«Our approach is one of the first to
make nanoscale material of high surface area that can be commercially relevant for catalysis.»
Not exact matches
Nanoscale resolution
makes it possible to characterize the local temperature during phase transitions in
materials — an impossibility with techniques that do not have the spatial resolution of HERMES spectroscopy.
A method for slowing down crystal growth could
make it possible to build customisable
nanoscale structures useful in water purifiers and cloaking
materials
«The next step will be investigation of the spin - phonon interaction in
nanoscale thin films and structures
made of this important antiferromagnetic
material.»
In the
nanoscale world, rods, spheres and dots
made from the same
material have dramatically different chemical and physical properties.
«We were
making small, easily synthesized, programmable molecules» — molecules designed and synthesized with parts that control their behavior — «which assembled on the
nanoscale into highly functional
materials,» Smith says.
Crystal seen growing in slow motion one atom at a time A method for slowing down crystal growth could
make it possible to build customisable
nanoscale structures useful in water purifiers and cloaking
materials
Nanoscale computer parts, such as processors, are difficult to manufacture this way because of the challenges of combining electronic components with others
made from multiple different
materials.
By blasting lasers at a
material made up of thousands of
nanoscale plastic pillars covered with a thin layer of the element germanium, Kristensen has printed some of the highest resolution images ever
made.
The sensor is
made of a plastic
material embedded with tiny particles of nickel with
nanoscale spikes protruding from their surface.
«We would love to be able to observe crystallization processes or to watch a
material made of
nanoscale components anneal or undergo a phase transition,» she says.
Their
nanoscale size
make them ideal
nanoscale voltage sensing
materials for interfacing with neurons and other electrically active cells for voltage sensing.»
Why It Matters: Understanding how cycling affects the
nanoscale distribution of elements that
make up Li - ion battery cathodes is a critical step toward developing next - generation cathode
materials to achieve the highest battery performance.
In
making their award, the Kavli Nanoscience Prize committee has selected a scientist whose work, over more than five decades, has improved understanding of how and why the thermal, electrical, and other characteristics of
materials structured at the
nanoscale can be dramatically different from those of the same
materials at larger dimensions.
Over more than five decades, Dresselhaus has
made multiple advances in helping to explain why the properties of
materials structured at the
nanoscale can vary so much from those of the same
materials at larger dimensions.
To
make skyrmion bubbles, researchers crafted a setup
made out of tiny, precise, layered structures
made using a process called lithography at the Center for
Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science user facility at Argonne.
These investments,
made under the auspices of the NNI, have enabled groundbreaking discoveries that have revolutionized science; established world - class facilities for the characterization of
nanoscale materials and their fabrication into
nanoscale devices; educated tens of thousands of individuals from undergraduate students to postdoctoral researchers; and fostered the responsible incorporation of nanotechnology into commercial products.
«We're taking low - cost, inkjet - printed graphene and tuning it with a laser to
make functional
materials,» said Jonathan Claussen, an Iowa State University assistant professor of mechanical engineering, an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and the corresponding author of the paper recently featured on the cover of the journal
Nanoscale.
Nanoscale manipulation is also
making it possible to combine artificial structures with biochemicals and inorganic
materials to create new
materials with unusual and desirable properties.
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Brown University have found that
nanoscale wires (nanowires)
made of common semiconductor
materials have a pronounced anelasticity — meaning that the wires, when bent, return slowly to their original shape rather than snapping back quickly.
He is a member of the university's interdisciplinary
Nanoscale Materials and Device Research Group, where his team engineers biomolecular tools
made from DNA.