Sentences with phrase «issue of nature materials»

These particles can easily be manufactured and integrated into a variety of materials, and can withstand extreme temperatures, sun exposure, and heavy wear, says Doyle, the senior author of a paper describing the particles in the April 13 issue of Nature Materials.

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The issue at stake is not whether one needs material criteria by which to interpret the whole, but rather what is the nature of the criteria.

This way alone lies a true understanding of those philosophical issues which lie behind the natures of material entities.

This special issue addresses modern developments in controlling and manipulating light: how light - based technologies are shrinking and becoming faster (Koenderink et al., p. 516); how recent theoretical developments in the manipulation of light are being implemented to provide materials with properties not available in nature (Pendry et al., p. 521); how the quantum properties of light are being exploited in new technologies (Walmsley, p. 525); and how new light sources are coming online that can probe the structure of matter on spatial and time scales that provide an exquisitely detailed picture of our microscopic world (Miao et al., p. 530).

«This whole issue of emerging resistance of antibiotics is going to be a huge problem in the foreseeable future,» says James Hedrick, the IBM Research advanced organic materials scientist who led the study, published April 4 in Nature Chemistry (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group).

Experts say the new fullerene, described in tomorrow's issue of Nature, may be easier to fashion into everything from high - temperature superconductors to high - strength materials.

Their method, published in the most recent issue of Nature journal Computational Materials, provides a technique to produce a «dictionary» of the atomic building blocks found in metals, alloys, semiconductors and other mMaterials, provides a technique to produce a «dictionary» of the atomic building blocks found in metals, alloys, semiconductors and other materialsmaterials.

The new material has a refractive index of 1.05, the team reports in the March issue of Nature Photonics, the lowest ever reported for a thin film.

Searching for a better way to isolate metal titanium, a team led by materials chemists George Zheng Chen and Derek Fray of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom came up with an electrochemical technique, they report in the 21 September issue of Nature.

Now, a team from Columbia University, writing in the November 19 issue of Nature, reports creating ultraflat samples of graphene in which the material's ripples are suppressed.

► In an editorial in this week's issue, Science Editor - in - Chief Marcia McNutt gave an update on Science in the Classroom, «an online resource of annotated research papers published in Science, with associated teaching materials designed to help pre-college and college students understand how science moves forward as a structured way of revealing the laws of nature.»

The discovery, reported in tomorrow's issue of Nature, relies on a phenomenon called colossal magnetoresistance — a large drop in a material's electrical resistance in response to an applied magnetic field — that has previously been seen only at very low temperatures.

A team led by John Mitchell, an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and associate director of the laboratory's Materials Science Division, describe the compound's potential as a high - temperature superconductor in the June 12 issue of Nature Physics.

The finding, published in the February 11 issue of Nature, confirms the commonly held supposition that the vigorous star formation in the young universe largely stems from an early bounty of raw materials, rather than a more efficient process of star production.

In research appearing in the advanced online issue of the journal Nature Materials, a system for the programmed assembly of light - gathering elements or chromophores is described.

Researchers say the discovery, reported in the 21/28 December issue of Nature, is a significant advance for materials science that could help make semiconductors even more efficient at storing and manipulating information.

The researchers, from the University of California, San Diego, the University of Southern California and the California Institute of Technology, describe the material's fabrication and testing in a recent issue of Nature Scientific Reports.

While the issue of nanobes continues to be debated, the Queensland group is trying to determine the exact nature of nanobe genetic material.

Lookman and coauthors Dezhen Xue, Prasanna V. Balachandran, John Hogde, James Theiler, and Deqing Xue published their research in an article titled «Accelerated search for materials with targeted properties by adaptive design,» which was published in the April 15 issue of Nature Communications.

NuSTAR, a high - energy X-ray observatory, has created the first map of radioactive material in a supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A, or Cas A, to reveal how shock waves likely tear massive dying stars apart, the researchers said in a study, published in the Feb. 20 issue of Nature.

WWF may refer to: World Wide Fund for Nature, a nature conservation organization previously named World Wildlife Fund (and still using the former name in some markets) World Wrestling Federation, the name used from 1979 to 2002 by the professional wrestling company now known as WWE Welded wire fabric, a reinforcing material typically used in poured concrete slabs Working Women's Forum, an organisation in India World Water Forum, an international forum for water issues Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft's workflow management framework Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway, a former 2 foot gauge railroad in Maine, United States WWF (file format), a campaign to produce PDF electronic documents that forbid printing Words with Friends, a game for Apple and Android platforms Waterside Workers» Federation, a former Australian trade union, now the Maritime Union of AusNature, a nature conservation organization previously named World Wildlife Fund (and still using the former name in some markets) World Wrestling Federation, the name used from 1979 to 2002 by the professional wrestling company now known as WWE Welded wire fabric, a reinforcing material typically used in poured concrete slabs Working Women's Forum, an organisation in India World Water Forum, an international forum for water issues Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft's workflow management framework Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway, a former 2 foot gauge railroad in Maine, United States WWF (file format), a campaign to produce PDF electronic documents that forbid printing Words with Friends, a game for Apple and Android platforms Waterside Workers» Federation, a former Australian trade union, now the Maritime Union of Ausnature conservation organization previously named World Wildlife Fund (and still using the former name in some markets) World Wrestling Federation, the name used from 1979 to 2002 by the professional wrestling company now known as WWE Welded wire fabric, a reinforcing material typically used in poured concrete slabs Working Women's Forum, an organisation in India World Water Forum, an international forum for water issues Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft's workflow management framework Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway, a former 2 foot gauge railroad in Maine, United States WWF (file format), a campaign to produce PDF electronic documents that forbid printing Words with Friends, a game for Apple and Android platforms Waterside Workers» Federation, a former Australian trade union, now the Maritime Union of Australia

Describing the issue of interactivity versus authority as about «the physical nature of materials and how we relate to that as human beings,» he sounds like Clement Greenberg pleading for self - reflective art against kitsch.

The act of doubling is among the work's central conceits; contending not only with issues of material and visual replication, but also with the duplicative nature of film itself.

His practice has addressed an impressive range of issues and ideas: the tenets of realism and transparency, abstraction and representation, optics and description, personal and cultural memory, and the material and chemical nature of photography.

Like Richard Shilling's use of twigs and leaves to remind us of the simple beauty of nature or the guns Sonia Rentsch forms with flower buds, nuts and sticks to raise the issue of environmental degradation and violence, Yulia Brodskaya utilizes paper — perhaps the most basic art material available — and a technique called «quilling» that involves twisting and folding strips of paper in such a way that she forces the viewer to not only appreciate her finished work, but also reconsider how we look at the raw materials she's using.

The rubber band causes it to get pretty damp with sweat under there during a workout, but that's an issue with the nature of the material rather than the device itself.

Children of America, Okolona, MS, 8/2010 to 2/2012 Junior Camp Counselor • Ascertained that all camp sites were cleaned and free of hazardous materials • Assisted in setting up and tearing down camping activities • Handled the logistics of summer camps such as coordinating activities including nature walks, hikes, treks and arts and crafts • Supervised camp members during camping activities and ensured that any behavioral issues were addressed immediately • Assisted in creating and maintaining member records and logs including attendance and progress reports