruptive or non-interruptive, CDS designers need more guidance to balance the potential for interruptive CDS to overburden clinicians and the potential for non-interruptive CDS to be overlooked by clinicians. OBJECTIVE (1)To compare performance achieved by clinicians using interruptive CDS versus using similar, no...

The high-level contribution of this paper is a simulation-based comparison of two contrasting categories (minimum node size vs. stability) of connected dominating sets for mobile ad hoc networks. We pick the maximum density-based CDS (MaxD-CDS) and Node ID-based CDS (ID-CDS) to be representatives of the minimum node size-based CDS algorithms; the minimum velocity-based CDS (MinV-CDS) and the no...

We report a virus-based scaffold for the synthesis of single-crystal ZnS, CdS, and freestanding chemically ordered CoPt and FePt nanowires, with the means of modifying substrate specificity through standard biological methods. Peptides (selected through an evolutionary screening process) that exhibit control of composition, size, and phase during nanoparticle nucleation have been expressed on t...

Over the past few years, shape control of nanomaterials has raised significant concerns in the fabrication of onedimensional (1D) nanomaterials such as nanowires, nanotubes and interesting nanobelts [1]. These 1D nanostructures are ideal systems for investigation of the relationship between the properties (e.g. electrical transport, optical and magnetic behaviors) and dimensionality [2]. For ex...

UNLABELLED The ability to provide targeted therapeutic delivery in the lung would be a major advancement in pharmacological treatments for many pulmonary diseases. Critical issues for such successful delivery would require the ability to target specific cell types, minimize toxicity (e.g., inflammatory response), and deliver therapeutic levels of drugs. We report here on the ability of nanoconj...