Sentences with phrase «creating nanomaterials»

The trick is in nanotechnology, creating nanomaterials out of semiconductor materials to layer over blue LED lights (the most energy efficient LED color), forming better quality white LED light with a range of hues.

Yin, an expert on creating nanomaterials, is now working to create smaller metal sulfide particles with more surface area to further increase co-catalyst performance.

A desert beetle that wrings water from fog has inspired scientists to create a nanomaterial that literally plucks moisture from the air.

Not exact matches

An international research collaboration led by Drexel's Yury Gogotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering and director of its Nanomaterials Research Group, has created a two - dimensional carbon / sulfur nanolaminate that could be a viable candidate for use as a lithium - sulfur cathode.

«The key is getting the nanomaterials to mimic the roughness of the natural tissue, which creates more surface energy and allows for the absorption of proteins important for the tissue to function.»

Heat flow in novel nanomaterials could help in creating environmentally friendly and cost - effective nanometric - scale energy devices.

A team of electrical engineers led by E. Fred Schubert of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, approached the problem by creating a new class of highly porous nanomaterials.

«To our knowledge, we are the first to report that maternal inhalation of humanmade nanomaterials creates a hostile gestational environment capable of impacting fetal health,» Nurkiewicz said.

«Wherever there is abundant sun we can brush on this nanomaterial to harvest solar energy to create clean water,» she says.

Nanoscale construction is a field of nanotechnology that uses nanomaterials as basic building blocks to create materials with specific features.

They chose a rod shape because they thought that would integrate well with the nanowires and curvatures of nanotubes, wrapping around them to create a robust electrode.The unusually long and very flexible strands of the nanomaterials are crucial to the superior features of the electrodes.

«Given that our approach does not depend on the particular particle's material and the large variety of particle shapes available - many more than in a child's building block play set - we have the potential to create many diverse types of new nanomaterials.»

Researchers at Oregon State University and Oregon Health & Science University have created new nanomaterials able to cross cell membranes, establishing a novel platform for the intracellular delivery of molecular drugs and other cargo.

With the new software the scientists were able to create five novel, 24 - subunit cage - like protein nanomaterials.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that the transfer of triplet excitons from nanomaterials to molecules also creates a feedback mechanism that returns some energy to the nanocrystal, causing it to photoluminesce on long time scales.

This unique combination of silicon photodetectors and nanomaterials allowed the Illinois research team to create a point - and - shoot color - polarization camera.

The scientists discovered a technology that produced a sulfur - carbon nanotube substance that created more conductivity on one electrode, and a nanomaterial coating to create stability for the other.

Sergei Kalinin (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)-- Materials and nanoscientist Dr. Kalinin creates novel technologies to study and control the functionality of nanomaterials by combining imaging, big data and materials theory.

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.

He has extended DGU to a wide range of nanomaterials and used these purified materials to create novel electronic, plasmonic and energy storage devices.

The Finalists are also creating technologies that revolutionize electronics and energy storage; developing the science of social and information networks; exploring novel methods to grow, analyze and manipulate nanomaterials; and engineering metamaterials (materials that have properties not found in nature) that interact with electromagnetic and sound waves in unusual ways.

Researchers at Oregon State University and Oregon Health & Science University have created new nanomaterials able to cross cell membranes, establishing a novel platform for the intracellular delivery of molecular drugs and...

In this study, the nanoparticles stay suspended in a liquid «ink,» creating a new nanomaterial called a COF colloid.

Scientists from the National University of Science and Technology MISIS (NUST MISIS), the State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology and the Queensland University (Brisbane, Australia) have created BN / Ag hybrid nanomaterials and have proved their effectiveness as catalysts and antibacterial agents as well as for treating oncological diseases.

Researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), with colleagues at Princeton University, have developed a new method for uniting light - capturing photonic nanomaterials and high - efficiency metal catalysts, creating an «antenna - reactor» plasmonic catalyst.

Maynard et al. say nanotechnology needs to: develop instruments to assess exposure to engineered nanomaterials in air and water within next 3 - 10 years; create and test ways of evaluating the toxicity of nanomaterials in 5 - 15 years; generate models to predict their possible impact on the environment and human health over the next 10 years; develop ways to assess the health and environmental impact of nanomaterials over their entire lifetime, within 5 years; and, enable risk - focused research into nanomaterials, within the next 12 months.

Occasionally though, researchers focus on combining technologies to create an even better one, like tandem solar cells that also produce hydrogen, or in this case, a new nanomaterial that can harness both thermal energy and light into electricity at the same time.

They study the properties and structures of metals, ceramics, plastics, composites, nanomaterials (extremely small substances), and other substances in order to create new materials that meet certain mechanical, electrical, and chemical requirements.