Sentences with phrase «nanoscale control»
ERKCC72 - Atomic - to Pore - Scale Geochemical Processes (BES Geosciences) ERKCC67 - Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2 (Energy Frontier Research Center)
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Our principal research projects include the «Atomic - to Pore - Scale Geochemical Processes project;» the «Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Energy Frontier Research Center;» the LBNL - led «Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2 (NCGC) Energy Frontier Research Center;») and the «Center for Understanding and Control of Acid - Gas - Induced Evolution of Materials for Energy (UNCAGE - ME) Energy Frontier Research Center.»
By manipulating chemical reactions, behaviors of cells can be mimicked resulting in chemical factories on the nanoscale controlled and not by physical touch but by magnets and light.
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«Our goal was to lay out the forces that control energy transport at the nanoscale,» says study co-author Surajit Sen, PhD, professor of physics in UB's College of Arts and Sciences.
Now, they've extended that work by designing a computer - controlled process to not only create dense stainless steel layers, but to more tightly control the structure of their material from the nanoscale to micron scale.
«The idea of metamaterials in the context of optics is that you can manipulate light and decide how you want it to behave in this medium,» said Professor Menon a photonics expert whose specialty includes control of light - matter interaction at the nanoscale.
By using powerful photon beams generated by the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a DOE User Facility located at Argonne, researchers have shown that they can now control the chemical environment and provide nanoscale structural detail while simultaneously imaging the mineral calcite as it is pushed to its extremes.
«We were making small, easily synthesized, programmable molecules» — molecules designed and synthesized with parts that control their behavior — «which assembled on the nanoscale into highly functional materials,» Smith says.
«We explored an alternate idea: the introduction of shaped nanoscale «blocks» decorated with DNA tethers on each facet to control the directional binding of spheres with complementary DNA tethers,» Gang said.
It's difficult to conceptualize a world where humans could casually manipulate nanoscale objects at will or even control their own biological matter at a cellular level with light.
The scientists added in their report, «The precise control over interface geometry offered by our method enables the design of two - component protein nanomaterials with diverse nanoscale features, such as surfaces, pores, and internal volumes, with high accuracy.»
«We can control the shape of the structure itself, what we call the macroscale features; and the design of the catalyst, the nanoscale features, at the same time,» said Igor Slowing, a scientist in heterogeneous catalysis at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory.
The researchers believe that heat conduction is further suppressed by controlling the structure in nanoscale and traces of impurities and other defects.
Using molecular switches that expand and contract in response to different wavelengths of light, two teams of scientists have constructed nanoscale gateways that could someday be used for everything from precisely - controlled drug delivery to brewing super-cooled nanofluids.
Recent efforts have led to a variety of powerful man - made micro / nanoscale machines, with advanced motion control and new functions, that are capable of performing different tasks.
Already used in fiber optic communications, the field of applied photonics is making steady progress in developing optical circuits, which use nanoscale «optical cavities» as switches or «transistors» for controlling the flow of light.
Easy to control, the new gold - catalyzed process for creating patterns of channels with nanoscale dimensions could help to spawn entirely new technologies fashioned from ensembles of ultra-small structures.
«Our approach makes it possible to draw nanoscale electrically - conductive features in atomically - thin insulating sheets with the highest spatial control reported so far,» said Mativetsky.
Washington State University researchers have developed a unique, 3 - D manufacturing method that for the first time rapidly creates and precisely controls a material's architecture from the nanoscale to centimeters.
Because of the complex structure of spider silk, large scale synthetic production still remains a challenge and can only be achieved through a controlled self - assembly of the macromolecular components with nanoscale precision [2].
«Deformation of metals is mainly controlled by how nanoscale defects move and interact in the microstructure,» Voisin said.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published today in the Federal Register its plan for the Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
However recent theoretical advances show how to control light at the nanoscale, provided we can find the correct materials for our devices.
The capability to tune the acoustic phonon dynamics in technologically relevant group IV nanostructures provides a promising prospect to control the propagation of acoustic and thermal phonons with great implications on nanoscale hypersound and thermal transport.
Resume: Nanoscale phononic crystals can be used in many areas including high - frequency signal processing and the control of thermal phonons.
We now have a range of new techniques that allow us to study crystal growth at the nanoscale, helping us to understand and control this growth to produce materials with specific properties.
Resume: Block copolymers (BCPs) are an exciting class of soft materials that enable controlled phase separation and nanoscale self - assembly of designer macromolecules for applications ranging from thermoplastic elastomers and membranes to nanocapsules for drug delivery.
Nanoscale phononic crystals can be used in many areas including high - frequency signal processing and the control of thermal phonons.
Block copolymers (BCPs) are an exciting class of soft materials that enable controlled phase separation and nanoscale self - assembly of designer macromolecules for applications ranging from thermoplastic elastomers and membranes to nanocapsules for drug delivery.
The NNI is a U.S. Government research and development (R&D) initiative involving 20 departments and independent agencies working together toward the shared vision of «a future in which the ability to understand and control matter at the nanoscale leads to a revolution in technology and industry that benefits society.»
The researchers» real feat was in finding a way to produce these sensors in nanoscale dimensions while carefully controlling their structure and, by extension, their properties.
Nanostructured and chemically functionalized materials which mimic architectural and mechanical features of natural cell microenvironments hold promise for a better understanding and control of cell physiological processes through molecular and nanoscale interactions.
THE 2010 KAVLI PRIZE IN NANOSCIENCE is awarded to Donald Eigler and Nadrian Seeman «for their development of unprecedented methods to control matter on the nanoscale.»
«Nadrian Seeman's invention of DNA nanotechnology is unprecedented as a method to control matter on the nanoscale.
Infection Control - Scientists Develop Effective Method to Combat Bacteria by Engineering Nanoscale Particles
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its current thinking on whether a nanoscale material is a «new» or «existing» chemical substance under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
In a feat of manipulating substances at the nanoscale, UCLA researchers and colleagues demonstrated a method for isolating two molecules together on a substrate and controlling how those two molecules react when excited with ultraviolet light, making detailed observations both before and after the reaction.
Led by KIC Director Paul McEuen and Co-Director David Muller, the institute is focused on creating new techniques to image and dynamically control nanoscale systems, and using these techniques to push the frontiers of nanoscale science.
For a long time, Aizenberg's research has focused on studying complex natural micro and nanostructured materials — such as those in iridescent opals or in butterfly wings — and unraveling the ways biology controls the chemistry and morphology of its nanoscale building blocks.
Cumulatively totaling nearly $ 21 billion since the inception of the NNI in 2001 (including the 2015 request), this support reflects nanotechnology's potential to significantly improve our fundamental understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale and to translate that knowledge into solutions for critical national issues.
«Optomechanics is an area of research in which extremely minute forces exerted by light (for example: radiation pressure, gradient force, electrostriction) are used to generate and control high - frequency mechanical vibrations of microscale and nanoscale devices,» explained Gaurav Bahl, an assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois.
To address these challenges, the Molecular and Nanoscale Interfaces Project aims to couple light absorbers, catalysts, and half - reactions for optimal control of the rate, yield, and energetics of electron and proton flow at the nanoscale, so that complete macroscale artificial photosynthetic systems can achieve maximum conversion of solar photon energy into the chemical energy oNanoscale Interfaces Project aims to couple light absorbers, catalysts, and half - reactions for optimal control of the rate, yield, and energetics of electron and proton flow at the nanoscale, so that complete macroscale artificial photosynthetic systems can achieve maximum conversion of solar photon energy into the chemical energy onanoscale, so that complete macroscale artificial photosynthetic systems can achieve maximum conversion of solar photon energy into the chemical energy of a fuel.
The main objective of AMBIO (Advanced Nanostructured Surfaces for the Control of Biofouling) is similar to that of PICADA in that it seeks to develop antifouling coatings which work through their nanoscale physico - chemical properties.
The NNI vision is a future in which the ability to understand and control matter at the nanoscale leads to a revolution in technology and industry that benefits society.