Sculpting Liquids with Ultrathin Shells

Nanoscale Dynamics in Ultrathin Liquids Visualized with TEM

Nanoscale imaging of frozen aqueous specimens and solid materials with transmission electron microscopes (TEM) has revolutionized our understanding in biological and material sciences. However, there is an ample number of important problems in life and physical sciences that occur only in liquid environments. Therefore, there is an incredible advantage of being able to image nanoscale processes...

Surface Reconstruction with Constrained Sculpting Surface Reconstruction with Constrained Sculpting Surface Reconstruction with Constrained Sculpting

The problem of three-dimensional surface reconstruction from a set of unorganized set of points sampled from the surface of an object is important in many applications, such as computer vision, computer-aided design and solid modeling. In recent years several algorithms have been presented for surface reconstruction with provable guarantee on the closeness of the approximation. This thesis pres...

Solid-Like Dynamics in Ultrathin Films of Polymeric Liquids

Ag Nanorods Coated with Ultrathin TiO2 Shells as Stable and Recyclable SERS Substrates

TiO2-coated Ag nanorods (Ag@TiO2 NRs) have been fabricated as multifunctional surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates. Uniform TiO2 shells could sufficiently protect the internal Ag NRs against oxidation and sulfuration, thus the temporal stability of SERS substrates was markedly improved. Meanwhile, due to the synergetic effect between crystalline TiO2 and Ag, the nanocomposites co...

Synthesis and characterization of indium oxide nanobubbles with ultrathin single crystal shells.

Nanobubbles with ultrathin single crystal shells, a new kind of closed nanostructure, have been synthesized from a nonlayered indium oxide semiconductor.