Sentences with phrase «for nanowire»

The results are customized proteins that might block the flu virus, or tweak immune system functioning, or serve as building blocks for nanowires and cages.

Not exact matches

A team of researchers at UCI had been experimenting with nanowires for potential use in batteries, but found that over time the thin, fragile wires would break down and crack after too many charging cycles.

«We found out that the growth of the nanowires is not only due to the VLS mechanism but that a second component also contributes, which we were able to observe and quantify for the first time in this experiment.

This change is important when it comes to applications, since the structure and shape of the nanowires have important consequences for the properties of the resulting material.

Their findings do not only provide for a better understanding of growth, they also enable approaches to customizing nanowires with special properties for certain applications in the future.

«We found that growth of nanowires is not only caused by the VLS process, but also by a second component that was observed and quantified directly for the first time in this experiment.

«Strings of electron - carrying proteins may hold the secret to «electric bacteria»: The nanowire structure and electron transfer process of a unique bacterium could provide a foundation for sustainable energy.»

Their observations reveal exact details of the growth process responsible for the evolving shape and crystal structure of the crystalline nanowires.

The findings also provide new approaches to tailoring nanowires with desired properties for specific applications.

«Silicon chip with integrated laser: Light from a nanowire: Nanolaser for information technology.»

A fully integrated nanosystem of semiconductor nanowires for direct solar water splitting.

Using epitaxy, the semiconductor nanowires can then be grown atom for atom out of these holes.»

Silver nanowires have drawn significant interest in recent years for use in many applications, ranging from prosthetic devices to wearable health sensors, due to their flexibility, stretchability and conductive properties.

Nanowires for LEDs are made up of an inner core of gallium nitride (GaN) and a layer of indium - gallium - nitride (InGaN) on the outside, both of which are semiconducting materials.

But conventional techniques for printing circuits don't work well with silver nanowires; the nanowires often clog the printing nozzles.

The researchers have used the new technique to create prototypes that make use of the silver nanowire circuits, including a glove with an internal heater and a wearable electrode for use in electrocardiography.

Tiny cages with nanowire bars could block light from entering or exiting, but allow other materials through — which might be useful for biomedicine

The new system also includes one of the fastest detectors available for single photon counting, a superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD).

In this new work, he and his colleagues have shown that desirable characteristics for such devices, such as high power density, are not unique to carbon - based nanoparticles, and that niobium nanowire yarn is a promising an alternative.

Small magnetic domain wall structures in nanowires can be used to store information and, for example, can be used as angle sensors.

A team of researchers at the Brazilian Center for Physics Research is studying the motion of vortex domain walls — local regions of charge that collectively store information via their configuration — driven by magnetic fields in ferromagnetic nanowires, which are configured in a straight line with an asymmetric Y - like branch.

Researchers have come up with a crossbar design for computer chips, essentially building a layer of nanowires on top of another layer of nanowires at a perpendicular angle.

In the information technology world, nanoprinting could be used to achieve the controlled placement of catalytic seed particles for growing semiconducting nanowires.

He believes nanowires could pave the way for molecular electronics because they are more predictable than other techniques and can be built without conventional lithography.

The magnetization in the branches can be oriented in two different directions along the nanowire axis, where each direction would serve as the «0» and «1» necessary for data storage and processing.

Wang and his team looked at creating a nanowire material that was flexible, easily manufactured and environmentally friendly and could cool with an electric field safe for human use.

Their vertically aligned ferroelectric barium strontium titanate nanowire array can cool about 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit using 36 volts, an electric field level safe for humans.

For the experiment, the team built a tiny battery with a lithium - cobalt anode and a cathode made from tin oxide nanowires just 200 nanometres wide.

Now, researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology have shown for the first time that germanium nanowires can be deposited by a simple, one - step process called electrodeposition that could provide a low cost route to fabricate these anodes.

The germanium nanowires produced by this method have superior electronic properties compared to silicon and can be used as high - capacity anode material for lithium - ion batteries, but the nanowires were previously too expensive and difficult to produce.

Earlier evidence for the quasiparticles was found in one - dimensional nanowires, in which a Majorana fermion sat motionless at each end of the wire, like a particle bound to a particular spot within a material.

ZIF - 8 film is easily coated on Pd nanowires by simple dipping (for 2 - 6 hours) in a methanol solution including Zn (NO3) 2 · 6H2O and 2 - methylimidazole.

Scientists had long suspected that bacterial nanowires were pili — Latin for «hair» — which are hair - like features common on other bacteria, allowing them to adhere to surfaces and even connect to one another.

The team set up an aluminium superconductor and built an escape route for the electrons using nanowires.

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.

For instance, certain substrates on which the nanowires grow create conditions so that the nanowire growth orientation is dictated by the substrate's underlying crystal structure.

Experiments of this type expose the nanowire to a strong magnet, which unlocks an extra way for electrons in the wire to organize themselves at low temperatures.

Kaveh - Baghbadorani has been exploring the development of hybrid metal / organic semiconductor nanowires that work as an energy pump to compensate for energy losses in the metal coating.

«Latest nanowire experiment boosts confidence in Majorana sighting: New test matches theory and offers the best evidence yet for the oddball particles.»

We will present the selected technologies that include silver nanowires transparent conductive films, silicon anode for Li - ion batteries and 3D micro batteries.

For, say, perturbation experiments, we use 1.5 - micron or 2 - micron length nanowires, but these can be longer.

For example, researchers use SCF processes to form nanoparticles or nanowires inside the tiny nanotubes.

Robinson, J.T., Jorgolli, M., Shalek, A.K., Yoon, M.H., Gertner, R.S., and Park, H., «Vertical Nanowire Electrode Arrays as a Scalable Platform for Intracellular Interfacing to Neuronal Circuits,» Nature Nanotech.

Prof. Fernando Patolsky; High - Capacity, Three - Dimensional Silicon Nanowire (SiNW) Anode for Lithium - Ion Batteries

In the notice, Chang Ming Li from the Institute for Clean Energy & Advanced Materials (ICEAM) at Southwest University in China, states that there is «insufficient evidence to conclusively» identify the composition of the nanowire array described in the article, which «severely undermines the validity of the reported conclusions.»

Dr. El - Naggar has increased our understanding of electron transfer focusing on bacterial nanowires, and is working to develop new nanomaterials and tools for energy conversion.

Resume: Transparent conducting oxides such as Sn doped In2O3 nanowires (NWs) have been investigated in the past since they are important building blocks for the realization of novel electronic and optoelectronic devices like solar cells, but In is rare and expensive [1].

In the case of Ge - based semiconductors a lot of work was done on the direct tailoring of the material geometry (nanowires, phononic crystals, nanoporous materials, etc.) achieving for example materials with ultra-low thermal conductivity.

The authors of the Angewandte Chemie study, Liangfang Zhang and Joseph Wang from the University of California San Diego, and their colleagues now propose ultrasound - propelled gold nanowires as an active transport / release vehicle for the Cas9 - sgRNA complex over the membrane.

Resume: Silicon nanowires have attracted high attention for their possible application in nanoelectronics and thermoelectricity.