Sentences with phrase «based nanomaterials»

His research interests focus on the design of multifunctional carbon - based nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene and adamantane) and other 2D materials for therapeutic, diagnostic and imaging applications.

As a Research Councils UK academic fellow at Manchester, she investigated the microbial production of selenium - based nanomaterials linked to bioremediation strategies for selenium - contaminated soils.

The Park Systems Webinar titled Graphene Based Nanomaterials and Films will be given by Professor Rigoberto Advincula of Case Western Reserve University on July 9, 2015 at 9 am PST.

«The discovery of graphene is but a continuing evolution on how we analyze, treat, synthesize carbon based nanomaterials which includes the fullerenes, nanotubes, and now C polymorph platelets called graphene,» explains Dr. Advincula.

Graphene - based Nanomaterials offer many innovations in industries such as electronics, semiconductor, life science, material science and bio science.

The researchers developed a simple method for producing a palladium - based nanomaterial that can spur the breakdown of formic acid into hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

Not exact matches

At Battelle, Koper is studying the use of nanomaterials in membranes for water desalination and treatment; supercapacitors (energy - storage devices that provide higher power densities than batteries); and bio-based (rather than petroleum - based) additives used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve natural gas.

Based on that suggestion, the ORNL team hypothesized that it should be possible to measure a nanomaterial's temperature using an electron microscope with an electron beam that is «monochromated» or filtered to select energies within a narrow range.

A research group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

The number of products — including sunscreens, paints, vitamins, food additives, electronics, vehicles and appliances — that use nanomaterials has increased almost 380 percent since 2006, according to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, a Washington, D.C. - based non-profit group that tracks nanotechnology.

«To us it was important to develop an easily scalable technology platform for manufacturing large - area printed and flexible electronics based on organic semiconductors and nanomaterials,» Dr. Abdellah says.

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the most important national research funder in Germany, and the Degussa - Hüls AG, a global chemistry corporation based at Marl, have recently jointly set up the Nanomaterials Priority Program involving seven German universities (see Next Wave report).

Although the AOPs developed until now have addressed chemical toxicity, the approach also lends itself to describing the mechanistic basis to potential adverse effects caused by nanomaterials, as demonstrated very recently by the JRC.

«While we have only demonstrated the construction of graphene - based structures in this study, we strongly believe that the new technique will be able to serve as a general method for the assembly of a much wider range of nanomaterials,» concluded Franklin Kim, the principal investigator of the study.

This technology, the NuCress ™ scaffold, is a nanomaterial - based bone regeneration device pioneered by UA Little Rock's Dr. Alexandru S. Biris, Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust Nanotechnology chair, and director of the Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences.

He has pioneered the use of nanomaterials in energy storage devices and has created numerous breakthrough materials - based solutions that dramatically improve battery capacity and cycle life, including nanostructured silicon anodes, sulfur cathodes, and stable lithium metal anodes.

An article by Dr. Aihui Ma - Ham, Dr. Zhiwen Tang, Ms. Hong Wu, Dr. Jun Wang and Dr. Yuehe Lin in Small reviewed current developments in one area of promise for nanomaterials: protein - based nanomedicine platforms for drug delivery.

«There are potential technology - based solutions for replacing 13 out of the 14 metals by carbon nanomaterials in their most common applications.

A survey at Chalmers University of Technology now shows that there are potential technology - based solutions that can replace many of the metals with carbon nanomaterials, such as graphene (Journal of Cleaner Production, «Carbon nanomaterials as potential substitutes for scarce metals»).

They found potential technology - based solutions to replace the metals with carbon nanomaterials for all applications except for gold in jewellery.

After that, he moved to the U.S. and received his Ph.D. in 2014 from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he developed nanomaterial - based immunotherapies for cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

In the fall of 2004, Anikeeva began doctoral work in optoelectronics at MIT under the supervision of electrical engineer Vladimir Bulović, developing a class of light - emitting devices based on nanomaterials called quantum dots, which are used in displays.

For example, Lin is developing chemical and biological sensors based on functional nanomaterials, like protein cages, quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, and graphene, that interact with peptides, enzymes, antibodies and DNA.

The National Cancer Institute's Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL) provides knowledge and services to help researchers transition nanomaterials - based cancer treatments from the laboratory into FDA - approved clinical trials.

Lookman and his colleagues focused on nickel - titanium - based shape - memory alloys, but the strategy can be used for any materials class (polymers, ceramics or nanomaterials) or target properties (e.g., dielectric response, piezoelectric coefficients and band gaps).

Material scientists are also working to continuously improve and develop new nanomaterials beyond widely used liposomes or polymer - based particles.

The goal is to group nanomaterials on the basis of specific properties and to allocate the corresponding toxicological properties to these groups.