Sentences with phrase «in nanostructured materials»

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

Fischer, along with collaborator Michael Crommie, a UC Berkeley professor of physics, captured these images with the goal of building new graphene nanostructures, a hot area of research today for materials scientists because of their potential application in next - generation computers.

In the case of Voit's materials, the carbon nanostructures even out and increase the overall strength of the electrical field.

Bank is finding ways to grow and use crystalline semiconductor nanostructures for use in new materials and devices for electronics and optoelectronics.

Over the last decade, applied physicists have developed nanostructured materials that can produce completely new states of light exhibiting strange behavior, such as bending in a spiral, corkscrewing and dividing like a fork.

Now, researchers led by Xiaoyu «Rayne» Zheng, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech have published a study in the journal Nature Materials that describes a new process to create lightweight, strong and super elastic 3 - D printed metallic nanostructured materials with unprecedented scalability, a full seven orders of magnitude control of arbitrary 3 - D archiMaterials that describes a new process to create lightweight, strong and super elastic 3 - D printed metallic nanostructured materials with unprecedented scalability, a full seven orders of magnitude control of arbitrary 3 - D archimaterials with unprecedented scalability, a full seven orders of magnitude control of arbitrary 3 - D architectures.

There is an increasing trend of using carbon based nanostructured materials as components in solar cells.

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.»

«One of the things that make nanostructures interesting, is that the surface plays a larger role in defining the material's properties,» says Aloni.

By «crumpling» to increase the surface area of graphene - gold nanostructures, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign have improved the sensitivity of these materials, opening the door to novel opportunities in electronics and optical sensing applications.

«This work demonstrates the unique capability of micro-to-nanoscale topographies of the crumpled graphene - Au nanoparticles — higher density, three - dimensional optically active materials — that are further enhanced by the formation of hot spots, bringing the nanoparticles closer,» explained Juyoung Leem, a graduate student and first author of the study, «Mechanically Self - Assembled, Three - Dimensional Graphene?Gold Hybrid Nanostructures for Advanced Nanoplasmonic Sensors,» published in Nano Letters.

Applications for this research demonstrate implications for use in materials like abrasion resistant paints, high surface area catalyst, electron tunneling barriers, ultra-violet adsorption or capture in sunscreens or solar cells and even beyond when core - shell nanoparticles are used as buildings blocks for making new artificial nanostructured solids with unprecedented properties.

We study the phonons and their interactions with other exciations (electron, spin, magnon, other phonons) and nanostructures in materials.

He has pioneered the use of nanomaterials in energy storage devices and has created numerous breakthrough materials - based solutions that dramatically improve battery capacity and cycle life, including nanostructured silicon anodes, sulfur cathodes, and stable lithium metal anodes.

There, she studied how strain state and interface structure in oxide nanostructured materials grown by a solution route changed the material's superconductivity, magnetism and other properties.

Solid state physics, including the physics of condensed materials, nanostructures, thin films and surfaces and also topics in the field of theoretical and experimental optics, including the physics of optical crystals, nonlinear and quantum optics, and laser physics.

Resume: Thermal properties of nanostructures are of interest due to their applications in thermoelectric materials and energy harvesting.

Jorik is a postdoc in the Brongersma lab in the department of Materials Sciences, where he is working on nanostructured surfaces for the control over light - matter interactions.

A novel nanostructured material based on tantalum oxide could make possible non-volatile crossbar array memories that store up to 162 gigabits in 3 - D memory stacks.

The latest investigations on the thermal properties of silicon, the most common material in electronics, micro - and nano - electro - mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) and photonics, have pointed to nanostructuring as a highly efficient approach to acoustic phonon engineering [1 - 3].

Why it matters: The demand for miniaturization of electronic devices will benefit from a more in - depth understanding of nanostructured materials.

In order to make these materials more competitive, scientists need to develop a better understanding of organic polymers» nanostructures.

His main interest is in the theory of spin transport and dynamics in insulating and conducting nanostructured materials.

Regarding carbon nanostructures, she pioneered Raman spectroscopy as a sensitive tool for the characterization of materials one atomic layer in wall thickness, namely carbon nanotubes and graphene.

«With our new ability to probe both polymer properties and nanostructure, it will be possible to tune materials for optimal performance in an array of novel technologies, Collins said.

The research team, which consists of graduates and undergraduates in Vanderbilt's interdisciplinary materials science program and department of mechanical engineering, describe this achievement in a paper titled «From the Junkyard to the Power Grid: Ambient Processing of Scrap Metals into Nanostructured Electrodes for Ultrafast Rechargeable Batteries» published online this week in the journal ACS Energy Letters.

Schüth talked about the progress made in controlling the properties of nanostructures for catalytic materials.

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For a long time, Aizenberg's research has focused on studying complex natural micro and nanostructured materials — such as those in iridescent opals or in butterfly wings — and unraveling the ways biology controls the chemistry and morphology of its nanoscale building blocks.

Grate is an internationally recognized leader in sensors and nanostructured materials in analytical chemistry and holds the position of Laboratory Fellow at PNNL, where EMSL is located.

His research interests include chemistry of nanostructured materials, in particular porous materials, and related functional applications, especially for clean energy.

The confinement of noble gases on nanostructured surfaces, in contrast to bulk materials, at non-cryogenic temperatures represents a formidable challenge.

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

He is the Director of the Center for Light Activated Nanostructures (CLAN) in Bologna, a University - CNR joint laboratory for research in the areas of photochemistry, supramolecular chemistry, materials science and nanoscience.

Important achievements have been done in the preparation and characterization of: i) Gold nanoparticles stabilised through thiol derivatised organic - and bio-molecules; ii) nanocomposite coatings for low friction and high wear resistance applications and iii) new nanostructured materials for hydrogen storage.

Nanostructuring of materials is a task at the heart of many modern disciplines in mechanical engineering, as well as optics, electronics, and the life sciences.