Sentences with phrase «material scientists»

Part of the funding will be used to train the next generation of materials scientists familiar with the challenges of growing high quality crystals in this rapidly expanding field.

But for materials scientists, the lessons didn't stop there.

But materials scientists now believe that it should be possible to make substances that will extend the scale.

A central factor materials scientists study when exploring phenomena about glass, like its formation, is the temperature where this occurs, the glass - transition temperature.

Unfortunately, reliably making these structures is currently beyond the reach of materials scientists because there is little understanding of what controls the assembly of the particles.

Materials scientists use density functional theory to investigate the electronic properties of condensed matter systems.

Now, a group of materials scientists thinks that it's hit upon a solution.

Understanding the structure of glasses is more than an intellectual exercise — materials scientists stand to advance from the knowledge, which could lead to better control of the aging of glasses.

Still, a few observations about the economics and training of materials scientists can be made.

A revolution is coming in flexible electronic technologies as cheaper, more flexible, organic transistors come on the scene to replace expensive, rigid, silicone - based semiconductors, but not enough is known about how bending in these new thin - film electronic devices will affect their performance, say materials scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

AMHERST, Mass. — A revolution is coming in flexible electronic technologies as cheaper, more flexible, organic transistors come on the scene to replace expensive, rigid, silicone - based semiconductors, but not enough is known about how bending in these new thin - film electronic devices will affect their performance, say materials scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

«It's relatively easy to grow thin layers of material,» said Dr. Maria Sushko, a PNNL materials scientist who worked on the study.

A schwarzite created on a 3 - D printer by materials scientists at Rice University makes real a mathematical theory formed more than 100 years ago.

Materials scientists working to build tiny machines called microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) struggle with surface interactions, called van der Waals forces, that can make nanomaterials sticky to the point of permanent adhesion, a phenomenon known as «stiction».

«This research provides fundamental answers needed to produce high - quality, well - defined materials that will work as electrodes in lithium - ion batteries and next - generation lithium - air batteries,» said Dr. Maria Sushko, a PNNL materials scientist who worked on the study with Dr. Jun Liu.

Microwaves are helping materials scientists in the US to bake a better ceramic in a fraction of the time it normally takes.

Materials Scientist with over 10 years of experience in energy - related materials development.

The video below comes from the work of a team of materials scientists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.

Again, it was just a gossamer film, because anything thicker could not be cooled quickly enough to «frustrate the crystallization,» as materials scientists say.

Mixing and matching materials this way may pave the way to brighter displays for cell phones and handheld games, spherical light - sensitive «eyes» that take in a wide field of view, and flexible communications devices that can be folded and stuffed into a backpack, says materials scientist John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

Mohamad Kabbani, a former graduate student of Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan and lead author of the paper, demonstrated the environmentally friendly, scalable process can be done in minutes by hand by grinding chemically modified graphene into a powder and using a hand - powered press to squeeze the powder into a solid pellet.

In March, MIT materials scientist Polina Anikeeva and her team announced they'd heated things up by injecting a specially engineered virus that carried a gene for heat sensitivity — the same one that gives us a «hot» sensation when we eat chili peppers — into a region of mouse brain.

«These aren't exotic materials — they're widely used already in the magnetics industry,» said Argonne materials scientist Axel Hoffmann, the corresponding author on the paper.

«The beauty of the treatment is that the repair material is chemically identical to the original limestone,» says Princeton University materials scientist George Scherer.

Says materials scientist Michael Heben, who worked on the project: This points to the possibility of high - density hydrogen storage at room temperatures.

«They reduced the amount of acetylene in ethylene down to less than 2 parts per million (ppm), which is lower than the 5 ppm that polyethylene manufacturing requires,» said NIST materials scientist Wei Zhou.

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While the researchers tested their model using — you guessed it — soap bubbles, they hope their work will help materials scientists better understand and control the properties of solidified foams made of metal and plastic, which are vital for applications that require materials that are both light and strong — like prosthetic limbs.

And a team led by University of Wisconsin - Madison materials scientist Chang - Beom Eom has directly observed that missing second half of the duo necessary to move oxide electronics materials forward.

The clubs exploit the amorphous alloy's amazing springiness, or what materials scientists call a high elastic - strain limit.

Now, mathematician Robert MacPherson of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and theoretical materials scientist David Srolovitz of Yeshiva University in New York City have cracked the problem.

Nanophotonics research by materials scientist Jennifer Dionne could lead to improved drugs, cancer tests or invisibility cloaks.

«If it works, everyone else will do it instantly,» says materials scientist George Crabtree of Argonne.

Renowned materials scientist Mark Miodownik studies objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected as concrete cloth, uncovering the fascinating secrets that hold together our physical world.

The use of plasmons to enhance solar cell technology is promising, says materials scientist Mark Brongersma of Stanford University in California.

While other materials scientists have pushed the limits of origami by making flat pieces bendable, this design instead stretches the hinges, says Jesse Silverberg, a physicist at Harvard University who wasn't part of the study.

Solid - state materials scientist Ryan Dirkx is vice president of R & D at Arkema, where he has worked on Plexiglas acrylic.

Materials scientist Canan Dagdeviren's cutting - edge work on flexible sensors is grounded in personal experiences.

For years materials scientists have tried reconstructing cell membranes following nature's recipe, which calls for fat - based molecules called phospholipids as the main ingredient.

«Now, we can suddenly use ordinary magnetic materials, combine them in a clever way with other materials, and make them work at room temperature,» says materials scientist Axel Hoffmann of Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.

At low concentrations of silica beads, Royer, Blair and NIST materials scientist Steven Hudson found that measurements of stress were consistent with the hydrodynamic model.

«You can make it in an office, basically,» says materials scientist Robert Chang of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill..

A Royal Society University Research Fellowship allowed materials scientist Rachel Oliver to prove herself as an independent researcher.

«Large permanent magnets make the generators feasible,» explains materials scientist Alex King, director of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DoE) Ames Laboratory in Iowa, which started making rare earth magnets in the 1940s as part of the Manhattan Project.