Sentences with phrase «making nanoscale»

The interaction between the mineral crystals and the proteins yields an eggshell that's initially crack - resistant, while making nanoscale adjustments over time that ultimately let a chick peck its way out, researchers report online March 30 in Science Advances.

Ultimately, the hope is to use such boxes for drug delivery, and to exploit the folding and unfolding of biomolecules to make nanoscale computer components.

The new study builds on a technique developed in 2013 by Sleiman's research group to make nanoscale «cages» from strands of DNA, and stuff them with lipid - like polymer chains that fold together into a ball - shaped particle that can contain cargo such as drug molecules.

«Our approach is one of the first to make nanoscale material of high surface area that can be commercially relevant for catalysis.»

OIST researchers have made a nanoscale construction kit comprised of molecular «bricks» and «scaffolding», inspired by the way the extracellular matrix is built around living cells.

Before coming to Whitehead, in fact, Lindquist and her collaborators at the University of Chicago exploited the strength of these protein - protein connections to make nanoscale wires of gold and silver a thousandth the thickness of a human hair that successfully conducted electricity.

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The notable exception was quite frankly in the Capital district and Nanoscale where the state made a significant contribution and with some real talent from Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, literally generated an entire industry, but it shows what the state could do when the state invested but the state, besides the Capital district in many ways forgot the rest of upstate New York and we said we were going to change that and reverse it and we did and it is already paying dividends and we want to do it again and we want to start it with taxes.

Many believe that the state university's new College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering might make use of the land some day, and the state is holding it in abeyance.

As of 2014, Kaloyeros was making $ 801,700 annually at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at the University at Albany, according to payroll history from the state Comptroller's Office.

Obama made one more visit to the region on May 8, 2012, making a speech at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, using the school as a backdrop to offer an election - year vision of the economy.

Nanoscale glitches let flowers make a blue blur that bees can see.

Nanoscale entities made of DNA that can perform the same logic operations as a silicon - based computer have been introduced into a living animal.

«Art advancing science at the nanoscale: What happens when two scientists set out to make a movie to entertain the public?

«By allowing us to grow structures much faster with a broad range of precursors, this technique really opens up a whole new direction for making a hierarchy of complex three - dimensional structures with nanoscale resolution at the rate that is demanded for manufacturing scalability,» said Andrei Fedorov, a professor in the George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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.

Dagmar Beck, who oversees four PSM programs at Rice University in Houston, Texas, says she has information on all but one of the 75 students who have graduated since the programs in nanoscale physics, subsurface geoscience, and environmental analysis and decision - making were established in 2002.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a method for creating «nano - volcanoes» by shining various colors of light through a nanoscale «crystal ball» made of a synthetic polymer.

Despite years of research by scientists around the world, the extraordinarily small size of matter at the nanoscale has made it challenging to learn how motion works at this scale.

While nanowriting could generate some interest among spies, Kubiak believes its real value will be in making numerous nanoscale electronic devices in a highly reproducible fashion.

The imaging technique's high resolution of soft nanoscale structures makes it possible to probe collagen samples, providing insights for improved designs of artificial skin or tissue.

«What SLIM is very good at is to make invisible objects visible with nanoscale sensitivity,» said Popescu.

NVs in the same respective locations of their crystal units and so close to the surface, the group could conduct nanoscale NMR detection of the fluorine in oil making contact with the substrate.

Like human - made motors, the structure of these nanoscale machines determines their power and the bacteria's swimming ability.

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.»

Molecules are delivered from the AFM tip to a solid substrate of interest via capillary transport, making DPN a potentially useful tool for creating and functionalizing nanoscale devices.

In March his team published a «proof of concept» for an optical metadevice made of nanoscale elements etched in gold films, which are then connected to microscopic strings.

«Physicists make quantum leap in understanding life's nanoscale machinery.»

BORROWING a trick from the office photocopier may make it possible for a nanoscale printer to precisely manipulate biological cells for use in artificial tissue.

Epps is also leading an effort to do nanoscale patterning with block polymers as a low - cost alternative to lithographic approaches currently used to make electronic devices.

You've also been designing hinges made of graphene, which would be a necessary part of any kind of nanoscale machine.

In the nanoscale world, rods, spheres and dots made from the same material have dramatically different chemical and physical properties.

The vibrating nanoscale drumheads developed by Feng and his team are made of atomic layers of semiconductor crystals (single -, bi -, tri -, and four - layer MoS2 flakes, with thickness of 0.7, 1.4, 2.1, and 2.8 nanometers), with diameters only about 1 micron.

«We have been developing the expertise required to grow intricate core / shell and other well defined nanoparticles for many years,» Vela said, «Through our collaboration with Emily Smith's group, we hope to continue making inroads in our ability to manipulate and direct energy flows at the nanoscale.»

«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.

Two years ago, an international team of researchers showed that by manipulating electron spin at a quantum magnetic tunneling junction — a nanoscale sandwich made of two metal electrodes with an insulator in the middle — they could induce a large increase in the junction's capacitance.

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

You could imagine machines made of natural molecules that could swim through the blood, exploiting their memory storage and computing power to battle bad molecules on the nanoscale.

«In essence,» said co-author Darren W. Johnson, a professor of chemistry, «we can prepare one type of nanoscale cluster compound, and then step - by - step substitute out the individual metal atoms to make new clusters that can not be made by direct methods.

He says, «Here we pre-formed structures at nanoscale so they will form a known structure assembled at the meso scale, from which you can make a device.

The researchers relied on a technique developed at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a research facility for nanoscale science, to image the individual molecules that make up these structures.

As the structures are so tiny — each grain is only about the size of a virus — there is only one method with which the nanovortices can directly be observed while they are heated up and cooled down: «A special high - resolution electron microscope at the Ernst Ruska - Centre (ER - C) in Jülich is capable of making magnetic fields on the nanoscale holographically visible,» explains Almeida.

But cars on the nanoscale behave nothing like their real - life counterparts, making it hard to find uses for the machines.

Researchers have invented a new trick for making electrical devices from nanoscale wires ¿ blowing bubbles.

Recent efforts have led to a variety of powerful man - made micro / nanoscale machines, with advanced motion control and new functions, that are capable of performing different tasks.

Already used in fiber optic communications, the field of applied photonics is making steady progress in developing optical circuits, which use nanoscale «optical cavities» as switches or «transistors» for controlling the flow of light.

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.

THE shimmering sea mouse, Aphrodita aculeata, may hold a key to creating nanoscale electronics, making it possible to produce nanowires 100 times longer than existing methods allow — and for a fraction of the price.

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.

«Our approach makes it possible to draw nanoscale electrically - conductive features in atomically - thin insulating sheets with the highest spatial control reported so far,» said Mativetsky.