Artful interfaces within biological materials

Neutron reflection from interfaces with biological and biomimetic materials

During the past decade, neutron reflectivity has increasingly become an important technique for the characterization of biological and biomimetic thin films. Advancements in instrumentation, sample environment and measurement protocols now make it possible to obtain Angstrom-level information about the composition of these materials along the axis perpendicular to the plane of the membrane. A n...

Artful planning

European Journal of Information Systems (2006) 15, 113–115. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000622 This issue of the European Journal of Information Systems includes our special section on business agility as it relates to information systems. In preparing this editorial for the entire issue (the special section has its own introductory editorial by the guest editors), I discovered a common thread a...

Designing Scalable Biological Interfaces

Interfaces Within Graphene Nanoribbons

We study the conductance through two types of graphene nanostructures: nanoribbon junctions in which the width changes from wide to narrow, and curved nanoribbons. In the wide-narrow structures, substantial reflection occurs from the wide-narrow interface, in contrast to the behavior of the much studied electron gas waveguides. In the curved nanoribbons, the conductance is very sensitive to det...

Designing Scalable Biological Interfaces