Sentences with phrase «created nanostructured»

By adding semiconducting nanoparticles to polymers, the Materials + Technologies Research Group (GMT) of the Polytechnical College of San Sebastian of the UPV / EHU - University of the Basque Country has created nanostructured composite materials with specific optical and electrical properties that vary according to size.

ARPA — E also gave $ 4.4 million in October 2009 to a group led by physicist George Hadjipanayis of the University of Delaware to create a nanostructured version of the neodymium iron boron magnet that eliminates the need for as much neodymium.

«For this work, we focused on creating nanostructures using photosensitive polymers, which are commonly used in lithography,» Zhang says.

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.

The study's first author, Moonhee Kim, a graduate student in Weiss» lab, managed to isolate and control the reactions of pairs of molecules by creating nanostructures tailored to allow only two molecules fit in place.

Not exact matches

Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign have developed a simple new fabrication technique to create beautiful and complex 3 - D micro - and nanostructures with many advantages over 3 - D printing.

Nanostructures that iridesce may often just be a way birds or butterflies can create an unusual color rather than a way to produce iridescence for its own sake.

I'm not sure if they exist in nature, but I think we can create them by designing nanostructures.

They're one of the key ingredients in a new way to craft a spectrum of structural colors — hues created when light interacts with special nanostructures.

Unlike pigments, which create color by absorbing some wavelengths of light and reflecting the rest, the nanostructures are shaped so that they physically bend and scatter light in different directions, sending particular colors back to our eyes.

The team used titanium dioxide, a ubiquitous material found in everything from paint to sunscreen, to create the nanoscale array of smooth and high - aspect ratio nanostructures that form the heart of the metalens.

«This should help us to create new engineered nanostructures, such as bonded networks of atoms that have a particular shape and structure for use in electronic devices.

«With this nanostructured electrolyte, we have created materials with good mechanical strength and good ionic conductivity at room temperature.»

An example of this kind of coloring by light interference is found in nature: Squids can modify the nanostructure of their skin to mirror back their surrounding environment, creating a natural camouflage.

The team is exploring ways to utilize the nanostructures for various catalytic and biomedical applications and to refine their technique to create gold films.

To create the anodes, the team used a three - step process that involved crushing and grinding the glass bottles into a fine white power, a magnesiothermic reduction to transform the silicon dioxide into nanostructured silicon, and coating the silicon nanoparticles with carbon to improve their stability and energy storage properties.

Now, researchers led by Xiaoyu «Rayne» Zheng, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech have published a study in the journal Nature Materials that describes a new process to create lightweight, strong and super elastic 3 - D printed metallic nanostructured materials with unprecedented scalability, a full seven orders of magnitude control of arbitrary 3 - D architectures.

The researchers have also shown that they can get the nanospheres to self - assemble in a regularly - spaced array, which in turn can be used to create a uniform pattern of 3 - D nanostructures.

The insects owe their brilliant looks to photonic nanostructures — crystalline structures in their wings that reflect light and repeat on the order of every few nanometers — and now scientists think that they have figured out how these structures create such vivid colors.

The device enhances the sensing properties of the technique by creating «hot spots,» or narrow gaps within the nanostructure which intensified the Raman signal, the researchers said.

Team leader Jason Fowlkes, a research staff member at ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, said the new system integrates design and construction into one streamlined process that creates complex 3 - D nanostructures.

Metallurgists have now followed nature's lead, creating steel with a similar bonelike nanostructure.

Recently highlighted in a C&EN article titled Simple Process Creates Near - Perfect Mirrors Out of a Metamaterial, researchers out of Vanderbilt University developed a method to self - assemble silicon nanostructures -LSB-...]

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.

Researchers create the plasma arc between two carbon electrodes, producing a hot carbon vapor composed of atomic nuclei and molecules that cool and synthesize — or condense — into particles that grow into nanostructures by bunching together.

Researcher Arun Devaraj and his colleagues at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland use an atom probe tomography system, or APT, to create an «atomic map» of how the individual atoms within a titanium alloy are arranged, and then manipulated the arrangement to form a special nanostructure — resulting in the strongest titanium alloy available today.

Using a technique known as thermochemical nanolithography (TCNL), researchers have developed a new way to fabricate nanometer - scale ferroelectric structures directly on flexible plastic substrates that would be unable to withstand the processing temperatures normally required to create such nanostructures.

It can be used to control which molecules link with others to form polymers, so we can create very tightly packed three - dimensional nanostructures with metamaterial properties.

Andreas Dahlin and his PhD student Kunli Xiong were working on placing conductive polymers on nanostructures, they discovered that the combination would be perfectly suited to creating electronic displays as thin as paper.

When Andreas Dahlin, Assistant Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, and his PhD student Kunli Xiong were working on placing conductive polymers on nanostructures they discovered that the combination would be perfectly suited to creating electronic displays as thin as paper.