Sentences with phrase «nanoscale materials as»

For this research, the team used the Center for Nanoscale Materials as well as beamline 12 - ID - C of the Advanced Photon Source, both DOE Office of Science User Facilities.

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This could enable frequency selective operation and nanophotonic circuits, as well as provide an operational material for mid-infrared imaging of nanoscale objects.

The discovery, to be published April 26 in the journal Nature, could have major implications for a wide range of applications that rely upon ferromagnetic materials, such as nanoscale memory, spintronic devices, and magnetic sensors.

Nanoscale rods of the material wobble in response to mechanical stress — such as the vibrations produced by sound — and generate an electric field.

Nanoscale construction is a field of nanotechnology that uses nanomaterials as basic building blocks to create materials with specific features.

This research opens new pathways for probing other electromechanical phenomena on the nanoscale that have not been studied before, such as charge trapping and properties of dielectric materials.

But tracking how this process alters the electronic structure and associated nanoscale distortions as the material transforms from insulator to pseudogap phase and eventually full - blown superconductivity is no easy task.

The resulting «designer nanotubes,» she adds, promise to be far cheaper to produce on a large scale than those created with so - called DNA origami, another innovative technique for using DNA as a nanoscale construction material.

Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have built two new nanoscale machines with moving parts, using DNA as a programmable, self - assembling construction material.

«Assembling nanoscale features into billets of materials through multi-leveled 3 - D architectures, you begin to see a variety of programmed mechanical properties such as minimal weight, maximum strength and super elasticity at centimeter scales.»

Natural materials, such as trabecular bone and the toes of geckoes, have evolved with multiple levels 3 - D architectures spanning from the nanoscale to the macroscale.

Over the past decade, researchers have been working to create nanoscale materials and devices using DNA as construction materials through a process called «DNA origami.»

«This approach can be used to build periodic lattices from optically active particles, such as gold, silver and any other material that can be modified with DNA, with extraordinary nanoscale precision,» said Mirkin, director of Northwestern's International Institute for Nanotechnology.

Tour is the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of computer science and a member of Rice's Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology.

Nanoscale computer parts, such as processors, are difficult to manufacture this way because of the challenges of combining electronic components with others made from multiple different materials.

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have shown that stem cell behaviour can be modified by manipulating the nanoscale properties of the material they are grown on — improving the potential of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering as a result.

It means individual nanoscale regions in complex oxide materials can behave as self - organized circuit elements, which could support new multifunctional types of computing architectures.

Utilizes advanced electron microscopy techniques to study nanoscale structure and defects that determine the utility of functional materials, such as superconductors, multiferroics, and other energy related systems including thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, and batteries.

As electronic components become smaller and smaller, understanding how materials behave at the nanoscale is crucial for the development of next - generation electronics.

In recent years, carbon nanotubes have emerged as a promising material of electron field emitters, owing to their nanoscale needle shape and extraordinary properties of chemical stability, thermal conductivity, and mechanical strength.

Seeman conceived the idea of using DNA as a building material for nanoscale engineering.

Park Systems, world - leader in atomic force microscopy (AFM) is hosting a webinar to provide advanced scientific research into new classes of Nanoscale Graphene - based materials poised to revolutionize industries such as semiconductor, material science, bio science and energy.

A number of nanoscale materials have been explored as potential electrode materials that could promise far higher performance than today's batteries.

The Center for Nanoscale Materials provided focused ion beam lithography instrument and expertise as well as tools for fabrication of the optical masks.

Nadrian C. Seeman, of New York University in the U.S., is the founding father of structural DNA nanotechnology, a field that exploits the structural properties of DNA to use it as a raw material for the next generation of nanoscale circuits, sensors, and biomedical devices.

Nadrian C. Seeman conceived the idea of using DNA as a building material for nanoscale engineering, rather than as the genetic material.

Free - electron lasers have opened new frontiers in studying materials and chemistry at the nanoscale and beyond, and Filippetto said he hopes to pave new ground with HiRES, too, using a technique known as «ultrafast electron diffraction,» or UED, that is similar to X-ray diffraction.

«We want to study nanoscale processes such as the structural changes in a material as a crack moves through it at the speed of sound,» he said.

Concretely, based on basic research on nanoscale materials, such as atomic and molecular transport and chemical reaction processes, polarization and excitation of charge and spin and superconducting phenomena, we are conducting research on atomic switches, artificial synapses, molecular devices, new quantum bits, neural network - type network circuits, next - generation devices, high sensitivity integrated molecular sensors and other new applied technologies.

DNA segments can serve as a nanoscale building material, and scientists have devised a new way to see the shape of nanoscale DNA segments in 3 - D.

Analytical tests from Vanderbilt's Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Nashville, TN, as well as the University of New Mexico's Center for High Technology Materials in Albuquerque, NM and Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nanotechnology and Advanced Spectroscopy Team (http://quantumdot.lanl.gov) confirmed that the final products had the desired shape, composition and behavior by analyzing individual quantum dots at the atomic level.

In biological systems, the nanoscale catalytic materials attach to larger entities such as proteins and cells, which self - organize to form larger networks of precisely designed catalytic sites.

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.

There are many nanotechnology - enabled products on the market ranging from coatings for superhydrophobic waterproofing products to carbon fibre - enhanced golf clubs to nanoscale chips for computers and components for phones to athletic materials impregnated with silver nanoparticles for their antibacterial properties (clothes you don't have to wash as often) to cosmetics and beauty products, e.g., nano sunscreens, and there are more.

Researchers are also investigating such nanophotonic devices as nanoscale lasers, quantum dots for solar cells and optical materials for quantum computing.

I follow with great interest, any developments regarding the health effects of pesticides, heavy metals, nanoscale materials (as found in personal care products and cosmetics, for example) and genetically engineered foods.

An alternative would be promoting a voluntary reporting program, such as the one recently created by the EPA - the Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program (NMSP).