Atomic & Molecular BioNanotechnologyG.Ali Mansoori, Bio & Chem Eng Dept.s

Prime Grant Support: ARO, KU, UMSL, ANL Problem Statement and Motivation

Technical ApproachesRelated Publications

• Diamondoids and Gold Nanoparticle - based nanobiotechnology - Applications for Drug Delivery.

• Quantum and statistical mechanics of small systems - Development of ab initio models and equations of state of nanosystems. Phase transitions, fragmentations.

• Molecular dynamics simulation of nano systems - Non-extensivity and internal pressure anomaly.

• DNA-Dendrimers nano-cluster formation.

• Nanoparticles-Protein Attachmrnt

•Nano-Imaging (AFM & STM), Microelectrophoresis

•Ab Initio computations (Applications of Gaussian 98)

• Nano-Systems Simulations (Molecular Dynamics)

•Nano-Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

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•DNA-Dendrimer Nano-Cluster Electrostatics (CTNS, 2005)

•Nonextensivity and Nonintensivity in Nanosystems - A Molecular Dynamics Sumulation J Comput & Theort Nanoscience (CTNS,2005)

•Principles of Nanotechnology (Book) World Scientific Pub. Co (2005)

• Statistical Mechanical Modeling and its Application to Nanosystems Handbook of Theor & Comput Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2005)

•Phase-Transition and Fragmentation in Nano-Confined Fluids J Comput & Theort Nanoscience (2005).

•Interatomic Potential Models for Nanostructures" Encycl Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (2004).