Supplementary Materials

 

Bio-Molecular Motors Homework: The reference paper for the BMM homework (PDF file)

 

Nano-Scale Engineering Homework #1 on ALD and MLD

Power Point slide that illustrates ALD: PPT File

A paper on ABC MLD: PDF file of the Paper

 

Molecular Biology

Glossary of Terms and General Info (2008 edition)

 

Micro-Scale Engineering

An Integrated Nanoliter DNA Analysis Device (M. Burns et al.) (This is the device to be covered in the class)

Self-contained, fully integrated biochip (Liu et al.) (This is another device to be covered in the class)

 

Nano-Scale Engineering

Self-Assembled Monolayers of Thiolates on Metals as a Form of Nanotechnology

Supplementary materials for the lecture on biochemical sensors
Paper #1 for Biochemical sensors
Paper#2 for Biochemical sensors

 

 

 

 

Materials Posted in Previous Semesters (for your reference only)

 

Nanoparticles for Bio-medical applications:

Functionalisation of magnetic nanoparticles for applications in biomedicine, Berry and Curtis, 2003

The preparation of magnetic nanoparticles for applications in biomedicine, Tartaj et al., 2003

 

Bio- or chemical sensors:

Recent advances in biologically sensitive field-effect transistors (BioFETs); Schöning and Poghossianb; 2002; to be covered on 3-10-2004

Microplate for chemical sensor research, Semancik et al., 2001; to be covered on 3-10-2004

Nanowire Nanosensors for Highly Sensitive and Selective Detection of Biological and Chemical Species, Cui et al., 2001

Nanotube Molecular Wires as Chemical Sensors, Kong et al., 2000

 

Bio-molecular motors:

Kinesin motors and electrophoresis/dielectrophoresis (Jia et al, 2004); this paper was discussed in details and is related to homework assigned.

SU-8 and kinesin motors (Moorjani et al., 2003)

F1-ATPase attachment and force measurement (Schmidt et al., 2004); this paper describe details about (His) tag and selective attachment.

F1-ATPase attachment (Bachand et al., 2001); this is a major milestone and covers nanoimprint technology.

 

Molecular Biology:

Molecular Biology – Basic Reading Materials on Chemicals, DNA, RNA and Proteins

Molecular Biology of the Cell – Book On-Line

 

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Nano-Scale Engineering:

Observation of Three Growth Mechanisms in Self-Assembled Monolayers (Carraro et al., PDF)

Using Self-Assembly for the Fabrication of Nano-Scale Electronic and Photonic Devices (Parviz et al., PDF)

Environmental Technologies at Nano-Scale (Masciangioli and Zhang, PDF)

 

BioMEMS papers:

An Integrated Nanoliter DNA Analysis Device (M. Burns et al.) (This was the device covered in the class)

Microfabricated Devices for Genetic Diagnostics by (MASTRANGELO et al.) (It is a great review paper providing supplementary information to the above paper; but it is a long paper though).

Dielectrophoresis-Based Sample Handling in General-Purpose Programmable Diagnostic Instruments (GASCOYNE and VYKOUKAL, 2003); this paper was discussed in details in the class).

A controlled-release microchip (Santini et al, 1999); this was the drug-delivery device discussed.

Microsystems for Drug and Gene Delivery (REED and LYE, 2003); part of this paper for micro-needles was discussed.