Sentences with phrase «by nanoscale»

The DIY Nano app was created by the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net).

But if Kinshasa has become less charmingly urban, Makuwa remains entranced by the nanoscale world of viruses, scanning the scientific literature each morning for relevant studies and new data.

We utilize an unusual topological feature associated with exceptional points of a physical system to enhance the response of an optical sensor to very small perturbations, such as those introduced by nanoscale objects.

Materials with a high surface - to - volume ratio are attractive for studying the noise produced by nanoscale electronics because they are very sensitive to changes of their surfaces.

«Cellulose nanofibres are the main reinforcement in all plant structures and are characterised by nanoscale dimensions, high strength and toughness,» Berglund told New Scientist.

Verified by nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements, these results mark a clear path towards atomic level design of quantum sensors with larger surface areas than typically achievable.

The holograms are created by nanoscale patterns of metal that generate electromagnetic waves that travel at the metal - silicon interface; a field called plasmonics.

Logical operations using phonons to switch, amplify and route signals can be realized by nanoscaling.

Not exact matches

SUNY Poly was created several years ago by Kaloyeros, who split the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering from the University at Albany and merged it with SUNY IT in Utica.

The public - private partnership, to be spearheaded by the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY CNSE) and the SUNY Institute of Technology (SUNYIT), will create more than 1,000 new high - tech jobs on the campus of SUNYIT in Marcy.

Dean Fuleihan, currently a vice president at the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science in Albany, was tapped by de Blasio on Wednesday to become city's new budget director.

The RiverBend project will be run by the State University of New York's Research Foundation, which is headquartered in Albany, and has the help from top officials at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, the State University of New York's newest college, which has become a major source of jobs in Albany with its focus the past two decades on nanoscience research.

With no apparent long - term replacement for Sammakia waiting in the wings, Johnson was asked if the plan was to merge SUNY Poly's Colleges of Nanoscale of Science and Engineering back into UAlbany after being spun off several years ago by Kaloyeros and merged with SUNY IT in Utica.

With one in two Australian children reported to have tooth decay in their permanent teeth by age 12, researchers from the University of Sydney believe they have identified some nanoscale elements that govern the behaviour of our teeth.

In contrast, in graphite, striking coherent transients of the structure were observed in both image and diffraction, directly measuring, on the nanoscale, the longitudinal resonance period governed by Young's elastic modulus.

Nanoscale Complexity of Phospholipid Monolayers Investigated by Near - Field Scanning Optical Microscopy

This work was supported by the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science under the auspices of the project «Convergent Science and Technology for Measurements at the Nanoscale» (15011053), grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea (2014-023563, NRF -2008-0061906, NRF - 2013R1A1A1076141, NRF - 2012M3C1A1048861, 2011-0017605, BSR - 2012R1A2A2A01045496 and NMTD - 2012M3A7B4049888) funded by the Korea government (MSIP), a grant (2011-0031630) from the Center for Advanced Soft Electronics through the Global Frontier Research Program of MSIP, the Priority Research Center Program (2012-0005859), a grant (2011-0030786) from the Center for Topological Matters at POSTECH, the NSF (DMR - 1122594), AFOSR (FA95550 -09-0705), ONR (N00014 -13-1-0662), Army Research Office (ARO) grant W911NF -13-1-0471 and the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) 2013.

By manipulating chemical reactions, behaviors of cells can be mimicked resulting in chemical factories on the nanoscale controlled and not by physical touch but by magnets and lighBy manipulating chemical reactions, behaviors of cells can be mimicked resulting in chemical factories on the nanoscale controlled and not by physical touch but by magnets and lighby physical touch but by magnets and lighby magnets and light.

In the late 1980s, the book Engines of Creation by the nanotechnologist K. Eric Drexler put forth the terrifying idea of nanoscale self - replicating robots that grow into clouds of «gray goo» and devour the world.

«By allowing us to grow structures much faster with a broad range of precursors, this technique really opens up a whole new direction for making a hierarchy of complex three - dimensional structures with nanoscale resolution at the rate that is demanded for manufacturing scalability,» said Andrei Fedorov, a professor in the George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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

Building nanoscale electronic components often involves growing the tiny structures in separate layers and transferring them onto a chip one by one.

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.

But by tinkering with that alignment — spacing it out with other materials or embedding it in a lattice composite at the nanoscale (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter)-- scientists can potentially exponentially increase the strength of these magnets: The stronger the magnet, the fewer of them you need.

UCLA - R3 was built with large molecular rotors that move under the influence of the viscous forces exerted by 10 molecules of liquid trapped in their nanoscale surroundings.

Now, they've extended that work by designing a computer - controlled process to not only create dense stainless steel layers, but to more tightly control the structure of their material from the nanoscale to micron scale.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a method for creating «nano - volcanoes» by shining various colors of light through a nanoscale «crystal ball» made of a synthetic polymer.

Despite years of research by scientists around the world, the extraordinarily small size of matter at the nanoscale has made it challenging to learn how motion works at this scale.

Examples include nacre (mother - of - pearl), tooth enamel, bamboo and the dactyl clubs of mantis shrimp, all of which are nanoscale arrangements of hard platelets connected by soft matrix materials and arranged in overlapping brick - and - mortar, bouligand or other architectures.

Tuning the material structure at the nanoscale level can be really hard to achieve — but what if we had small particles, which assemble all by themselves, creating the required structure?

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

The lens can resolve nanoscale features separated by distances smaller than the wavelength of light.

A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego has for the first time observed nanoscale changes deep inside hybrid perovskite crystals that could offer new insights into developing low - cost, high - efficiency solar cells.

«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.

The researchers used a coherent, nanoscale beam of X-rays generated by the high - flux synchrotron accelerator at the Advanced Light Source to interrogate each nanoparticle.

The images chronicle the evolution of the particles» chemical composition and reaction rates at a nanoscale spatial resolution and a minute - by - minute time resolution.

The research was conducted under the auspices of the Spins and Heat in Nanoscale Electronic Systems (SHINES) Energy Frontier Research Center at UC Riverside, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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 extremeBy 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 extremeby 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.

Taking inspiration from the biological building methods used in cells and the ECM, the Bioinspired Soft Matter Unit, led by Prof. Zhang, has designed and synthesized a nanoscale toolkit of molecules that can interact together to assemble complex molecular structures.

The latter is a tool often used for studying secondary structure of proteins that, however, does not allow for nanoscale mapping of proteins by itself.

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.

That's because each layer would have to be built separately and connected by wires — which would still be prone to traffic jams, unlike the nanoscale elevators in the Stanford design.

The research, Superplastic nanoscale pore shaping by ion irradiation, was published in Nature Communications today and authored by Dr Morteza Aramesh, Dr Mayamei Yashar, Dr Annalena Wolff, and Professor Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov.

The vibrating nanoscale drumheads developed by Feng and his team are made of atomic layers of semiconductor crystals (single -, bi -, tri -, and four - layer MoS2 flakes, with thickness of 0.7, 1.4, 2.1, and 2.8 nanometers), with diameters only about 1 micron.

The study was led by the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, the University Medical Center Göttingen, the Braunschweig University of Technology, the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, the Center for Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain in Göttingen, Germany, and the University of California San Diego.

The multi-national team of experts from the UK, Germany and Russia, was led by Andrei Khlobystov, a Professor of Nanomaterials and Director of The University of Nottingham's Nanoscale and Microscale Research Centre.

«If you can strain graphene by design at the nanoscale, you can artificially engineer its properties.

M.I.T.'s Robert Langer is being recognized for his efforts to fight cancer and other diseases by melding nanoscale engineering with science and medicine

Two years ago, an international team of researchers showed that by manipulating electron spin at a quantum magnetic tunneling junction — a nanoscale sandwich made of two metal electrodes with an insulator in the middle — they could induce a large increase in the junction's capacitance.

David Prendergast, a Facility Director at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a U.S. Department of Energy National User Facility for Nanoscale Science Research, helped the Texas A&M team design and interpret their calculations, which were experimentally verified in part by Fakra using Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source along with structural data collected at Argonne National Lab's Advanced Photon Source.