......................................................................................................................... viii CHAPTER 1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION ..................................................................... 1 Microchannels in Biomedical Devices .................................................................................. 1 Research Motivation ............................

The application of the nano-sized materials continues to grow at a rapid rate in the fields of medicine, biotechnology, and environmental technology. Voltage-gated potassium currents play a key role in excitable cellular viability and function, especially in the central nervous system. The aim of this study was to investigate the actions of silver nano-particles (nano-Ag) on voltage-activated p...

OBJECTIVES Recent studies have shown that nano-sized carbon black is more toxic than large respirable carbon black because of its higher surface area. However, it is not clear if carbon black made larger by agglomeration demonstrates decreased toxicity. The purpose of this study was to verify if agglomeration affects the toxicity of carbon black using three differently prepared nano-sized carbo...

Bio-inspired communication (BC) is the next generation of communications at nano-scale, especially, in fluid media. Recent researches on BC still remains limited, questions on how to build a communication system from a bio-physical environment, or how to modulate information in such a environment are really challenging. Further, geometric shape of medium (free space, half space, box...) also af...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: AD: Alzheimer Disease; Apo-E: ApoLipoprotein-E; BBB: Blood Brain Barrier; Brainpeps: BBB Peptide Database; CNS: Central Nervous System; CSF: CerebroSpinal Fluid; EPIC: Engineered Peptide Compound; HAD: HIVAssociated Dementia; HIFU: High Intensity Focused Ultrasound; HIV: HIV Encephalitis; HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus; LPR: Lipopr...

Water Adsorption on Aggregates of Spherical Aerosol Nano Particles. (August 2005) Chu Nie, B.S., Nanjing University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. William H. Marlow A three dimensional integral equation is developed in order to compute water adsorption onto aggregates of spherical aerosol nano particles. The integral equation is derived from molecular density functional theory, with a weighte...

BACKGROUND Particulate matter (PM) can exacerbate allergic airway diseases. Although health effects of PM with a diameter of less than 100 nm have been focused, few studies have elucidated the correlation between the sizes of particles and aggravation of allergic diseases. We investigated the effects of nano particles with a diameter of 14 nm or 56 nm on antigen-related airway inflammation. M...

Nano fluids are having wide area of applications in heat transfer equipments. In the present work graphene nanoparticles, Dispersed in De-ionized water (DI), Ethylene Glycol (EG) based nano fluids were developed. Thermal conductivity and convective heat transfer properties of these nanofluids were systematically investigated. In the present investigation thermal convection of glycol based nanof...