Sentences with phrase «fundamental materials research»

Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Fundamental Materials Research, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 - 1116, USA.

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But after five years of doing the work he enjoyed, support for industrial fundamental materials and device research dried up.

«The research performed at NSLS - II will probe the fundamental structure of novel materials and help drive the development of low - cost, low - carbon energy technologies, spark advances in environmental science, and spur medical breakthroughs,» Moniz said.

Cahill explained that this work lies more on the fundamental side of thermal physics research, although materials like diamond and silicon carbide are being actively developed as alternative substrates for high powered radio - frequency (RF) devices.

«The exciting part of this work is not just that we made hydrogels, but that we're now equipped with this powerful technique that lets us ask fundamental — and very challenging — questions about them,» says Takanari Inoue, Ph.D., an associate professor of cell biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author of the report on the research published online Nov. 6 in the journal Nature Materials.

Other forms of quantum dots could be used as a sensor in place of the molecule, such as those that can be realized with semiconductor materials: one example would be quantum dots made of nanocrystals like those already being used in fundamental research.

«Fundamental research is needed to transpose smart materials from the current paradigm of fixed properties and mechanics with extrinsic and centralized control to a new paradigm of soft active composites with unprecedented dynamic functionality realized through maximal substrate embedding of tightly integrated, decentralized, and highly distributed intrinsic (materials - based) sensing, actuation, and control.»

Bringing together multiple disciplines and addressing research across a whole range of issues, from the fundamental understanding of material properties to graphene production, the GRAPHENE (1) Flagship was launched in October 2013.

Dr. Yu's research has evolved to understand interfacial phenomena at the fundamental atomic and molecular level that are relevant to the observed changes across multiple time and space scales in the environment, with implications in biological systems (e.g., biofilm and cell), aerosol, catalysis, and materials.

Prof. Chen Li's research group in the Mechanical Engineering Department is using high pressure as a tool to (1) understand the physics of fundamental excitations in the materials; (2) tune the properties of existing energy materials; and (3) engineer innovative multi-functional materials through high pressure synthesis or other indirect approaches.

Debrecen www.atomki.mta.hu Fundamental research in experimental and theoretical atomic, nuclear and particle physics, and in applying the physical methods and knowledge in other fields of science like materials research, environmental and earth sciences, biological and medical research etc..

My research focuses on developing robust multiscale computational paradigms to model the structure - property relations of minerals in order to develop a fundamental understanding of the origins of water and organic materials in our Solar System.

This research is providing fundamental knowledge about the relationship between electronic properties and molecular structure of materials that could be used in solar cells.

What's Next: The authors of this review are part of a team of materials experts at PNNL who are putting this information to use by conducting fundamental and applied research to reduce the costs and improve the efficiency of large - scale energy storage.

The Kavli Foundation supports fundamental research into science at the atomic scale at five Kavli Nanoscience Institutes, including the work of nanoscientists developing new tools, materials and approaches to probe the world at very small scales.

Designed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a new device shows what happens where the electrolyte and active material in the electrode meet; this fundamental research has implications for energy storage, generation, and chemical manufacturing technology.

He was recognized for «pioneering research that advanced the fundamental understanding of the molecular - level mechanisms of biomineralization, and translated those principles into realizable materials technologies; and for his leadership in the materials sciences research community.»

The work opens up the possibility of using diamonds as quantum mechanical switches, which are a fundamental building block of quantum computers, said Lynn, director of the Center for Materials Research at WSU's School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.

In this role he is responsible for a broad range of fundamental research at PNNL sponsored by the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science, including work in advanced computing, chemistry, materials science, and particle / nuclear physics.

He was recognized for «groundbreaking research that ties fundamental kinetics studies of catalytic materials to the creative design and successful commercialization of novel microchannel reactors.»

He is being honored for outstanding technical developments that apply directly to fundamental research in catalysis and energy storage materials.

Dr. Ager's research interests include the fundamental electronic and transport characteristics of photovoltaic materials, development of new photoanodes and photocathodes based on abundant elements for solar fuels production, and the development of new oxide - and sulfide - based transparent conductors.

Continued research may allow HPFM to be used as a probe so, for instance, it would be possible to study the effect of new treatments being developed to save plants such as citrus trees from bacterial diseases rapidly decimating the citrus industry, or study fundamental photonically - induced processes in complex systems such as in solar cell materials or opto - electronic devices.

«While titanium dioxide is a model material that will likely not be used to sequester carbon dioxide or serve as a catalyst for fuel conversion, the fundamental aspects of carbon dioxide reactivity revealed in our study are very intriguing,» said Dr. Xiao Lin, a Linus Pauling Postdoctoral Fellow at PNNL, who proposed this research as part of his fellowship.

The mission of the Wyss Institute is to discover the engineering principles that Nature uses to build living things; to pursue the high - risk research that is fundamental to advance this effort; and to harness these insights to create biologically inspired materials and devices to advance human health and improve the environment — thereby revolutionizing clinical medicine and creating a more sustainable world.

Thallapally is best known for his fundamental and applied research on porous materials for gas separation and catalysis.

This nanotechnology signature initiative coordinates the nanoscale science, engineering, and technology communities around the fundamental, interconnected elements of collaborative modeling, a cyber-toolbox, and data infrastructure to capitalize on American strengths in innovation, shorten the time from research to new product development, and maintain U.S. leadership in sustainable design of engineered nanoscale materials.

The Geochemistry and Interfacial Sciences Group conducts fundamental and applied research on fluid - solid interactions that control (a) contaminant fate and transport and energy extraction in subsurface geologic environments; (b) electrical energy storage in porous electrode materials; and (c) heterogeneous reaction rates, mechanisms and equilibria in general.

The mission of the Wyss Institute is to discover the engineering principles that Nature uses to build living things; to pursue the high - risk research that is fundamental to advance this effort; and to harness these insights to create biologically - inspired materials and devices to advance human health and improve the environment — thereby revolutionizing clinical medicine and creating a more sustainable world.

REU participants will conduct original research via specially designed student projects within three main foci: 1) Microgel and Hydrogel Nanoparticles: Designing environmentally sensitive nanoparticles for a variety of applications and fundamental studies of volume phase transitions; 2) Anisotropic Soft Matter Thin Films: Driving self - assembly of soft matter to develop thin films with unique properties tied to the shape anisotropy of the materials; and 3) Soft Matter Fluid Flow: Striving to better understand and to improve mixing in liquid soft matter systems and use liquid flow to test and understand biological phenomena.

It provides a broad coverage of both fundamental and applied research, including aspects of chemistry, physics and biology as well as materials science and engineering.

He then worked at the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory before joining the NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories in Japan in 1988 where his research shifted first to novel carbon materials such as fullerenes (C60), graphene and carbon naResearch Laboratories in Japan in 1988 where his research shifted first to novel carbon materials such as fullerenes (C60), graphene and carbon naresearch shifted first to novel carbon materials such as fullerenes (C60), graphene and carbon nanotubes.

The scope of COSPAR comprises space studies of the Earth's surface, meteorology and climate; space studies of the Earth - Moon system and other bodies of the solar system, including the search for evidence of life in the solar system; study of planetary atmospheres including those of the ever - expanding inventory of exoplanets; space plasmas in the solar system; research in astrophysics from space; life sciences as related to space; materials sciences in space; and fundamental physics in space.

Students enrolled in the HGSE course will study how to recognize opportunities and assess needs for informal learning interventions; how to conduct, assemble, and synthesize research on media - based teaching and learning in a particular domain; how to design, test, and revise materials that are responsive to particular audiences and objectives; how to make diversity a fundamental component of the design process; and how to gauge the short - and long - term impact of an intervention.

And Mallouk and others say that the work is again an important blend of fundamental research and a critical application: materials that might help coal - fired power plants filter out carbon dioxide from their smokestacks.

So maybe in the future we can use cheaper materials than steel... I think we can not reach $ 100 / t simply by scale, or by procurement, but it's not fundamental research that needs to be done, it's simply optimisation work, which is well known.»