Sentences with phrase «based nanostructured»

There is an increasing trend of using carbon based nanostructured materials as components in solar cells.

The success story has been seamlessly adapted to the characterization of graphene and is in use in hundreds of laboratories worldwide as a fundamental diagnostic tool for carbon - based nanostructures.

«Her work has provided a series of seminal contributions to the science of carbon - based nanostructures.»

The 1996 Chemistry Nobel Prize for the discovery of fullerenes, the 2008 Kavli Nanoscience Prize for the discovery of nanotubes, and the 2010 Physics Nobel Prize for graphene all recognize the remarkable phenomena that occur in highly controlled carbon - based nanostructures.

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• Nano - C, a Westwood, Mass. - based developer of nanostructured carbon for energy and electronics applications, raised $ 11.5 million in funding, including a $ 3 million tranche from Ray Stata, cofounder and current chairman of Analog Devices.

If scientists «start too early to specialize in biomaterials, there is a risk that they... would know all the possible applications but they will maybe not have the basis to be able to develop new ideas or new systems,» says Christine Dupont - Gillain, who leads the Nanostructured Surfaces for Cell Engineering group at the Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences of the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.

«Nature's blueprint for fracture - resistant cement: Based on the nanostructure of the sea urchin spines, scientists develop fracture - resistant cement.»

Professor Laura Cipolla, from the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences at the University of Milano - Bicocca, added: «Based on our background on the chemical modification of bio - and nanostructured materials, proteins, and carbohydrates, we designed a new chemical approach in order to force the organic component polycaprolactone to stay together in a stable way with the inorganic component silica.»

Yager then discusses the light - based techniques and laser tools he has developed to arrange molecules into ordered patterns and specific shapes to fabricate more perfect, complex nanostructures.

However, this situation could change as a result of research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), where scientists have developed the diagnostic tools that are being used to advance an improved and integrated understanding of plasma - based synthesis — a widely used but poorly understood tool for creating nanostructures.

Two different types of slippery surfaces infused with silicone oil as a lubricant were evaluated: a very thin, silica - based and nanostructured 2D coating applied layer - by - layer (i - LBL) and a thicker, matrix - like 3D coating made of the common polymer polydimethylsiloxane (i - PDMS).

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.

A novel nanostructured material based on tantalum oxide could make possible non-volatile crossbar array memories that store up to 162 gigabits in 3 - D memory stacks.

Such topics include time - resolved, coherent and non-linear Raman spectroscopies, nanostructure - based surface - enhanced and tip - enhanced Raman spectroscopies of molecules, resonance Raman to investigate the structure - function relationships and dynamics of biological molecules, linear and nonlinear Raman imaging and microscopy, biomedical applications of Raman, theoretical formalism and advances in quantum computational methodology of all forms of Raman scattering, Raman spectroscopy in archaeology and art, advances in remote Raman sensing and industrial applications, and Raman optical activity of all classes of chiral molecules.

The five - year, $ 750,000 grant will support Collins and his team of graduate and undergraduate students in their research developing and testing new resonant X-ray scattering techniques that reveal how organic, carbon - based molecules assemble, orient and conform into nanostructures.

The samples in the latest experiment were formed from individual polygon gold nanostructures, measuring about 5 nanometers across, connected to single DNA - segment strands with 84 base pairs.

These findings, published recently by the high - impact journal Nanoscale («Tessellated gold nanostructures from Au144 (SCH2CH2Ph) 60 molecular precursors and their use in organic solar cell enhancement»), represent a game - changing innovation that holds the potential to take solar power mainstream and dramatically decrease the world's dependence on traditional, resource - based sources of energy, says Giovanni Fanchini from Western's Faculty of Science.

DNA - based Artificial Nanostructures: Fabrication, Properties, and Applications, Y. Sun and Ching - Hwa Kiang, USA

He also works on the design of biomedical applications based on the plasmonic properties of well - defined metal nanoparticles and nanostructures.

Hills, a Florida - based company, has just made a significant breakthrough with the creation of a machine that makes nanostructured fibers.