One of the biggest challenges in developing effective catalysts is
designing the nanostructured porous solids on and in which reactions take place.
I'm not sure if they exist in nature, but I think we can create them by
designing nanostructures.
He formulated the concept of metamaterials, whose precisely
designed nanostructures give them properties not found in nature.
Not exact matches
These results show that understanding how the
nanostructures are formed could lead to the ability to
design materials with properties ranging from high surface area to high strength for batteries, nuclear reactors, and other energy applications.
We are only beginning to learn from nature and shift our
design approaches towards these that emerged in natural evolution — says Piotr Wasylczyk, head of the Photonic
Nanostructure Facility at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, Poland, who led the project.
«Newly discovered «
design rule» brings nature - inspired
nanostructures one step closer: First atomic - resolution structure of a peptoid nanosheet.»
The study, published in the October 28 Early Online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first to demonstrate the application of this methodology to the
design of self - assembled
nanostructures, and shows the potential of machine learning and «big data» approaches embodied in the new Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering at Columbia.
The team plans to continue exploring the
design space of potential ssDNA - grafted colloidal
nanostructures, improving its forward models, and bring in more advanced machine learning techniques.
Wachsman and his research colleagues have also published details in Science on a potential path toward SOFCs that operate at temperatures as low as 350 degrees C with a new
design that features high - conductivity electrolytes and a specially
nanostructured electrode.
The group also has developed universal
design rules — that is, those that are applicable to a number of different types of surfaces and polymers — to understand key factors that link surface characteristics to
nanostructure formation.
«Nowadays, software and techniques to
design and simulate DNA
nanostructures are extremely powerful and user - friendly, and thus, researchers can easily construct their own DNA - objects for various uses.
The ability to
design new protein
nanostructures could have useful implications in targeted delivery of drugs, in vaccine development and in plasmonics — manipulating electromagnetic signals to guide light diffraction for information technologies, energy production or other uses.
Nanotechnology involves the measurement,
design, building, and tailoring of nanoparticles and
nanostructures to meet a variety of needs.
Professor Laura Cipolla, from the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences at the University of Milano - Bicocca, added: «Based on our background on the chemical modification of bio - and
nanostructured materials, proteins, and carbohydrates, we
designed a new chemical approach in order to force the organic component polycaprolactone to stay together in a stable way with the inorganic component silica.»
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.
F) fishnet pattern G) flower and bird
design The completed
nanostructures are seen in the accompanying atomic force microscopy images.
The authors stress that the new
design innovations described can be used to compose and construct any imaginable wireframe
nanostructure — a significant advancement for the burgeoning field.
-LSB-...] article, Novel wireframe
nanostructures from new DNA origami
design process, first appeared on the Foresight Institute Molecular -LSB-...]
This new
design approach has clearly produced a variety of intricate
nanostructures.
Prof. Su's current research fields include the
design, the synthesis, the property study and the molecular engineering of
nanostructures and highly organized and hierarchically self - assembled porous materials, bio-integrated living and bio-inspired materials including leaf - like materials by the immobilization of living organisms and biomaterials for catalysis, photocatalysis, CO2 reduction and water splitting, artificial photosynthesis, nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, energy storage and conversion, cell therapy and biomedical applications.
He also works on the
design of biomedical applications based on the plasmonic properties of well - defined metal nanoparticles and
nanostructures.
Design of functional and
nanostructured biomaterials for applications in nucleic acid delivery, precision medicine, and regenerative medicine