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Label-free biosensors enable the monitoring of biomolecular interactions in real-time, which is key to the analysis of the binding characteristics of biomolecules. While refractometric optical biosensors are sensitive and well-established,…
Molecular communications (MC), where molecules are used to encode, transmit, and receive information, is a promising means of enabling the coordination of nanoscale devices. The paradigm has been extensively studied from various aspects,…
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In this paper, we consider a molecular diffusion based communications link that conveys information on the macro-scale (several metres). The motivation is to apply molecular-based communications to challenging electromagnetic environments.…
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A technology for recording electrical activity of large neuron populations at arbitrary depth in brain tissues with less than cell spatial and millisecond temporal resolutions was the most craving dream of neuroscientists and a long pursued…
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Reactions at solid-water interfaces play a foundational role in water treatment systems, catalysis, chemical separations, and in predicting chemical fate and transport in the environment. Over the last century, experimental measurements and…
The difficulty in determining the mass of a sample increases as its size diminishes. At the nanoscale, there are no direct methods for resolving the mass of single molecules or nanoparticles and so more sophisticated approaches based on…
The electrochemical processes in energy storage materials are generally linked with changes of molar volume of the host compound. Here, the frequency dependent strain response of 1D electrochemically active systems to periodic electric bias…
High-resolution spectroscopy allows one to probe weak interactions and to detect subtle phenomena. While such measurements are routinely performed on atoms and molecules in the gas phase, spectroscopy of adsorbed species on surfaces is…
Local, bulk response functions, e.g permittivity, and the macroscopic Maxwell equations completely specify the classical electromagnetic problem, which features only wavelength $\lambda$ and geometric scales. The above neglect of intrinsic…
We provide a theoretical framework for the prediction and interpretation of momentum dependent phonon spectra due to coherent inelastic scattering of electrons. We complete the approach with first principles lattice dynamics using periodic…
Polar dielectric nanoresonators can support hybrid photon-phonon modes termed surface phonon polaritons with lengthscales below the diffraction limit. In the deep sub-wavelength regime the optical response of these systems was recently…
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