Nanoscale Engineering

Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering

Online Publication Date: 01 January 2007 To cite this Article: Han, Yen-Lin, Muntz, Eric Phillip, Alexeenko, Alina and Young, Marcus (2007) 'Experimental and Computational Studies of Temperature Gradient-Driven Molecular Transport in Gas Flows through Nano/Microscale Channels', Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, 11:1, 151 175 To link to this article: DOI: 10.1080/1556726070133...

Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering

Thermomechanical Sensitivity of Microcantilevers in the Mid-Infrared Spectral Region B. Kwon a , C. Wang a , K. Park b , R. Bhargava c & W. P. King a a Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering , University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign , Urbana, Illinois b Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering , University of Rhode Island , Kingston, Rhode Island c Department of Bi...

Systems Engineering at the Nanoscale

50 INTRODUCTION A system is a composite of different elements that when brought together yield results that are not obtainable from the elements alone.1 The function of systems engineering is to guide the development of individual components into robust and efficient systems capable of autonomous operation as complex systems, where complex systems are defined as systems in which elements are di...

Engineering Nanoscale Biological Molecular Motors

In his book ‘What is life?’, Erwin Schrödinger equated death with the living cell decaying into thermal equilibrium with its surroundings. That is, when a cell is unable to continue using the free energy of its environment to keep order, it decays into a state of disorder. Evolution has led to incredibly beautiful, complex, and astonishing constructs called molecular motors to maintain order an...

Nanoscale Engineering for Biomaterial Surfaces