Sentences with phrase «class of materials»

Computational materials discovery often involves making predictions for an entire class of materials, such as metals, metal oxides or semiconductors.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown that copper - based superconductors, or cuprates — the first class of materials found to carry electricity with...

Her work in the area of nanoscale materials and microstructural evolution during severe plastic deformation has lead to advances in our understanding of this class of materials.

This research has demonstrated the ability to control the synthesis and tailoring of the photophysical properties of small metal nano - clusters, which represents an emerging and interesting class of materials that can be used to create new biological detectors that overcome many difficulties of earlier approaches.

Organic compounds of phosphorus form a wide class of materials; many are required for life, but some are extremely toxic.

A team of scientists from across the U.S. has found a new way to create molecular interconnections that can give a certain class of materials exciting new properties, including improving their ability to catalyze chemical reactions or harvest energy from light.

Fu works on theories of topological insulators — a new class of materials whose surfaces can freely conduct electrons even though their interiors are electrical insulators — and topological superconductors.

The second area of research will explore a class of materials called topological insulators — materials that conduct only at their surface.

The collaborators work at the forefront of research into high - temperature superconductors, an exciting class of materials exhibiting superconductivity at temperatures as comparatively warm as -100 degrees celsius.

«It has to be designed properly in order to achieve the limit, which is why people haven't seen large enhancements with such materials before, but this really opens up a new class of materials that may be used.»

Materials scientists at Argonne National Laboratory synthesized single crystals of a metallic trilayer nickelate compound, which shows similarities to a technologically valuable class of materials called high - temperature superconductors — and with the right ingredients, could potentially become one.

The materials the team studied belong to a class known as alkaline - earth - metal binary oxides, whose constituents are «among the most abundant class of materials on Earth,» Yildiz says.»

At this year's APS meeting, however, the hallways were filled with talk of a promising newcomer — an eccentric class of materials known as topological insulators.

Placed around a copper cylinder, the arrangement created the illusion that the cylinder was made of a dielectric, a class of materials including porcelain and glass that do not conduct electricity and are more transparent to radio waves.

Remarkably, for a large class of materials, the form of the conductivity increase is universal — it doesn't depend on the material involved, but instead is the same for a wide range of dissimilar materials.

Chris Van de Walle, a professor in U.C. Santa Barbara's Materials Department, has been studying conductivity in a class of materials called transparent conductors, used in solar cells to let in as much light as possible.

The structure is an acoustic version of a hotly researched class of materials called topological insulators.

Strontium cobaltites are just one example of a class of materials known as transition metal oxides, which is considered promising for a variety of applications including electrodes in fuel cells, membranes that allow oxygen to pass through for gas separation, and electronic devices such as memristors — a form of nonvolatile, ultrafast, and energy - efficient memory device.

«This general class of materials is known to be robust and to hold up well under various experimental conditions, and these qualities should allow the field to develop faster,» he added.

With their current work, the MIT researchers have enabled the control of the phase and electrical properties of this class of materials in a practical way, by applying an electrical charge.

A new class of materials is poised to take condensed - matter physics by storm.

«This work provides a fundamental understanding of an exciting class of materials with numerous potential applications in technologies such as ion batteries, catalysis, and superconductors,» lead author Hidetaka Kasai says.

Milton said the idea of field patterns came to him while he was pondering a class of materials called hyperbolic metamaterials.

The team says the findings represent an «extremely promising» new class of materials that can be programmed to seamlessly change shape.

Researches have uncovered «smoking - gun» evidence to confirm the workings of an emerging class of materials that could make possible «spintronic» devices and practical quantum computers far more powerful than today's technologies.

The quantum behavior in this new class of materials has led them to be called «topological Dirac semi-metals» in reference to English quantum physicist and 1933 Nobel Prize winner Paul Dirac, who noted that electrons could behave like light.

Purdue University doctoral student Yang Xu, lead author of a new research paper on «topological insulators,» an emerging class of materials that could make possible «spintronic» devices and practical quantum computers far more powerful than today's technologies, is shown here inspecting devices made from topological insulators under a microscope before electrical measurements.

In topological insulators and the new class of materials the Princeton researchers studied, the unique properties of the atoms combine to create quantum effects that coax electrons into acting similar to a light wave instead of like individual particles.

These particles, called micelles, are one type of a class of materials known as nanoparticles.

Now, scientists at Princeton University have made a step forward in developing a new class of materials that could be used in future technologies.

Joint research by Helmholtz - Zentrum Berlin, the University of Rostock, and Freie Universität Berlin as well as other partners has now investigated for the first time how light creates charge carriers in this class of materials and established details about charge mobility and lifetimes.

«New class of materials for organic electronics: Joint project details charge transport in polymeric carbon nitride for first time.»

A type of black hole predicted by string theory may help to explain the properties of a mysterious class of materials called «strange metals».

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

From storing information to storing energy, a special class of materials with the right properties could get the job done.

Now, research performed in part at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has revealed a way to reduce the energy demand in one key step of plastic manufacturing by using a class of materials that can filter impurities more efficiently than the conventional manufacturing process.

In so - called Mott insulators for example, a class of materials now being intensively researched, the electrons ought to flow freely and the materials should therefore be able to conduct electricity as well as metals.

These PILs are fairly inexpensive to prepare, because they are made by mixing together an acid, such as acetic acid (more commonly known as vinegar), and a base (a chemical class of materials called amines).

«Our newfound understanding of how droplets of another class of materials dry,» Collings said, «substantiates some concepts developed before but also extends our knowledge into realms where the behavior is different.»

Scientists at the U.S Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have discovered a new way to generate very low - resistance electric current in a new class of materials.

He, too, was beginning to think it might be possible to create a new class of materials, comprising substances whose physical properties came not from their position in the periodic table of elements but from design decisions made by human beings.

Semiconducting oxides are a new class of materials that are currently enjoying great attention in the field of semiconductor technology.

Over the past 4 years, a new class of materials for making solar cells has burst onto the scene.

Gallium arsenide is but one of a whole class of materials called III - V semiconductors, and this work opens a path to integrate oxide 2DEGs with others.

New research centers were established to understand, develop, and commercialize the new class of materials.

«Novel capping strategy improves stability of perovskite nanocrystals: Study addresses instability issues with organometal - halide perovskites, a promising class of materials for solar cells, LEDs, and other applications.»

The team's work with QTIs was born out of the decade - old understanding of the properties of a class of materials called topological insulators.

A growing class of materials possess «shape memory» — they hold one form at a certain temperature and transform into another shape when heated.

A team of University of Illinois bioengineers has taken a new look at an old tool to help characterize a class of materials called metal organic frameworks — MOFs for short.

The researchers have developed a new class of materials comprising elements such as bismuth, iron, chromium, and oxygen.