Michael Roukes, a physicist
developing nanoscale tools for bioscience and medicine, says «Room at the Bottom» anticipated a host of important technologies and scientific fields, including spin electronics («spintronics»), microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), electron - beam and ion - beam fabrication and much more.
«The reality is, until you've collected the information, you can't really make good models of how things work,» says nanomaterials scientist Paul Alivisatos, a nanomaterials scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in
developing nanoscale technologies.
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Developing a nanoscale «clutch».»
Three winners share the # 727,000 prize for
developing nanoscale machines — 1000th the width of a human hair — that pave the way for applications in medicine, computing and engineering.
But borophene deposited on a silver substrate
develops nanoscale corrugations.
Trapping light with an optical version of a whispering gallery, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have
developed a nanoscale coating for solar cells that enables them to absorb about 20 percent more sunlight than uncoated devices.
«Although calculations had suggested the coatings would enhance the solar cells, we could not prove this was the case until we had
developed the nanoscale measurement technologies that were needed,» he noted.
Besides having the potential to replace bulky, expensive amplifiers used today for the study of attosecond science and ultrafast optical information processing, the newly
developed nanoscale - amplifier also provides a critical element to the optical interconnects toolkit, potentially providing regenerative amplification in short to long range interconnects.
The researchers are also working to
develop nanoscale energy harvesting, microfluidics - based portable kits for rapid medical diagnostics, and microfluidic tools to deepen our understanding of the physiological dynamics of living systems.
We have
developed nanoscale bacteriophage - tagged magnetic probes, where T7 bacteriophages were bound to magnetic nanoparticles.
An international team of researchers, including Professor C. David Wright from the University of Exeter, have
developed a nanoscale optical «abacus» — which uses light signals to perform arithmetic computations.
A group of researchers at CNRS, Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ), and Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR) have
developed nanoscale components that apart from storing information in magnetic vortices enable reading these out very efficiently.
Not exact matches
The initiative seeks to export the business model used to
develop the nanotechnology sector in Albany, which has grown the past 12 years to include some 13,000 jobs at more than 60 companies and the development of the College of
Nanoscale Science and Engineering of SUNY Albany into a world - class university program.
At Mahoney's State of the County Address in March, Cuomo announced a $ 15 million state commitment to
develop a nanotech research hub in DeWitt that would be an arm of the SUNY College of
Nanoscale Science and Engineering.
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.
Senior author Jelena Vuckovic, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, has been working for years to
develop various
nanoscale lasers and quantum technologies that might help conventional computers communicate faster and more efficiently using light instead of electricity.
In the meantime,
nanoscale carbon structures are being
developed for fast - charging batteries, efficient solar cells, and implantable drug - delivery capsules.
A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego has for the first time observed
nanoscale changes deep inside hybrid perovskite crystals that could offer new insights into
developing low - cost, high - efficiency solar cells.
An X-ray microscopy technique recently
developed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has given scientists the ability to image
nanoscale changes inside lithium - ion battery particles as they charge and discharge.
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have
developed a new technique that lets them pinpoint the location of chemical reactions happening inside lithium - ion batteries in three dimensions at the
nanoscale level.
As part of the IEEE International Conference on RFID, Bauer - Reich will discuss research at NDSU's Center for
Nanoscale Science and Engineering to
develop on - metal RFID tags that use the structure of the tagged object as the antenna.
The new study builds on a technique
developed in 2013 by Sleiman's research group to make
nanoscale «cages» from strands of DNA, and stuff them with lipid - like polymer chains that fold together into a ball - shaped particle that can contain cargo such as drug molecules.
To do this, they have
developed high - throughput and combinatorial computational methods that allow
nanoscale structures to be visualized with relatively low - cost optical techniques.
The vibrating
nanoscale drumheads
developed by Feng and his team are made of atomic layers of semiconductor crystals (single -, bi -, tri -, and four - layer MoS2 flakes, with thickness of 0.7, 1.4, 2.1, and 2.8 nanometers), with diameters only about 1 micron.
«We have been
developing the expertise required to grow intricate core / shell and other well defined nanoparticles for many years,» Vela said, «Through our collaboration with Emily Smith's group, we hope to continue making inroads in our ability to manipulate and direct energy flows at the
nanoscale.»
It's not reruns of «The Jetsons,» but researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have
developed a new microscopy technique that uses a process similar to how an old tube television produces a picture — cathodoluminescence — to image
nanoscale features.
Researchers have
developed hierarchical metallic metamaterial with multi-layered, fractal - like 3 - D architectures to create structures at centimeter scales incorporating
nanoscale features.
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.
The lab
developed state - of - the - art fabrication techniques for soft materials engineering artificial chemical networks at the
nanoscale that, altogether, would be capable of producing a wide variety of patterns.
The researchers relied on a technique
developed at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a research facility for
nanoscale science, to image the individual molecules that make up these structures.
Now physicists at MIT have
developed an experimental technique to simulate friction at the
nanoscale.
Already used in fiber optic communications, the field of applied photonics is making steady progress in
developing optical circuits, which use
nanoscale «optical cavities» as switches or «transistors» for controlling the flow of light.
Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for
Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP), led by the University of Adelaide, have successfully
developed an advanced new imaging technique, which can help assess the quality of early - stage embryos.
The
nanoscale refrigerator
developed by the research group at Aalto University solves a massive challenge: with its help, most electrical quantum devices can be initialized quickly.
«Atomic force microscopy
developed for imaging
nanoscale dynamics of neurons.»
Because of the large magnetic energy scales of these
nanoscale islands, a special, newly
developed thermal treatment is required to achieve the magnetic ground state.
«First on - chip
nanoscale optical quantum memory
developed: Smallest - yet optical quantum memory device is a storage medium for optical quantum networks with the potential to be scaled up for commercial use.»
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.
The energy generated by the device is currently small (about a nanowatt), but Wang says that this is still an important step along the road to
developing useful power sources for
nanoscale devices.
FIRST aims to
develop scientific understanding and validated, predictive models of the
nanoscale environment at fluid — solid interfaces important in electrical energy storage and electrocatalysis.
Combining innovative
nanoscale electrochemistry approaches with advanced analytical techniques, he
develops nanoporous materials, nanostructured carbons and nanocomposites.
Mark Hersam (Northwestern University)-- A materials scientist and a 2014 recipient of a MacArthur «genius grant,» Dr. Hersam
develops methods to grow, analyze and manipulate
nanoscale materials.
The Kavli Institute at Harvard University seeks to
develop a deeper understanding of the functioning of life and biology at the
nanoscale level.
His discoveries of isotopic heterogeneity at the
nanoscale during that exercise gave rise to his interest in
developing new forensic tools for nuclear fuel pellets using NanoSIMS.
We will
developed a novel imaging techniques called multi-functional optical coherence tomography (mf - OCT) that is capable of quantifying
nanoscale structures of neural fiber layers and ganglion cells, and the oxygen consumption of the retina, to detect the two early manifestations of glaucoma.
Why It Matters: Understanding how cycling affects the
nanoscale distribution of elements that make up Li - ion battery cathodes is a critical step toward
developing next - generation cathode materials to achieve the highest battery performance.
The new result will help researchers better understand
nanoscale catalysis and ultimately
develop improved catalysts in the future.
Researchers show that particles on a
nanoscale actually fluctuate more than we expect on a macro scale and
develop new procedures to test what exactly is happening on the level of our increasingly miniature technology.
Infection Control - Scientists
Develop Effective Method to Combat Bacteria by Engineering
Nanoscale Particles
Young scientists from ITMO University have
developed a new type of
nanoscale light sources based on halide perovskites.