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Submissions from 2009

Searching for graphite in “God’s Own Country", John A. Jaszczak

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The graphites of New York: Scientific and aesthetic surprises, John A. Jaszczak, Steven A. Chamberlain, and G. W. Robinson

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Theoretical mimicry of biomembranes, Parimal Kar, Max Seel, Thomas Weidemann, et al.

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Simple approximations for condensational growth, A. B. Kostinski

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Droplet Dynamics: Raindrops large and small, Alexander Kostinski and Raymond Shaw

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Simple dead-time corrections for discrete time series of non-Poisson data, Michael L. Larsen and Alexander Kostinski

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Boron and boron carbide materials: Nanostructures and crystalline solids, Kah Chun Lau, Yoke Khin Yap, and Ravindra Pandey

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Superhydrophobicity of boron nitride nanotubes drown on silicon substrates, Chee Huei Lee, Jaroslaw Drelich, and Yoke Khin Yap

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Introduction to B-C-N materials, Chee Huei Lee, Vijaya Kayastha, Jiesheng Wang, et al.

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Patterned growth of long and clean boron nitride nanotubes on substrates, Chee Huei Lee, Ming Xie, Jiesheng Wang, et al.

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Magnetophotonic crystals: Nonreciprocity, birefringence and confinement, Miguel Levy, Amir A. Jalali, and Xiaoyue Huang

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Length-dependence of electron transfer coupling matrix in polyene wires: Ab initio molecular orbital theory study, Govind Mallick, Shashi P. Karna, Haiying He, et al.

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Quantum confinement and phase transition in PbS nanowire: A first principles study, Subhasish Mandal and Ranjit Pati

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Free-energy-driven folding and thermodynamics of the 67-residue protein GS-α3W-A large-scale Monte Carlo study, Jan H. Meinke and Ulrich H.E. Hansmann

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Do all raindrops fall at terminal speed?, Guillermo Montero-Martinez, Alexander Kostinski, Raymond Shaw, et al.

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Novel spherical boron clusters and structural transition from 2D quasi-planar structures to 3D double-rings, Saikat Mukhopadhyay, Haying He, Ravindra Pandey, et al.

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Current performance gains from utilizing the GPU or the ASIC MDGRAPE-3 within an enhanced poisson boltzmann approach, Tetsu Narumi, Kenji Yasuoka, Makoto Taiji, et al.

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Enhanced field emission stability and density produced by conical bundles of catalyst-free carbon nanotubes, Archana Pandey, Abhishek Prasad, Jason P. Moscatello, et al.

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Comparing field emission stability of lithography-free, modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes, Archana Pandey, Abhishek Prasad, Jason P. Moscatello, et al.

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Glucose biosensors based on vertically-aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes, Archana Pandey, Abhishek Prasad, Jason P. Moscatello, et al.

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Controlling interlayer exchange coupling in one-dimensional Fe/Pt multilayered nanowire, Puspamitra Panigrahi and Ranjit Pati

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Gate field induced electronic current modulation in a single wall boron nitride nanotube: Molecular scale field effect transistor, Ranjit Pati, Puspamitra Panigrahi, and Partha Pratim Pal

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Ab-initio calculation of elastic constants of crystalline systems with the CRYSTAL code, W. F. Perger, J. Criswell, B. Civalleri, et al.

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Reconstruction and stability of secondary structure elements in the context of protein structure prediction, Alexei A. Podtelezhnikov and David L. Wild

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Ensemble optimization techniques for the simulation of slowly equilibrating systems, S. Trebst, D. A. Huse, E. Gull, et al.

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Multiwalled bron nitride nanotubes: Growth, properties, and applications, Jiesheng Wang, Chee Huei Lee, Yoshio Bando, et al.

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B-C-N nantubes and related structures, Yoke Khin Yap

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Growth mechanisms of vertically-aligned carbon, boron nitride, and zinc oxide nanotubes, Yoke Khin Yap

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In-situ nanomechanical-electrical testing of one-dimensional materials, Yoke Khin Yap and Reza Shahbazian-Yassar

Submissions from 2008

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Aerosols' influence on the interplay between condensation, evaporation and rain in warm cumulus cloud, O. Altaratz, I. Koren, T. Reisin, et al.

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Measurements of the vapor pressure of supercooled water using infrared spectroscopy, Will Cantrell, Eli Ochshorn, Alexander Kostinski, et al.

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All-atom simulations of proteins, Ulrich H.E. Hansmann

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Toward Reliable Simulations of Protein Folding, Misfolding and Aggregation, Ulrich H.E. Hansmann

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The effect of clustering on the uncertainty of differential reflectivity measurements, A. R. Jameson and A. B. Kostinski

Nanotech Innovations: Nanotechnology Enterprise at Michigan Technological University., John A. Jaszczak, Mary Raber, Michael Bennett, et al.

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Drizzle rates versus cloud depths for marine stratocumuli, A. B. Kostinski

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Entropic aspects of supercooled droplet freezing, Alexander Kostinski and Will Cantrell

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Effective growth of boron nitride nanotubes by thermal chemical vapor deposition, Chee Huei Lee, Jiesheng Wang, Vijaya Kayastha, et al.

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SMMP v. 3.0-Simulating proteins and protein interactions in Python and Fortran, Jan H. Meinke, Sandipan Mohanty, Frank Eisenmenger, et al.

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ZnO nanosquids: Branching nanowires from nanotubes and nanorods, Samuel L. Mensah, Abhishek Prasad, Jiesheng Wang, et al.

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Giant intrinsic carrier mobilities in graphene and its bilayer, S. V. Morozov, K. S. Novoselov, M. I. Katsnelson, et al.

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Controlled growth of carbon, boron nitride, and zinc oxide nanotubes, Jason P. Moscatello, Jiesheng Wang, Benjamin Ulmen, et al.

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Magnetic properties of one-dimensional Ni/Cu and Ni/Al multilayered nanowires: Role of nonmagnetic spacers, Partha Pratim Pal and Ranjit Pati

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Effect of manganese and cobalt doping on conductivity of ZnO based varistors: A study by complex plane modulus, Archana Pandey, Abhishek Prasad, Sindhu Singh, et al.

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Origin of negative differential resistance in a strongly coupled single molecule-metal junction device, Ranjit Pati, Mike McClain, and Anirban Bandyopadhyay

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Alternative nanostructured sensors: Nanowires, nanobelts, and novel nanostructures, Abhishek Prasad, Samuel L. Mensah, Zhengwei Pan, et al.

Developing nano education at a technological university: Science, technology and social implications of nanotechnology, Bruce E. Seely and John A. Jaszczak

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Optical and electrical characterization of conducting polymer-single walled carbon nanotube composite films, Inderpreet Singh, P. K. Bhatnagar, P. C. Mathur, et al.

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Enrichment of surface-active compounds in coalescing cloud drops, Ilya Taraniuk, Alexander Kostinski, and Yinon Rudich

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Self-consistent calculations of strain-induced band gap changes in semiconducting (n, 0) carbon nanotubes, Pavan Kumar Valavala, Douglas R. Banyai, Max Seel, et al.

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Growth of p-type Si nanotubes by catalytic plasma treatments, Ming Xie, Jiesheng Wang, Zhiyong Fan, et al.

Submissions from 2007

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Greenockite and associated uranium-vanadium minerals from the Huron River Uranium Prospect, Baraga County, Michigan, S. M. Carlson, George W. Robinson, M. J. Elder, et al.

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Strain-induced formation of carbon and boron clusters in boron carbide during dynamic indentation, Dipankar Ghosh, Ghatu Subhash, Chee Huei Lee, et al.

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Electronic structure mechanism of spin-polarized electron transport in a Ni-C60-Ni system, Haiying He, Ravindra Pandey, and Shashi P. Karna

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Parallel tempering molecular dynamics folding simulation of a signal peptide in explicit water, Siegfried Höfinger, Benjamin Almeida, and Ulrich H.E Hansmann

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Micro- and nano-scale graphite cones and tubes from Hackman Valley, Kola Peninsula, Russia, John A. Jaszczak, Svetlana Dimovski, S. A. Hackney, et al.

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Nano- and micro-scale graphite cones and tubes from Hackman Valley, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia, John A. Jaszczak, S. A. Hackney, and S. Dimovski

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Graphene in extremely high magnetic fields, Z. Jiang, Y. Zhang, Y. W. Tan, et al.

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Systematic study of the boundary composition in poisson boltzmann calculations, Parimal Kar, Yanjie Wei, Ulrich H.E Hansmann, et al.

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Effect of graphitic order on field emission stability of carbon nanotubes, Vijaya Kayastha, Benjamin Ulmen, and Yoke Khin Yap

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Synthesis of vertically aligned single- and double-walled carbon nanotubes without etching agents, Vijaya Kayastha, Shun Wu, Jason P. Moscatello, et al.

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Critical comments to results of investigations of drop collisions in turbulent clouds, A. Khain, M. Pinsky, T. Elperin, et al.

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Formation of single crystalline ZnO nanotubes without catalysts and templates, Samuel Mensah, Vijaya Kayastha, Ilia Ivanov, et al.

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Selective growth of pure and long ZnO nanowires by controlled vapor concentration gradients, Samuel L. Mensah, Vijaya Kayastha, and Yoke Khin Yap

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Controllable Tamm states in magnetophotonic crystal, A. M. Merzlikin, A. P. Vinogradov, A. V. Dorofeenko, et al.

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Dielectrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotubes with controllable density and alignment, Jason P. Moscatello, Vijaya Kayastha, Archana Pandey, et al.

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Growth of carbon, boron nitride and ZnO nanotubes for biosensors, Jason P. Moscatello, Jiesheng Wang, Benjamin Ulmen, et al.

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Tuning the ferromagnetism of one-dimensional Fe ∕ Pt ∕ Fe multilayer barcode nanowires via the barcode layer effect, Puspamitra Panigrahi and Ranjit Pati

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Growth of single crystalline ZnO nanotubes and nanosquids, Abhishek Prasad, Samuel L. Mensah, Jiesheng Wang, et al.

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Controlling spin-polarized electron transport through a molecule: The role of molecular conformation, L. Senapati, Ranjit Pati, and S. C. Erwin

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Surfactant properties of atmospheric and model humic‐like substances (HULIS), Ilya Taraniuk, Ellen Graber, Alexander Kostinski, et al.

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Beyond Dimerization: A Membrane-dependent Activation Model for Interleukin-4 Receptor-mediated Signalling, Thomas Weidemann, Siegfried Hofinger, Kurt Müller, et al.

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Self-assembly of silicon nanotubes, Ming Xie, Jiesheng Wang, Chee Huei Lee, et al.

Works from 2006

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Calibration of the surface array of the Pierre Auger Observatory, X. Bertou, P. S. Allison, C. Bonifazi, et al.

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An enhanced version of SMMP-open-source software package for simulation of proteins, Frank Eisenmenger, Ulrich H.E. Hansmann, Shura Hayryan, et al.

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Theoretical study of molecule mediated spin-polarized electron tunneling between magnetic materials, Haiying He, Ravindra Pandey, and Shashi P. Karna

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Multimodal and birefringence effects in magnetic photonic crystals, X. Huang, R. Li, H. C. Yang, et al.

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Reconsideration of the physical and empirical origins of Z–R relations in radar meteorology, A. R. Jameson and Alexander Kostinski

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Spurious power‐law relations among rainfall and radar parameters, A. R. Jameson and Alexander Kostinski

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Planting seeds: Introducing nanotechnology education into engineering curricula, John A. Jaszczak and Bruce E. Seely

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The texture of rain: Exploring stochastic micro-structure at small scales, A. B. Kostinski, M. L. Larsen, and A. R. Jameson

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Pupil phase apodization for imaging of faint companions in prescribed regions, Alexander Kostinski and Weidong Yang

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Theoretical study of electron transport in boron nanotubes, Kah Chun Lau, Ravindra Pandey, and Ranjit Pati

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Spin-polarized electron transport of a self-assembled organic monolayer on a Ni(111) substrate: An organic spin switch, Haiying Liu, Ravindra Pandey, Ranjit Pati, et al.

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Spin 3/2 Zeeman perturbed NQR in the presence of slow sample rotation, R. P. Panguluri and B. H. Suits

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Surface mediated isotope exchange reactions between water and gaseous deuterium, Teboh F. Roland, Jacek Borysow, and Manfred Fink

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Transient detection using panoramic all-sky cameras, Lior Shamir

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Towards quantifying droplet clustering in clouds, Raymond Shaw, Alexander Kostinski, and Michael L. Larsen

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Phase signature for particle detection with digital in-line holography, Weidong Yang, Alexander Kostinski, and Raymond Shaw

Works from 2005

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Generalized-ensemble simulations of all-atom protein models, Vasyl Aleksenko, Wooseop Kwak, and Ulrich H.E. Hansmann

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Reexamination of the structure of MoO(O2)2 (H2O)(hmpa), hmpa=hexamethylphosphoramide by crystallographic and theoretical means, Craig A. Bayse, Ampa Jimtaisong, Anil K. Kandalam, et al.

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Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation of defect-mediated organization in quantum dot self-assembly, Da Gao, Adam Kaczynski, and John A. Jaszczak

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Mechanism for spatial organization in quantum dot self-assembly, Da Gao, Adam Kaczynski, and John A. Jaszczak

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Exploring protein energy landscapes with hierarchical clustering, Dominik Gront, Ulrich H.E Hansmann, and Andrzej Kolinski

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Protein structure prediction by tempering spatial constraints, Dominik Gront, Andrzej Kolinski, and Ulrich H.E. Hansmann

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High-density vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes with tubular structures, Vijaya Kayastha, Yoke Khin Yap, Zhengwei Pan, et al.

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Fluctuations and luck in droplet growth by coalescence, Alexander Kostinski and Raymond Shaw

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Obtaining the drop size distribution, Alexander Kostinski and Raymond Shaw

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Observations and analysis of uncorrelated rain, Michael L. Larsen, Alexander Kostinski, and Ali Tokay

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A theoretical study of vibrational properties of neutral and cationic B < inf> 12 clusters, Kah Chun Lau, Mrinalini Deshpande, and Ravindra Pandey