Sentences with word «macroscale»

Nanostructuration of materials is a key - issue to tailor and tune their properties at macroscale with a lot of applications in electronic, energy, spintronic, etc..

Resume: Nanostructuration of materials is a key - issue to tailor and tune their properties at macroscale with a lot of applications in electronic, energy, spintronic, etc..

She has also made considerable progress in the ability to make macroscale predictions of stress - strain response.

m. Perhaps more impressively, with a photomask printed using a common office laser printer, they were able to print scaffolds with macroscale features nearly identical to the mask.

«Despite the clear importance of this time frame, we presently possess very little understanding of how functional macroscale neural networks build during this precious time in human life, or the relevance of this to future human health and development.»

Understanding how carbon nanotubes (CNT) nucleate, grow and self - organize to form macroscale materials is critical...

Abatzoglou, J. T. & Kolden, C. A. Relationships between climate and macroscale area burned in the western United States.

«Their ability to build living 3D vascularized tissues from the bottom - up provides a potential way to form macroscale functional tissue replacements that can be surgically connected to the body's own blood vessels to provide immediate perfusion of these artificial tissues, and thus, greatly increase their likelihood of survival.

They are the first to use the specific combination — which they termed «macroscale multimodal chemical imaging» — to examine an ancient work of art.

Nano - to macroscale remodeling of functional tissue - engineered bone.

Nuisance heating is a recurring theme in nanotechnology where resonances and low - dimensional features can exacerbate milder macroscale effects.

Nevertheless, both parties agree that eventually the microscale and macroscale approaches will converge as one enormous data set, hopefully with the different layers of complexity informing each other.

The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology referred to the particular technological goal of precisely manipulating atoms and molecules for fabrication of macroscale products, also now referred to as molecular nanotechnology.

Once you get into a more macroscale with thousands of employees, it takes a majority of them acting like this in order to boost the company's profits.

Scientists now recognize that macroscale behaviors, such as plate tectonics and mantle convection, arise from the microscale properties of Earth materials, including the smallest details of their atomic structures.

To address these challenges, the Molecular and Nanoscale Interfaces Project aims to couple light absorbers, catalysts, and half - reactions for optimal control of the rate, yield, and energetics of electron and proton flow at the nanoscale, so that complete macroscale artificial photosynthetic systems can achieve maximum conversion of solar photon energy into the chemical energy of a fuel.

The porous structures called schwarzites are designed with computer algorithms, but Rice researchers found they could send data from the programs to printers and make macroscale, polymer models for testing.

Extending the concept to macroscale materials made sense, Tour said.

«This is a groundbreaking advance in the 3 - D architecturing of materials at nano - to macroscales with applications in batteries, lightweight ultrastrong materials, catalytic converters, supercapacitors and biological scaffolds,» said Rahul Panat, associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, who led the research.

MIT roboticist Daniela Rus has created a macroscale prototype for such devices.

«At the macroscale, everything can easily be patterned in three dimensions,» lead researcher David Gracias at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, Maryland, told New Scientist.

«We made a macroscale version of this system, at the scale of several millimeters, to see if it worked,» Shepard notes.

Even though the constituent materials generally have poor intrinsic properties, the superior extrinsic properties of the hybrid materials are the result of the arrangement of hard and soft phases in complex hierarchical architectures, with dimensions spanning from the nanoscale to the macroscale.

In reality, the macroscale data from the National Weather Service were not translating into dangerous circulations.

Natural materials, such as trabecular bone and the toes of geckoes, have evolved with multiple levels 3 - D architectures spanning from the nanoscale to the macroscale.

However, when millions of them join up they can work in a completely coordinated way, and their action can have an effect at the macroscale.

Living systems have the ability to produce collective molecular motions that have an effect at the macroscale, such as a muscle that contracts via the concerted action of protein motors.

For the first time, they succeeded in getting the motors to work in a coordinated and continuous manner, right up to the macroscale: as soon as the motors are activated by light they twist the polymer chains in the gel, which makes it contract.

«We can control the shape of the structure itself, what we call the macroscale features; and the design of the catalyst, the nanoscale features, at the same time,» said Igor Slowing, a scientist in heterogeneous catalysis at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory.

«Light doesn't typically like to be squeezed or manipulated but this metamaterial permits you to manipulate light from one chip to another, to squeeze, bend, twist and reduce diameter of a beam from the macroscale to the nanoscale,» said Mazur.

This macroscale piece of rebar graphene was formed into a screw shape.

He said the aim was to «have them interact in such a way that changes at a small size, or nanoscale, could lead to observed changes at a larger size, or macroscale.»

One critical factor in the development of such microbots is the effect of electrostatic and van der Waals forces between molecules that are prevalent on the scale of microns but not on the macroscale of everyday life.

«We don't really understand this at the macroscale yet,» Dufek says.

Made up of fewer atoms than their macroscale counterparts, each atom is that much more important to the component's overall structure and function.

On the macroscale, adding fluorine atoms to carbon - based materials makes for water - repellant, non-stick surfaces, such as Teflon.

As it turns out, when objects are extremely close together, heat flows not just as electromagnetic waves, but as evanescent waves — exponentially decaying waves that have little effect at the macroscale, as they typically die away before reaching another object.

«This is something that is routine on the macroscale, of course, but has eluded chemists, biologists and physicists at the nanoscale,» Gianneschi said.

The results reported in Advanced Materials are works of art that may someday lead to nanoscale electronic devices, catalysts, molecular sieves and battery components, and on the macroscale could become high - load - bearing, impact - resistant components for buildings, cars, and aircraft.

On the macroscale, the governments use silver as a safe haven currency, meaning that they invest in it and reap the interest from it.

Expert communities exhibit increased conflict on a microscale and relatively smaller bias on a macroscale, even in the absence of quality control mechanisms.