Sentences with phrase «makes nanostructured»

Hills, a Florida - based company, has just made a significant breakthrough with the creation of a machine that makes nanostructured fibers.

It is this extreme sensitivity to local moisture that makes the nanostructure so interesting for use in «touchless» - screens.

But making these nanostructures has remained a challenge.

«One of the things that make nanostructures interesting, is that the surface plays a larger role in defining the material's properties,» says Aloni.

Not exact matches

Giving steel a layered nanostructure similar to that of bone makes it more resilient to metal fatigue and could lead to safer structures

«Nanostructures made of previously impossible material: How do you combine different elements in a crystal?

Other times, colors are made by nanostructures that scatter light, a phenomenon called structural color.

«Neodymium iron boron nanoparticles are difficult to make because they are very reactive,» Hadjipanayis says, in addition to being hard to align within a given nanostructure.

The drawback, according to Wang, is that these nanostructures can be fragile, difficult to make reproducibly when scaled - up and poor in electrochemical stability, limiting their applicability.

Scientists aspire to build nanostructures that mimic the complexity and function of nature's proteins, but are made of durable and synthetic materials.

The presence of that protein makes calcium carbonate crystals form in a nanostructured pattern, rather than smooth and even crystal, study coauthor Marc McKee, a biomineralization researcher at McGill University in Montreal, and colleagues found.

«We believe this is the first example of 2D atomically thin nanostructures made from ionic materials,» says Peidong Yang, a chemist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and world authority on nanostructures, who first came up with the idea for this research some 20 years ago.

This, the team hopes, can be done by improving the water yield of human - made dew condensers that mimick the nanostructure on the beetle's back.

Fischer is developing new techniques for making graphene nanostructures that display unusual quantum properties that could make them useful in nano - scale electronic devices.

Using their computer models as a guide, the researchers found a variant of polyethylene commonly used in battery making that has a specific nanostructure that is opaque to visible light yet is transparent to infrared radiation, which could let body heat escape.

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

One, A123 Systems in Watertown, Mass., is a three - year - old firm that builds batteries that use electrodes made from nanostructured iron phosphates, an innovation developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), according to Whittingham.

The new alloy, which the team is in the process of patenting, is made of a dense powder of micron - scale grains of aluminum and one or more other metals arranged in a particular nanostructure.

Both cheap and readily available, these nanostructures could save hydrogen fuel producers billions of dollars, while making a green energy source even greener, the team says.

This approach allowed them to lithographically define oxide templates and fill them via epitaxy, in the end making nanowires, cross junctions, nanostructures containing constrictions and 3 - D stacked nanowires using the already established scaled processes of Si technology.

The IBM team fabricated single crystal nanostructures, such as nanowires, nanostructures containing constrictions, and cross junctions, as well as 3 - D stacked nanowires, made with so - called III - V materials.

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 water goes between the extremely hydrophilic nanostructures, making the nanograss glass act like a flat substrate.

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.

Although glass with the nanostructures appears opaque, tests showed that most of the scattered light makes its way through the glass.

A team at the California Institute of Technology, writing in the journal Science, made use of DNA nanostructures called seesaw gates to construct logic circuits analogous to those used in microprocessors.

Applications for this research demonstrate implications for use in materials like abrasion resistant paints, high surface area catalyst, electron tunneling barriers, ultra-violet adsorption or capture in sunscreens or solar cells and even beyond when core - shell nanoparticles are used as buildings blocks for making new artificial nanostructured solids with unprecedented properties.

Two different types of slippery surfaces infused with silicone oil as a lubricant were evaluated: a very thin, silica - based and nanostructured 2D coating applied layer - by - layer (i - LBL) and a thicker, matrix - like 3D coating made of the common polymer polydimethylsiloxane (i - PDMS).

He has made pioneering discoveries in plasmonic cloaking (caused by the interaction of light and metal nanostructures) and invisibility, optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas, non-reciprocal devices, and giant nonlinear response in optical metamaterials.

A novel nanostructured material based on tantalum oxide could make possible non-volatile crossbar array memories that store up to 162 gigabits in 3 - D memory stacks.

Eugene Mamontov's background in both basic and applied science has made him a valued partner for scientists who come to the Spallation Neutron Source at ORNL in search of a better understanding of the water dynamics in their research — projects as diverse as studying plant cellulose or analyzing nanostructured membranes for desalination.

The power of 4D - EM to image structural dynamics on the scale of a few hundred nanoseconds and allow the switching dynamics to be quantified makes a unique contribution to the study of nanostructures.

Professor Arne Skjeltorp, of the University of Oslo, and chairman of the Kavli Nanoscience Prize Committee, said that, while an award could have been made for Professor Dresselhaus» work in the field as a whole, members of the committee wanted to honor her for her specific advances in the study of phonons, electron - phonon interactions, and thermal transport in nanostructures.

In order to make these materials more competitive, scientists need to develop a better understanding of organic polymers» nanostructures.

Professor Arne Skjeltorp, of the University of Oslo, and chairman of the Kavli Nanoscience Prize Committee, said that, while an award could have been made for Professor Dresselhaus» work in the field as a whole, members of the committee wanted to honour her for her specific advances in the study of phonons, electron - phonon interactions and thermal transport in nanostructures.

Schüth talked about the progress made in controlling the properties of nanostructures for catalytic materials.

«We learnt from these nanostructures that nonclose - packed arrays should thus be employed to make photonic films with full colour tuneability.»