Sentences with phrase «in nanostructured»

He has held the Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials since 2003.

Zelenay led the use of nonprecious transition metal catalysts in a composite form, taking advantage of the latest developments in nanostructured materials engineering.

Specifically, I am leading a Project focusing on Nitrogen - Vacancy centers in nanostructured diamond as a means to hyperpolarize nuclear spins for the production of hyperpolarized agents for imaging of cells and tissues in living organisms.

In this work, we describe the development of a large scale, comprehensive Monte Carlo simulator to model thermal transport in nanostructured materials with a large and arbitrary degree of hierarchical disorder.

«We showed that we can deliver anti-cancer drugs exactly in the area where they are needed and they can kill cancer cells,» said Andrey Zakharchenko, a graduate student in the Nanostructured Materials Lab in the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences who led the study.

The presence of that protein makes calcium carbonate crystals form in a nanostructured pattern, rather than smooth and even crystal, study coauthor Marc McKee, a biomineralization researcher at McGill University in Montreal, and colleagues found.

Until now, heat transport in nanostructured materials has largely been controlled by introduction of atomic - scale impurities, interfaces, surfaces and nanoparticles that reduce heat flow by scattering the phonons diffusely.

In addition, they applied the method to thermal transport in nanostructured silicon, a system of current interest with high potential impact on thermoelectric technology, using simulations of unprecedented size.

THE 2012 KAVLI PRIZE IN NANOSCIENCE is awarded to Mildred Dresselhaus «for her pioneering contributions to the study of phonons, electron - phonon interactions, and thermal transport in nanostructures.»

Professor Arne Skjeltorp, of the University of Oslo, and chairman of the Kavli Nanoscience Prize Committee, said that, while an award could have been made for Professor Dresselhaus» work in the field as a whole, members of the committee wanted to honor her for her specific advances in the study of phonons, electron - phonon interactions, and thermal transport in nanostructures.

Professor Arne Skjeltorp, of the University of Oslo, and chairman of the Kavli Nanoscience Prize Committee, said that, while an award could have been made for Professor Dresselhaus» work in the field as a whole, members of the committee wanted to honour her for her specific advances in the study of phonons, electron - phonon interactions and thermal transport in nanostructures.

She investigated and helped explain the fundamental interactions between electrons and phonons in nanostructures, and by the year 2000 was able to isolate the Raman spectra from individual nanotubes.

Dresselhaus has investigated this very fundamental electron — phonon interaction in nanostructures using the powerful techniques of Raman and Resonance Raman spectroscopy.

Dresselhaus receives the prize for her research into uniform oscillations of elastic arrangements of atoms or molecules called phonons, phonon - electron interactions and heat conductivity in nanostructures.

The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience is given to Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, «for her pioneering contributions to the study of phonons, electron - phonon interactions, and thermal transport in nanostructures.»

He is a pioneer in the field of semiconductor spintronics, exploring the quantum mechanical behavior of charges and spins in nanostructures and the foundations of solid - state quantum information processing.

«for her pioneering contributions to the study of phonons, electron - phonon interactions, and thermal transport in nanostructures»

Not exact matches

• Nano - C, a Westwood, Mass. - based developer of nanostructured carbon for energy and electronics applications, raised $ 11.5 million in funding, including a $ 3 million tranche from Ray Stata, cofounder and current chairman of Analog Devices.

While Berkland was working on his Ph.D. in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, faculty members there started a company that incorporated Berkland's research on fabricating micro - and nanostructures from biodegradable polymers.

Then, depending on the initial composition of the alloy and diffusion, the liquid metal can infiltrate the alloy resulting in two interpenetrating connected phases, leading to metal nanostructures with desirable properties.

If scientists «start too early to specialize in biomaterials, there is a risk that they... would know all the possible applications but they will maybe not have the basis to be able to develop new ideas or new systems,» says Christine Dupont - Gillain, who leads the Nanostructured Surfaces for Cell Engineering group at the Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences of the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.

Room - temperature chiral magnetic skyrmions in ultrathin magnetic nanostructures.

«Nanostructures made of previously impossible material: How do you combine different elements in a crystal?

Previous research from the Capasso lab used nanostructures sensitive to polarization to produce two different images encoded in the metasurface.

The second stage, which began in 2005, focuses on active nanostructures that change their size, shape, conductivity or other properties during use.

The NB activity in Alberta is far ranging, with such research as self - assembled nanostructures (M. J. Brett), single - cell cancer analysis (L. M. Pilarski), computational modeling (D. Wishart), micro-total analysis systems or lab on a chip (D. J. Harrison), cell identification and manipulation (K. Kaler), and microsystems and medical diagnostics (Backhouse).

Now investigators at the University of Dortmund in Germany have figured out how to unlink them under normal physiological conditions, potentially offering a controllable way to construct complicated nanostructures or devices that interact with the body.

Though it enables precise atom - by - atom fabrication of nanostructures, the process is very slow because the low density of adsorbed gas molecules in the vacuum environment limits the amount of material available for fabrication.

At LENS, Emiliani says, «I was in charge of forming a research team dedicated to developing high - resolution optical approaches to study single nanostructures.»

She then did a joint Ph.D., at La Sapienza University and the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) in Florence, using optical techniques to investigate quantum effects in semiconductor nanostructures.

Proteins that can build silica nanostructures on our behalf have been «evolved» in the lab.

ARPA — E also gave $ 4.4 million in October 2009 to a group led by physicist George Hadjipanayis of the University of Delaware to create a nanostructured version of the neodymium iron boron magnet that eliminates the need for as much neodymium.

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.

«Neodymium iron boron nanoparticles are difficult to make because they are very reactive,» Hadjipanayis says, in addition to being hard to align within a given nanostructure.

The drawback, according to Wang, is that these nanostructures can be fragile, difficult to make reproducibly when scaled - up and poor in electrochemical stability, limiting their applicability.

The blue and red honeycombed columns in this image are nanostructures on an emerald - patched cattleheart butterfly wing.

The insect's wings sport an azure hue that comes not from pigments, like most colors found in living things, but from tiny nanostructures on the wings» surface (SN: 6/7/08, p. 26).

I'm not sure if they exist in nature, but I think we can create them by designing nanostructures.

Many of the shimmering colors in a butterfly's wings are produced not with pigments, like the melanin that tints our skin, but with nanostructures (pdf).

That's probably because, as researchers at Tel Aviv University revealed, nanostructures in the insect's exoskeleton form a kind of solar cell, harvesting light energy that could power the hornet's work.

They're one of the key ingredients in a new way to craft a spectrum of structural colors — hues created when light interacts with special nanostructures.

Unlike pigments, which create color by absorbing some wavelengths of light and reflecting the rest, the nanostructures are shaped so that they physically bend and scatter light in different directions, sending particular colors back to our eyes.

In one recent study, they obtained good results by incorporating ruthenium ions into a sheet - like nanostructure composed of carbon nitride.

Over time, the nanostructures toward the inner shell became smaller in fertilized eggs, but remained the same in the nonfertilized eggs.

The nanostructures, like leaves, are varied in shape, with tiny rises and falls,» he said.

A group of researchers at Osaka University, succeeded in producing nanostructured gas sensor devices for detecting volatile organic compounds (VOC) in breath for the purpose of healthcare in time equivalent to or shorter than one tenth of the time required for manufacturing conventional gas sensors.

The research «opens up a new possible way that one could pursue in integrating nanostructures with microstructures,» says Charles Lieber, a nanotechnologist at Harvard University.

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.

In 1994, while a PhD student at Harvard University, Yang proposed a method for preparing 2D hybrid perovskite nanostructures and tuning their electronic properties but never acted upon it.

at The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, succeeded in producing nanostructured gas sensor devices for detecting volatile organic compounds (VOC) in breath for the purpose of healthcare in time equivalent to or shorter than one tenth of the time required for manufacturing conventional gas sensors.