Archived CNMS Research Highlights

• An Endogenous Accelerator for Viral Gene Expression Confers a Fitness Advantage (December 2012) ppt
• Spatiotemporal Parallel Assembly of Metallic Wires and Particles (December 2012) ppt
• N-doped Graphene: Beyond Single Substitution for Enhanced Molecular Sensing (November 2012) ppt
• In Situ Formation of Pyridyl-Functionalized Poly(3-hexylthiophene)s via Quenching of the Grignard Methathesis Polymerization: Toward Ligands for Semiconductor Quantum Dots (November 2012) ppt
• Noisy Gene Expression Allows Many Genes to Share Few Resources in Cells (November 2012) ppt
• Electronic Control Over Attachment and Self-Assembly of Alkyne Groups on Gold (November 2012) ppt
• Nanoscale Insight Into Lead-Free Piezoceramics (September 2012) ppt
• Theory of Space Charge Limited Currents (August 2012) ppt
• A Route to Improving Electron Mobility in Oxide Materials (August 2012) ppt
• Imaging of Electromechanical Phenomena in Liquid Environment (August 2012) ppt
• High-Energy Lithium-Sulfur Batteries (June 2012) ppt
• Local Detection of Activation Energy for Ionic Transport in Lithium Cobalt Oxide (June 2012) ppt
• Nanostructured Polymers for Bone Repair (April 2012) ppt
• Understanding Metal-Directed Growth of Single-Crystal M-TCNQF₄ Organic Nanowires (April 2012) ppt
• Covalently Bonded Three-Dimensional Carbon Nanotube Solids via Boron-Induced Nanojunctions (April 2012) ppt
• Nanoscale Ferroelectricity in Crystalline g Glycine (April 2012) ppt
• Topographic and Spectroscopic Characterization of Electronic Edge States in CVD Grown Graphene Nanoribbons (February 2012) ppt
• Correlating Electronic Transport to Atomic Structures in Self-Assembled Quantum Wires (January 2012) ppt
• Expression Optimization and Synthetic Gene Networks in Cell-free Systems (December 2011) ppt
• Tunable Metallic Conductance in Ferroelectric Nanodomains (December 2011) ppt
• Supramolecular Self-Assembly of p-conjugated Hydrocarbons via 2D Cooperative CH/p Interaction (December 2011) ppt
• PS-b-P3HT Copolymers as P3HT/PCBM Interfacial Compatibilizers for High Efficiency Photovoltaics (November 2011) ppt
• Enhanced Electric Conductivity at Ferroelectric Vortex Cores in BiFeO₃ (November 2011)
• Antioxidant Deactivation on Graphenic Nanocarbon Surfaces (August 2011)
• Electromechanical Actuation and Current-Induced Metastable States in Suspended Single-Crystalline VO₂ Nanoplatelets (August 2011)
• Measuring oxygen reduction/evolution reactions on the nanoscale (August 2011)
• Enhanced Performance Consistency in Nanoparticle/TIPS Pentacene-Based Organic Thin Film Transistors (July 2011)
• Micro/nanofabricated environments for synthetic biology (June 2011)
• Low-temperature Exfoliation of Multilayer-Graphene Material from FeCl₃ and CH₃NO₂ Co-intercalated Graphite Compound (May 2011)
• Direct Imprinting of Porous Substrates: A Rapid and Low-Cost Approach for Patterning Porous Nanomaterials (May 2011)
• Low-Voltage, Low-Power Organic Light-Emitting Transistors for AMOLED Displays (April 2011)
• Surface domain structures and mesoscopic phase transition in relaxor ferroelectrics (April 2011)
• Fluctuations and Correlations in Physical and Biological Nanosystems (April 2011)
• Dynamic Conductivity of Ferroelectric Domain Walls in BiFeO₃ (April 2011)
• Characterization and Carbonization of Highly-Oriented Poly(diiododiacetylene) Nanofibers (March 2011)
• Phonon softening and metallization of a narrow-gap semiconductor by thermal disorder (March 2011)
• Direct Imprinting of Porous Substrates: A Rapid and Low-Cost Approach for Patterning Porous Nanomaterials (September 2010)
• Large Discrete Resistance Jump at Grain Boundary in Copper Nanowire (August 2010)
• Controlling the Edge Morphology in Graphene Layers using Electron Irradiation: From Sharp Atomic Edges to Coalesced Layers Forming Loops (July 2010)
• Surface and Interface Reconstruction in Functional Oxides (June 2010)
• Step-by-step growth of epitaxially aligned polythiophene by surface-confined oligomerization (June 2010)
• Systematic Reduction of Sign Errors in Many-Body Calculations of Atoms and Molecules (May 2010)
• A Scalable Method for Ab Initio Computation of Free Energies in Nanoscale Systems (May 2010)
• Tailored Silicon Nanopost Arrays for Resonant Nanophotonic Ion Production (March 2010)
• Imaging and manipulation of the competing electronic phases near the Mott metal-insulator transition (March 2010)
• An optimized nanoparticle separator enabled by electron beam induced deposition (March 2010)
• Polarization Control of Electron Tunneling into Ferroelectric Surfaces (June 2009)
• Deterministic Control of Ferroelastic Switching in Multiferroic Materials (October 2009)
• Gordon Bell Prize Emerges From Ongoing Computational Nanoscience Endstation Effort (February 2009)
• A New Class of Supramolecular Wires (January 2009)
• Directed Assembly of Patterned Thin Films into Nanoparticle Ensembles (December 2008)
• Small Angle Neutron Scattering Study of Conformation of Oligo(ethylene glycol)-Grafted Polystyrene in Dilute Solutions: Effect of the Backbone Length (November 2008)
• Intrinsic Nucleation Mechanism of Polarization Switching on Ferroelectric Surfaces (November 2008)
• Novel Method to Reversibly and Uniformly Strain Epitaxial Oxide Thin Films Using a Piezoelectric Substrate (October 2008)
• User Project Brings New Understanding to Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (October 2008)
• Nanoscale Measurements of Glass Transition Temperature and Temperature-Dependent Mechanical Properties in Polymers (September 2008)
• Charge Order Fluctuations in One-Dimensional Silicides (September 2008)
• Environment-Dependent Oxygen Adsorption on Transition Metal Surfaces and Its Implications for Surface Reactivity (August 2008)
• In Situ Phase Separation of NiAu Alloy Nanoparticles for Preparing Highly Active Au/NiO CO Oxidation Catalysts (August 2008)
• Theory of Nonspecular Tunneling in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (July 2008)
• Standing Friedel Waves, Standing Spin Waves, and Indirect Bandgap Optical Transition in Nanostructures (July 2008)
• Synthesis of Well-defined Poly(amino acids): Polytyrosine Derivatives (July 2008)
• Actuatable Membranes Based on Polypyrrole-Coated Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers (April 2008)
• Atomistic Branching Mechanism for Carbon Nanotubes: Sulfur as the Triggering Agent (April 2008)
• Rapid Growth of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Pulsed Laser CVD (April 2008)
• Journal Cover - Journal of Applied Physics (March 2008)
• Transient-Mediated Fate Determination in a Transcriptional Circuit of HIV (March 2008)
• Spin Injection in Conjugated Polymer for Enhanced Solid-State Lighting Efficiency (January 2008)
• Molecular Simulations of Stretching Gold Nanowires in Solvents (September 2007)
• Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers Arrays Record Electrophysiological Signals (July 2007)
• Role of Sub-stoichiometric Defects in the Formation of Nano-particles (June 2007)
• Direct Synthesis of Mesoporous Carbon Microwires and Nanowires (May 2007)
• Formation of Single-Crystalline ZnO Nanotubes without Catalysts or Templates (April 2007)
• Using Neutron Reflectometry to Investigate Interactions across Polymer Thin Films (March 2007)
• Designing New Materials with Nanostructures as Building Blocks (February 2007)
• Nanoscale Control of Silica Morphology During Diatom Cell Wall Formation (October 2006)
• Nature of the Pairing Interaction in the Hubbard Model of High-Temperature Superconductors (September 2006)
• Probing Spin Flip Scattering in Ballistic Nanosystems (September 2006)
• Synthesis and Directed Growth of Single-Crystal TCNQ-Cu Organic Nanowires (July 2006)
• An Atomic Level Understanding of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (I): Structure and Defects (June 2006)
• Gene Network Shaping of Inherent Noise Spectra (February 2006)
• Understanding the Interaction Between Nanoscale Building Blocks and Biologically Relevant Molecules (September 2005)
• Well-Defined Deuterated Polymers for Neutron Scattering (2004)
• Novel Self-Assembled Nanostructures from Well-defined Amphiphilic Block Copolymers (2003)

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