Sentences with phrase «as nanoscale»

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

They form molecular species that activate the carbon dioxide making it easier to convert, and create new, nonuniform solvent structures that can act as nanoscale reactors to promote chemical reactions.

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.

The images detail the flexible structure of the DNA segments, which appear as nanoscale jump ropes.

Feynman speculated that people looking back from the year 2000 would wonder why it took till 1960 before we began to explore this «room at the bottom» — what we now know as the nanoscale.

«They are, in a sense, pushing the power of single molecules as nanoscale light sources to the limit,» says W. E. Moerner, a physical chemist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

These technologies exploit quantum mechanics, the physics that dominates the atomic world, to perform disparate tasks such as nanoscale temperature measurement and processing quantum information with lasers.

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.

These motors spin the flagella, which work as nanoscale propellers to drive the bacterium forward.

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.

«This may, in turn, lead to the development of disruptive technologies such as the nanoscale equivalent of an optical fiber due to the volume - bound confinement of sub-diffractional modes within hBN.»

Now human engineers are learning to design and synthesize novel biochemical devices such as nanoscale factories, biological circuits and even molecular computers.

Kaloyeros resigned as president in October but is still seeking to assume his old job as a nanoscale science and engineering professor.

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Metal oxides such as zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are increasingly being used in sunscreens and cosmetics in the form of nanoparticles — microscopic particles of matter measured on the nanoscale.

He views their union as critical to the survival of SUNY Poly, which was created in 2014 when Kaloyeros spun off the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, or CNSE, from the University at Albany and merged it with what was then called SUNY IT, a technical college in the town of Marcy outside Utica.

Mr. Cupoli, the Assembly's choice, is a former Chief economist at SEMATECH and Professor of NanoEconomics at SUNY Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, a school that Mr. Cuomo and state officials have touted as an example of a successful partnership between a public university and private business.

As of 2014, Kaloyeros was making $ 801,700 annually at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at the University at Albany, according to payroll history from the state Comptroller's Office.

According to his letter of employment, if Kaloyeros chose to step down from his presidential role, he may return as a tenured professor of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at SUNY Poly, with his pay resuming at the same rate as when he left the role (with any increases that had been negotiated for members of the United University Professions union in the interim).

Obama made one more visit to the region on May 8, 2012, making a speech at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, using the school as a backdrop to offer an election - year vision of the economy.

The Central New York hub will be part of the state university system's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, focusing on innovations in the film industry and other sectors, such as medical devices and energy.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute, formerly known as the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, will hold a ribbon - cutting ceremony for Tech Valley High School, which recently moved to the SUNY Poly campus in Albany.

And the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany has been buying land in the Rochester area as it seeks to replicate its research and development model, which has attracted $ 17 billion in private and government funding to its Fuller Road campus.

Nanoscale entities made of DNA that can perform the same logic operations as a silicon - based computer have been introduced into a living animal.

A technique that peppers the cells» surface with nanoscale domes could curb this tendency and improve efficiency by as much as 25 per cent.

BLUE HALO Bees can easily learn to recognize a bluish tinge called a blue halo created by sloppy nanoscale structures (located in the dark center circle, and seen at right) on such flowers as Ursinia speciosa.

To gain this new understanding into the behavior of matter at the nanoscale, García - Garibay's research group designed three rotating nanomaterials known as MOFs, or metal - organic frameworks, which they call UCLA - R1, UCLA - R2 and UCLA - R3 (the «r» stands for rotor).

These hyperbolic metamaterials are the basis for many potential applications such as «hyperlenses,» used for imaging of nanoscale objects not observable using conventional optics.

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

The results will allow, for the first time, the imaging of nanoscale processes, such as the engulfment of nanoparticles into cells.

Wilson, the sporting goods manufacturer, has nanoengineered layers of clay to double the playing life of its Double Core tennis balls; L'Oréal uses nanoscale particles and capsules in their cosmetic creams that allow replenishing ingredients to penetrate deep into the skin; and the Australian company Advanced Powder Technology has created Zinclear, a translucent zinc oxide sunblock composed of nanoparticles as small as the tiniest known viruses.

«It's a terrific paper,» says Rice University chemist Dan Colbert, who sees the study as an important advance toward creating nanoscale molecular structures.

«With an outer diameter of only 130 microns, the probe is as thin as a single strand of human hair,» says Dr Jiawen Li, a researcher with the Adelaide Medical School, ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics (CNBP) and the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) at the University of Adelaide.

A: I'm working on using solid - state defects in diamonds as magnetic field sensors, with the goal of using them as little nanoscale MRI machines that can study the structure and dynamics of single biological molecules (e.g., proteins).

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

«We found that these clusters can perform very well as room - temperature nanoscale diodes whose electrical response we can tailor by changing their chemical composition,» says Venkataraman.

An X-ray microscopy technique recently developed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has given scientists the ability to image nanoscale changes inside lithium - ion battery particles as they charge and discharge.

Such sophisticated multilayer structures can be used as a versatile platform for the investigation of various phenomena at the nanoscale.

A model microscopic system to demonstrate the transmission of torque in the presence of thermal fluctuations — necessary for the creation of a tiny «clutch» operating at the nanoscale — has been assembled at the University of Bristol as part of an international collaboration.

The team shows that a nanoscale metal rod on graphene (acting as an antenna for light) can capture infrared light and transform it into graphene plasmons, analogous to a radio antenna converting radio waves into electromagnetic waves in a metal cable.

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Just as a home ink - jet printer draws letters using ink, Nanoident's printer drizzles liquid polymer or a solution of nanoscale particles in a chosen pattern.

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.

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But as Jan Zaanen of Leiden University, The Netherlands, notes in an accompanying commentary, «studies like these are revealing amazing diversity in the behavior of these mystery electron systems at the nanoscale.»

We see manifold applications, such as studies of conformational changes in amyloid structures on the molecular level, the mapping of nanoscale protein modifications in biomedical tissue or the label - free mapping of membrane proteins.

The new study builds on a technique developed in 2013 by Sleiman's research group to make nanoscale «cages» from strands of DNA, and stuff them with lipid - like polymer chains that fold together into a ball - shaped particle that can contain cargo such as drug molecules.

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

Over the last decade, strained nanomechanical oscillators have emerged as an important paradigm owing to their anomalously high quality factors; however, this trend is not as much a design choice as an artifact of large stresses naturally produced at the nanoscale.

Epps is also leading an effort to do nanoscale patterning with block polymers as a low - cost alternative to lithographic approaches currently used to make electronic devices.

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.