Sentences with phrase «atoms arranged»

Abstract: If you combine two or three metals together, you will get an alloy that usually looks and acts like a metal, with its atoms arranged in rigid geometric patterns.

The fullerene molecules consist of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a truncated icosahedral shape (a soccer ball) and pack in a regular cubic - close - packed array in three dimensions.

Fullerenes are molecules consisting of an even number of carbon atoms arranged over the surface of a closed hollow cage.

Take graphene, the single layers of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice that my colleagues and I first isolated in 2004.

Now, as chemists report online today in Nature, buckyballs — complex molecules with 60 carbon atoms arranged into what look like the geodesic domes of R. Buckminster Fuller — do indeed exist in the space between the stars.

Called graphene, it is essentially a nanotube unrolled — a single layer of atoms arranged like a honeycomb.

To date the largest objects observed to engage in this quantum jiggery pokery are molecules with 60 carbon atoms arranged like the pattern on a traditional soccer ball and 48 fluorine atoms coated on the surface of that sphere.

That leaves a project on graphene, a material made of carbon atoms arranged in a single layer, and the Human Brain Project, which aims to recreate the human brain in a computer, as the winners.

Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice.

But graphite, the form of carbon found in pencil lead but also found coating the surface of many particles of interstellar dust, is also made of one - atom - thick sheets of carbon atoms arranged into hexagonal rings.

Its new form, called silicene, consists of a sheet of silicon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern.

Hexagonal boron nitride, stacked layers of boron and nitrogen atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, has recently been found to bend electromagnetic energy in unusual and potentially useful ways.

The laser fires at a clear film of molecules consisting of tin and sulfur atoms arranged in a diamondlike pattern and surrounded by organic groups.

ULTRATHIN FILMS Computer simulations reveal the properties of a little - studied group of synthetic materials: 2 - D arrays of metal atoms arranged in honeycombs (illustrated), triangles or squares.

Spin ice is a class of materials with atoms arranged in four - sided pyramids called tetrahedra.

Lately we've been working on graphene, which is a sheet one atom thick, made entirely of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal structure like chicken wire.

Normally their ends are closed off with carbon atoms arranged in pentagons.

Since it consists only of carbon atoms arranged in single layers, it is easy to be chemically functionalized.

But the researchers discovered that sheets of carbon atoms arranged in a pattern of hexagons and pentagons can curl up and ultimately close to form hollow cages.

Fullerene is an interesting molecule: it is formed of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal network shaped like a hollow sphere.

Buckyballs, made of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a geodesic sphere — the shape made famous by the inventor — have been found beyond our galaxy, suggesting they abound in space.

In a paper published this month in the journal Science, the researchers describe how they have now coaxed Escherichia coli bacteria into creating bicyclobutanes, a group of chemicals that contain four carbon atoms arranged so they form two triangles that share a side.

Still, that approach requires that atoms arrange themselves.

In the melt spinning procedure however, crystallization is avoided: Either an amorphous structure is formed, in which the atoms are completely irregularly arranged, or a nanocrystalline structure, in which the atoms arrange themselves in nanometer - sized grains to form a crystalline structure.

The researchers discovered that the unique manner in which the platinum and nickel atoms arrange themselves on the surfaces of these particles serves to optimally accelerate the chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen to form water.

These structures differ from those of naturally occurring crystals, in which individual atoms arrange themselves into a lattice.

Not exact matches

And when we realize how big it is, it's impossible to not be more awed by our creator - God, who understands every cell and atom and element and has arranged them perfectly in accordance with His plans.

Therefore, our bodies are really more space than matter and IF we knew how to do it, we could arrange the atoms in oor bodies to slip between the atoms in a wall so that we could pass through it with room to spare!

In the case of carbon atoms which can be arranged in such a way that they form a diamond, or in such a way that they form graphite, it is surely the form, the intelligible structure, that makes the difference.

Clay minerals consist of crystals in which atoms of silicon, oxygen and a number of metals, such as aluminum, iron and various rarer and less frequent ones, are arranged in a three - dimensional lattice.

Made up of two layers of graphene, a form of carbon arranged in single - atom - thick sheets, the structure's weird behavior suggests it may provide a fruitful playground for testing how certain unusual types of superconductors work, physicist Pablo Jarillo - Herrero of MIT...

Working in a Harvard Physics Department lab, a team of researchers led by Harvard Professors Mikhail Lukin and Markus Greiner and MIT Professor Vladan Vuletic has developed a special type of quantum computer, known as a quantum simulator, which is programmed by capturing super-cooled rubidium atoms with lasers and arranging them in a specific order, then allowing quantum mechanics to do the necessary calculations.

Using a microscope, researchers can image the captured atoms in real time, and then arrange them into arbitrary patterns to make up the system's input.

Solid, liquid, gas, mind: it's all about how you arrange the atoms, says renowned physicist Max Tegmark

This state is reached because of a lack of nucleation sites — microscopic locations where the atoms can begin to arrange into a lattice.

This technique, described in the Feb. 2 Physical Review Letters, showed that 2 - D semiconductors arranged in single - atom - thick sheets expand more like plastics than metals when heated.

Its atoms are arranged in parallel chains.

These materials were arranged in sheets from a single atom to a few atoms thick.

In bct, groups of four atoms are arranged in a square.

At lower temperatures, the atoms tend to arrange in another cubic structure — the alpha form of titanium -3-gold.

Materials are made of atoms, and if they are arranged periodically, they are called crystalline structures.

Similar to the way fibers are arranged in wood, atoms are arranged into ordered domains — called «grains» — within a material.

Made up of two layers of graphene, a form of carbon arranged in single - atom - thick sheets, the structure's weird behavior suggests it may provide a fruitful playground for testing how certain unusual types of superconductors work, physicist Pablo Jarillo - Herrero of MIT reported March 7 at a meeting of the American Physical Society.

The layer in the panel that's responsible for soaking up sun has atoms that only arrange themselves into...

The cathode material in lithium batteries is typically «ordered,» meaning the lithium and transition metal atoms are arranged in neat layers, allowing lithium to move in and out of the layers.

«The atoms are arranged in a regular periodic grid and are not jiggling around, as in a liquid,» says Coh.

The possibility to precisely arrange the atoms on a sample bring «designer quantum materials» one step closer to reality.

«Artificial materials created atom - by - atom: Possibility to arrange the atoms precisely bring designer quantum materials closer to reality.»

We would actually have to lay our materials on top of each other, and the problem is that sometimes two materials you want to put together, they are crystal structures — the way their atoms are arranged and aligned are different.

By arranging atoms in a lattice, it becomes possible to engineer the electronic properties of the material through the atomic structure.