Sentences with phrase «into nanostructured»

This would be accomplished by inserting positive / negative battery electrodes and electrolytes into the nanostructured fibers - which could then be woven into the uniforms.

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.

To create the anodes, the team used a three - step process that involved crushing and grinding the glass bottles into a fine white power, a magnesiothermic reduction to transform the silicon dioxide into nanostructured silicon, and coating the silicon nanoparticles with carbon to improve their stability and energy storage properties.

By the integration of smallest carbon nanotubes into a nanostructured waveguide, they have developed a compact miniaturized switching element that converts electric signals into clearly defined optical signals.

Researchers create the plasma arc between two carbon electrodes, producing a hot carbon vapor composed of atomic nuclei and molecules that cool and synthesize — or condense — into particles that grow into nanostructures by bunching together.

The five - year, $ 750,000 grant will support Collins and his team of graduate and undergraduate students in their research developing and testing new resonant X-ray scattering techniques that reveal how organic, carbon - based molecules assemble, orient and conform into nanostructures.

«DNA is easy to program, synthesize and replicate, so it can be used as a special material to quickly self - assemble into nanostructures and to guide the operation of molecular - scale devices,» he said.

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This new lipid exchange envelope penetration (LEEP) process for incorporating the nanostructures involves wrapping CNTs or nanoparticles with highly charged DNA or polymer molecules, enabling them to penetrate into the fatty, hydrophobic membranes that surround chloroplasts.

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

They did so by reworking the light bulb's metal light emitter into a flat sheet and flanking it on either side with nanostructured mirrors.

The other is a benzoate molecule which self - assembles into sheet - like nanostructures.

Providing fundamental insights into the interactions between molecules is important for the development of new so - called nanostructured materials.

Cary Baur, a doctoral student in Voit's lab, has figured out a way to incorporate organic nanostructures known as «buckyballs» and single - walled carbon nanotubes into PVDF fibers to double its piezoelectric performance.

The article discusses how DNA molecules can be assembled into tailored and complex nanostructures, and further, how these structures can find uses in therapeutics and bionanotechnological applications.

And minute changes can direct self - assembly into myriad defined nanostructures, making them ideal hosts for a range of different molecules.»

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign have developed a unique process for geometrically transforming two dimensional (2D) micro / nanostructures into extended 3D layouts by exploiting mechanics principles similar to those found in children's «pop - up» books.

The new device relies on a metallic blend of nickel and nickel oxide nanostructures, which help split water into oxygen and hydrogen fuel.

While the plasmon resonances of metals are predetermined in nature, Atwater and his colleagues found that those resonances are capable of being tuned to other wavelengths when the metals are made into tiny nanostructures in the lab.

The nanostructures are etched into the glass using a process known as reactive ion etching, a scalable and straightforward method commonly used to make printed circuit boards.

(B) It is also possible to use DNA molecules that self - assemble into larger nanostructures [2, 3].

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.

Yager then discusses the light - based techniques and laser tools he has developed to arrange molecules into ordered patterns and specific shapes to fabricate more perfect, complex nanostructures.

Resume: The self - assembly of large molecular weight block copolymers into spatially oriented nanodomains has opened up a range of new possibilities in the manufacture of sub-wavelength optical nanostructures, such as Si nanopillars for anti-reflective coatings (1).

Resume: Block copolymers (BCPs) which are able to spontaneously self - assemble into discrete nanostructures have been proposed as a promising candidate for next generation nanopatterning technologies, namely directed self - assembly (DSA), enabling high - resolution patterning in thin films over large areas at low cost.

Block copolymers (BCPs) which are able to spontaneously self - assemble into discrete nanostructures have been proposed as a promising candidate for next generation nanopatterning technologies, namely directed self - assembly (DSA), enabling high - resolution patterning in thin films over large areas at low cost.

It has been reported that the block copolymer can spontaneously self - assemble into various well - defined nanostructures under certain conditions.

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.