«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.
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..
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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 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.