Sentences with phrase «creating nanoscale»

THE shimmering sea mouse, Aphrodita aculeata, may hold a key to creating nanoscale electronics, making it possible to produce nanowires 100 times longer than existing methods allow — and for a fraction of the price.

Creating nanoscale heat sources was a significant challenge: Lasers can only be focused to a spot the size of the light's wavelength, about one micron — more than 10 times the length of the mean free path in some phonons.

«It's a terrific paper,» says Rice University chemist Dan Colbert, who sees the study as an important advance toward creating nanoscale molecular structures.

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.

The new technique could also be used to create nanoscale «inkjet printers» for printing electronics or biological cells, or to create antennas or photonic components.

Over the past decade, researchers have been working to create nanoscale materials and devices using DNA as construction materials through a process called «DNA origami.»

And, because there is a high concentration of chromium atoms in the material, this creates nanoscale domains of order with the overall «chaos» of the high entropy alloy.

Scientists create nanoscale vehicle to battle cancer without harming healthy cells A tiny capsule invented at a UCLA lab could go a long way toward improving cancer treatment.

University of Wisconsin — Madison engineers have created a nanoscale device that can emit light as powerfully as an object 10,000 times its size.

Making a giant leap in the «tiny» field of nanoscience, a multi-institutional team of researchers is the first to create nanoscale particles composed of up to eight distinct elem... Read more

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He views their union as critical to the survival of SUNY Poly, which was created in 2014 when Kaloyeros spun off the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, or CNSE, from the University at Albany and merged it with what was then called SUNY IT, a technical college in the town of Marcy outside Utica.

Kaloyeros founded the College of Nanoscale Science and Technology more than a decade ago, creating a major economic driver for the region and raising his profile around the entire state.

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.

UAlbany is currently creating its own engineering school that could technically absorb what is now called the Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

They combined spherical nucleic acids (SNAs, which are nanoscale globular forms of RNA) with a common commercial moisturizer to create a way to topically knock down a gene known to interfere with wound healing.

Now two researchers have applied the same technique to the nanoscale, in the process creating the first nanoparticles with precisely patterned surfaces.

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

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.

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.

This simulation shows that a perfectly spaced array of nanoscale petal ridges (left, yellow cross section) creates true iridescence, with different wavelengths visible (yellow lines) from different angles.

To see whether bees respond more to iridescence or a blue halo, researchers created sets of artificial flowers, pieces of epoxy resin with some kind of nanoscale - ridged array.

Wilson, the sporting goods manufacturer, has nanoengineered layers of clay to double the playing life of its Double Core tennis balls; L'Oréal uses nanoscale particles and capsules in their cosmetic creams that allow replenishing ingredients to penetrate deep into the skin; and the Australian company Advanced Powder Technology has created Zinclear, a translucent zinc oxide sunblock composed of nanoparticles as small as the tiniest known viruses.

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?

The liquid is a solution of small protein pieces that assemble into nanoscale fibers on contact, creating a gel that stops the flow of blood without clotting or pressure.

Molecules are delivered from the AFM tip to a solid substrate of interest via capillary transport, making DPN a potentially useful tool for creating and functionalizing nanoscale devices.

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

«A classical framework doesn't apply to this complex system,» said Sankaranarayanan, who helped to create complex models of the perovskite's behavior at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, both DOE Office of Science User Facilities.

Because the «nanoscale - sculpturing» process not only creates a 3D surface structure, which can be purely physically bonded without chemicals, the targeted etching can also remove harmful particles from the surface, which is of particularly great interest in medical technology.

He is also interested in the potential to create more complicated nanoscale structures using ice.

The resulting «designer nanotubes,» she adds, promise to be far cheaper to produce on a large scale than those created with so - called DNA origami, another innovative technique for using DNA as a nanoscale construction material.

To create the nano cages, researchers start with a nanoscale cube or octahedron of less expensive palladium, then deposit a few layers of platinum atoms on top of it.

Scientists have unlocked the secret to creating stable dynamic skyrmions — the nanoscale magnetic whirls that promise to meet our insatiable appetite for data storage.

Downsizing silicon to the nanoscale has been shown to reduce this problem, and by combining an abundant and relatively pure form of silicon dioxide and a low - cost chemical reaction, the researchers created lithium - ion half - cell batteries that store almost four times more energy than conventional graphite anodes.

Researchers have developed hierarchical metallic metamaterial with multi-layered, fractal - like 3 - D architectures to create structures at centimeter scales incorporating nanoscale features.

«The way to create viable, profitable technology in the nanoscale regime, and build billions of copies of tiny devices, is to harness nature's properties of self - assembly,» says nanotechnologist Uzi Landman of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new lithography technique that uses nanoscale spheres to create three - dimensional (3 - D) structures with biomedical, electronic and photonic applications.

Vuletic says that at the nanoscale, friction may exact a greater force — for instance, creating wear and tear on tiny motors much faster than occurs at larger scales.

Researchers from North Carolina State University, Duke University and the University of Copenhagen have created the world's largest DNA origami, which are nanoscale constructions with applications ranging from biomedical research to nanoelectronics.

Easy to control, the new gold - catalyzed process for creating patterns of channels with nanoscale dimensions could help to spawn entirely new technologies fashioned from ensembles of ultra-small structures.

Washington State University researchers have developed a unique, 3 - D manufacturing method that for the first time rapidly creates and precisely controls a material's architecture from the nanoscale to centimeters.

Bulk nanoscale technologies were used to create three - segment nanowires of gold and nickel, and magnetic bearings of gold, nickel, and chromium.

The scientists used a common, inexpensive manufacturing material, cerium oxide, to create a tiny, nanoscale trap.

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

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have created a sort of nanoscale display case that enables new atomic - scale views of hard - to - study chemical and biological samples.

Being able to put atomic, molecular, and nanoscale species where we want them provides new understanding of quantum properties and allows us to create new structures from scratch with a wide range of potential applications.

That's why scientists have created a device that identifies microscopic life, based on nanoscale movements instead of chemistry.

We have found that the MgO films created under reactive BD conditions are composed of a tilted array of porous nanoscale crystalline filaments with high porosity (~ 90 %) and high - surface area (~ 1000 m2 / g).

They form molecular species that activate the carbon dioxide making it easier to convert, and create new, nonuniform solvent structures that can act as nanoscale reactors to promote chemical reactions.