44 results match your criteria: "Center for Laser Applications[Affiliation]"
J Phys Chem B
October 2024
Computational and Experimental Aerospace Research Lab (CEAR), University of Tennessee Space Institute, 411 B. H. Goethert Pkwy, Tullahoma, Tennessee 37388, United States.
Ionic liquids (ILs) have proven extremely useful for a wide variety of roles, including as propellants for electrospray thrusters (ETs), due to their unique physical and chemical properties, as well as the potential tunability of those properties, through chemical engineering. However, there is a lack of literature exploring the effects of IL properties on ET operation. This paper presents experimental results investigating key physical properties of the common ILs 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (EMI-TFSI), 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium trifluoromethanesulfonate (BMI-TFO), EAN, and Bmpyr-DCA not provided by manufacturers or reported in the literature, namely, their electrochemical stability windows (ESWs) and contact angles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Surf Sci
October 2023
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN 37388.
Laparoscopes can suffer from fogging and contamination difficulties, resulting in a reduced field of view during surgery. A series of diamond-like carbon films, doped with SiO, were produced by pulsed laser deposition for evaluation as biocompatible, antifogging coatings. DLC films doped with SiO demonstrated hydrophilic properties with water contact angles under 40°.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNanomicro Lett
June 2023
Nanodynamics and High-Efficiency Lab for Propulsion and Power, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering, UT Space Institute (University of Tennessee-Knoxville), Tullahoma, TN, 37388, USA.
Nanostructured catalyst-integrated electrodes with remarkably reduced catalyst loadings, high catalyst utilization and facile fabrication are urgently needed to enable cost-effective, green hydrogen production via proton exchange membrane electrolyzer cells (PEMECs). Herein, benefitting from a thin seeding layer, bottom-up grown ultrathin Pt nanosheets (Pt-NSs) were first deposited on thin Ti substrates for PEMECs via a fast, template- and surfactant-free electrochemical growth process at room temperature, showing highly uniform Pt surface coverage with ultralow loadings and vertically well-aligned nanosheet morphologies. Combined with an anode-only Nafion 117 catalyst-coated membrane (CCM), the Pt-NS electrode with an ultralow loading of 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Biomater
February 2023
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee Space Institute, 411 B. H. Goethert Pkwy, Tullahoma, TN 37388, USA.
Graphene-based materials have been shown to have advantageous properties in biomedical and dental applications due to their high mechanical, physiochemical, antibacterial, and stem cell differentiating properties. Although graphene-based materials have displayed appropriate biocompatible properties when used in implant materials for orthopedic applications, little research has been performed to specifically test the biocompatibility of graphene for dental applications. The oral environment, compared to the body, varies greatly and must be considered when evaluating biocompatibility requirements for dental applications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLasers Med Sci
October 2022
Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Hacettepe University, Sıhhıye, 06100, Ankara, Turkey.
This study aims to evaluate the effect of diode laser- or LED-activated tooth bleaching on color change, tooth sensitivity(TS), temperature variation, and gingival irritation (GI) for 9 months. Thirty-five subjects having anterior teeth with a color of A2 or darker were enrolled in the study. In a split-mouth design, one side of each arch was activated by a diode laser (Epic X, Biolase), and the other side was activated by an LED (Radii Plus, SDI) in conjunction with a bleaching agent (35%, Whiteness HP).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Phys Condens Matter
October 2020
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California - Davis, 3100 Bainer Hall, One Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616, USA, Davis, California, UNITED STATES.
A method is presented for synthesizing core-shell nanoparticles with a magnetic core and a porous shell suitable for drug delivery and other medical applications. The core contains multiple $\gamma$-Fe$_2$O$_3$ nanoparticles ($\sim$15~nm) enclosed in a SiO$_2$ ($\sim$100-200~nm) matrix using either methyl (denoted TMOS-$\gamma$-Fe$_2$O$_3$) or ethyl (TEOS-$\gamma$-Fe$_2$O$_3$) template groups. Low-temperature M{\"o}ssbauer spectroscopy showed that the magnetic nanoparticles have the maghemite structure, $\gamma$-Fe$_2$O$_3$, with all the vacancies in the octahedral sites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMolecules
February 2020
Wellinq Medical, Van der Waals Park 22, 9351 VC Leek, The Netherlands.
This article discusses laser-induced laboratory-air plasma measurements and analysis of hydroxyl (OH) ultraviolet spectra. The computations of the OH spectra utilize line strength data that were developed previously and that are now communicated for the first time. The line strengths have been utilized extensively in interpretation of recorded molecular emission spectra and have been well-tested in laser-induced fluorescence applications for the purpose of temperature inferences from recorded data.
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January 2020
Wellinq Medical, Van der Waals Park 22, 9351 VC Leek, The Netherlands.
This article reports new measurements of laser-induced plasma hypersonic expansion measurements of diatomic molecular cyanide (CN). Focused, high-peak-power 1064 nm Q-switched radiation of the order of 1 TW/cm 2 generated optical breakdown plasma in a cell containing a 1:1 molar gas mixture of N 2 and CO 2 at a fixed pressure of 1.1 × 10 5 Pascal and in a 100 mL/min flow of the mixture.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc
May 2017
Institute of Applied Physics, Johannes Kepler University, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria. Electronic address:
Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc
March 2017
Institute of Applied Physics, Johannes Kepler University, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria. Electronic address:
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for composition analysis of polymer materials results in optical spectra containing atomic and ionic emission lines as well as molecular emission bands. In the present work, the molecular bands are analyzed to obtain spectroscopic information about the plasma state in an effort to quantify the content of different elements in the polymers. Polyethylene (PE) and a rubber material from tire production are investigated employing 157nmF laser and 532nm Nd:YAG laser ablation in nitrogen and argon gas background or in air.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Spectrosc
February 2017
Center for Laser Applications, The University of Tennessee Space Institute, USA.
The spectroscopy of alkaline earth metal compounds is stimulated by the use of these compounds in practical areas ranging from technology to medicine. Applications in the field of pyrotechnics were the motivation for a series of flame emission spectroscopy experiments with strontium-containing compounds. Specifically, strontium monoxide (SrO) was studied as a candidate radiator for the diagnosis of methane-air flames.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFACS Appl Mater Interfaces
August 2016
Center for Laser Applications, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, Tennessee 37388, United States.
The basal lamina or basement membrane (BM) is a key physiological system that participates in physicochemical signaling between tissue types. Its formation and function are essential in tissue maintenance, growth, angiogenesis, disease progression, and immunology. In vitro models of the BM (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChem Commun (Camb)
February 2016
Department of Physics, University of Virginia, 382 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA.
A new quasi-two-dimensional oxyfluoride, Sr1-δFeO2-xFx, has been successfully synthesized by combining topotactic fluoridation and CaH2 reduction. The introduction of F through this synthesis provides a new route to introducing charge carriers into the square layered lattice through the formation of Fe(1+) ions. While the average crystal symmetry and magnetic structure remain the same as in the parent compound, the addition of F results in an enhanced buckling of the Fe(O/F)2 square plaquettes that is most likely topologically driven.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Biol Eng
October 2015
Center for Laser Applications, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN USA.
Background: The interaction of stem cells with their culture substrates is critical in controlling their fate and function. Declining stemness of adult-derived human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) during in vitro expansion on tissue culture polystyrene (TCPS) severely limits their therapeutic efficacy prior to cell transplantation into damaged tissues. Thus, various formats of natural and synthetic materials have been manipulated in attempts to reproduce in vivo matrix environments in which hMSCs reside.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnal Chem
December 2015
‡Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States.
There is a critical need for high-speed multiparameter photophysical measurements of large libraries of fluorescent probe variants for imaging and biosensor development. We present a microfluidic flow cytometer that rapidly assays 10(4)-10(5) member cell-based fluorophore libraries, simultaneously measuring fluorescence lifetime and photobleaching. Together, these photophysical characteristics determine imaging performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiomicrofluidics
July 2014
Center for Laser Applications, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, Tennessee 37388-9700, USA.
Stromal cells in the tumor microenvironment play a key role in the metastatic properties of a tumor. It is recognized that cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) and endothelial cells secrete factors capable of influencing tumor cell migration into the blood or lymphatic vessels. We developed a microfluidic device that can be used to image the interactions between stromal cells and tumor cell spheroids in a three dimensional (3D) microenvironment while enabling external control of interstitial flow at an interface, which supports endothelial cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Spectrosc
May 2015
University of Tennessee Space Institute, The Center for Laser Applications, 411 B.H. Goethert Parkway, Tullahoma, TN 37388 USA.
Stark-broadened emission profiles for the hydrogen alpha and beta Balmer series lines in plasma are measured to characterize electron density and temperature. Plasma is generated using a typical laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) arrangement that employs a focused Q-switched neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd : YAG) laser, operating at the fundamental wavelength of 1064 nm. The temporal evolution of the hydrogen Balmer series lines is explored using LIBS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Spectrosc
May 2015
The Center for Laser Applications, The University of Tennessee Space Institute, 411 B.H. Goethert Parkway, Tullahoma, TN 37388 USA.
We report temperature inferences from time-resolved emission spectra of a micro-sized plasma following laser ablation of an aluminum sample. The laser-induced breakdown event is created with the use of nanosecond pulsed laser radiation. Plasma temperatures are inferred from the aluminum monoxide spectroscopic emissions of the aluminum sample by fitting experimental to theoretically calculated spectra with a nonlinear fitting algorithm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSensors (Basel)
August 2014
Center for Laser Applications, University of Tennessee Space Institute, 411 B. H. Goethert Parkway, MS 35, Tullahoma, TN 37388, USA.
Cost-effective pharmaceutical drug discovery depends on increasing assay throughput while reducing reagent needs. To this end, we are developing an ultrasensitive, fluorescence-based platform that incorporates a nano/micro-fluidic chip with an array of closely spaced channels for parallelized optical readout of single-molecule assays. Here we describe the use of direct femtosecond laser machining to fabricate several hundred closely spaced channels on the surfaces of fused silica substrates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Spectrosc
August 2014
University of Tennessee Space Institute, Center for Laser Applications, Tullahoma, TN 37388 USA.
Our measurements of micro-plasma following laser-induced optical breakdown of nitro compound explosive simulants, here 3-nitrobenzoic acid, show well-developed molecular spectra during the first several hundreds of nanoseconds. Analysis of recorded carbon spectra is accomplished using accurate line strengths for the diatomic molecular Swan system. Presence of hydrogen-beta allows us to infer electron density in the plasma evolution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Spectrosc
August 2014
The University of Tennessee Space Institute, Center for Laser Applications, 411 B.H. Goethert Parkway, Tullahoma, TN 37388 USA.
The temperature in an aluminized propellant is determined as a function of height and plume depth from diatomic AlO and thermal emission spectra. Higher in the plume, 305 and 508 mm from the burning surface, measured AlO emission spectra show an average temperature with 1σ errors of 2980 ± 80 K. Lower in the plume, 152 mm from the burning surface, an average AlO emission temperature of 2450 ± 100 K is inferred.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicrosc Microanal
February 2014
Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
A microcompressor is a precision mechanical device that flattens and immobilizes living cells and small organisms for optical microscopy, allowing enhanced visualization of sub-cellular structures and organelles. We have developed an easily fabricated device, which can be equipped with microfluidics, permitting the addition of media or chemicals during observation. This device can be used on both upright and inverted microscopes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNanomedicine
January 2014
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. Electronic address:
Unlabelled: The major goal of this study was to create easy-to-use, reusable substrates capable of storing any peptides or bioactive molecules for a desired period of time until cells uptake them without the need for bioactive molecule or peptide-specific techniques. Nanopore arrays of uniform size and distribution were machined into fused silica substrates using femtosecond laser ablation and loaded with peptides by simple adsorption. The nanopore substrates were validated by examining the effect of N-acetyl-seryl-aspartyl-lysyl-proline (Ac-SDKP) loaded nanopores on macrophage phagocytosis and intracellular production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) with and without the pro-inflammatory lipopolysaccharide (LPS).
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December 2012
Center for Laser Applications, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, Tennessee 37388, USA.
We present results including measurement and analysis of titanium monoxide. Pulsed, nanosecond Nd:YAG laser radiation is used in a typical laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy arrangement to record the spectra. This scheme provides experiments analogous to pulsed laser deposition tactics and allows for time-resolved spectroscopic analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFColloids Surf B Biointerfaces
February 2013
Center for Laser Applications, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN, USA.
Understanding cellular interactions with culture substrate features is important to advance cell biology and regenerative medicine. When surface topographical features are considerably larger in vertical dimension and are spaced at least one cell dimension apart, the features act as 3D physical barriers that can guide cell adhesion, thereby altering cell behavior. In the present study, we investigated competitive interactions of cells with neighboring cells and matrix using a novel nanoneedle gradient array.
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