Sentences with phrase «many nanomaterials»

«Hopefully we'll see products containing these nanomaterials in the market.»

At Battelle, Koper is studying the use of nanomaterials in membranes for water desalination and treatment; supercapacitors (energy - storage devices that provide higher power densities than batteries); and bio-based (rather than petroleum - based) additives used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve natural gas.

At the crest of this wave is Olga Koper, research leader at Columbus, Ohio's nonprofit Battelle Memorial Institute since May 2011 and holder of more than 30 U.S. and international patents for composition and applications of nanomaterials.

The structures of some nanomaterials bend and change shape when given an electrical jolt, so that a material's properties can be altered at the flip of a switch — it can change color, for example, or become transparent.

Currently, nanomaterials are being mixed with, or applied as a coating on, conventional materials to alter their properties.

SDC Materials in Tempe, Arizona, makes nanomaterials that can fend off bullets that punch through ordinary bulletproof vests.

Sourcing Framework for Food and Food Packaging Products Containing Nanomaterials is first - of - its - kind framework is designed to help food companies make informed decisions regarding sourcing products containing nanomaterials.

Dunkin' Brands shareholders also may vote on whether the company should tell its donut buyers they are consuming nanomaterials, in a new twist.

The laboratory will focus on developing «new nanomaterials and nanotechnologies for electric vehicles and energy storage that are safe, efficient and cost - effective.»

This will include Dr James Stern from Albis discussing plastics in healthcare applications, Professor Alexander Seifalian of The London BioScience Innovation Centre covering the development of medical devices using graphene nanomaterials and Lorna O'Gara from Ultrapolymers explaining polymer innovation in healthcare and inter-material replacement for flexible applications.

Nanomaterials used in packaging could leach into food and harm consumers, said Friends of the Earth campaigner Jeremy Tager.

Such a small proportion of nanomaterials are ones that we're actually watching carefully and regulating,» the nano - toxicologist said.

It pinpointed nanosilver in packaging boxes and nanomaterials in fresh produce bags as key examples of products appearing on the market.

«Nanomaterials are painted as all bad, but they're not.

The survey results, submitted to a Budget Estimates Committee in June, showed FSANZ was failing to protect consumers from risks linked with the use of nanomaterials in food packaging, Mr Tager said.

Nanomaterials are typically less than 100 nanometres, or 100,000 times less than the width of a human hair.

It was monitoring and conducting its own research into nanomaterials.

What happens when you excite novel assemblies of nanomaterials using structured light?

For several decades, nanomaterials — matter that is so small it is measured in nanometers (one nanometer = one - billionth of a meter) and can be manipulated at the atomic scale — have outperformed conventional materials in strength, conductivity and other key attributes.

NPS programs include engineering, acoustics, nanomaterials, sensor development, robotics, power and propulsion studies, oceanography, meteorology, and space systems; there's even a program focused on free electron lasers.

A Swansea University nanomaterials expert has been looking at how small gold particles survive when subjected to very high temperatures.

The spherical gold nanoparticles can be replaced with more complex shaped nanomaterials — such as hollow nanoparticles, nanorods, or nanotubes — to render a better absorption of near - infrared light to penetrate biological tissues.

Carbon nanomaterials such as fullerenes, nanotubes, and graphene have outstanding physical properties associated with their low dimensionality and graphite - like chemical bonding.

Second, a cognitive psychology approach is needed to conduct basic science research on the mental representations and operations that may be uniquely challenged in the investigation of nanomaterials.»

Researchers use the large - scale facilities at DESY to explore the microcosm in all its variety — ranging from the interaction of tiny elementary particles to the behaviour of innovative nanomaterials and the vital processes that take place between biomolecules to the great mysteries of the universe.

We conclude with current explorations in imaging of nanomaterials and biostructures and an outlook on possible future directions in space - time, 4D electron microscopy.

An international research collaboration led by Drexel's Yury Gogotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering and director of its Nanomaterials Research Group, has created a two - dimensional carbon / sulfur nanolaminate that could be a viable candidate for use as a lithium - sulfur cathode.

The absorbance and scattering of light is determined by the size, shape and material of the nanomaterial and, more importantly, it is also affected by any medium in close proximity to the nanomushroom, such as cells that have been placed on the slide.

So, researchers have been searching for ways of using these nanomaterials to add great strength to composite materials, much the way steel bars are used to reinforce concrete.

The carbon / sulfur nanolaminates synthesized by Gogotsi's group demonstrate the same uniformity as the infiltrated carbon nanomaterials, but the sulfur in the nanolaminates is uniformly deposited in the carbon matrix as atomically thin layers and a strong covalent bonding between carbon and sulfur is observed.

Webster has been studying the possibility of growing tissue around nanomaterials since 1998 when he was a graduate student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Nanoscale materials are increasing growth in all of these tissue types,» he says.

Based on that suggestion, the ORNL team hypothesized that it should be possible to measure a nanomaterial's temperature using an electron microscope with an electron beam that is «monochromated» or filtered to select energies within a narrow range.

A research group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

«The key is getting the nanomaterials to mimic the roughness of the natural tissue, which creates more surface energy and allows for the absorption of proteins important for the tissue to function.»

Materials science Hot fields include semiconductors and nanomaterials development, but don't forget about the synthesis of plastics, paints and lubricants.

«We discovered surprising and never - before - seen evolution and degradation patterns in two key battery materials,» said Huolin Xin, a materials scientist at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) and coauthor on both studies.

So far, the Georgia Tech team has produced structures of silver and carbon, but the process could be used to fabricate a wide range of metallic and non-metallic nanomaterials.

It's very difficult to detect these nanomaterials in the environment since the concentrations are so low and the particles so small.

Heat flow in novel nanomaterials could help in creating environmentally friendly and cost - effective nanometric - scale energy devices.

This nanomaterial sports a range of properties including ultrastrength, transparency (because of its thinness) and blisteringly fast electron conductivity that make it promising for flexible displays and superspeedy electronics.

The project team is simulating these processes in petri dishes in order to understand how nanomaterials are transported across these barriers.

Now the partners in the NanoUmwelt project have developed a method that is capable of identifying even minute amounts of nanomaterials in environmental samples.

Other studies suggest that copper nanomaterials are toxic to rats.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

To gain this new understanding into the behavior of matter at the nanoscale, García - Garibay's research group designed three rotating nanomaterials known as MOFs, or metal - organic frameworks, which they call UCLA - R1, UCLA - R2 and UCLA - R3 (the «r» stands for rotor).

It is still unclear what the impact is on humans, animals and plants of synthetic nanomaterials released into the environment or used in products.

Furgeson and his colleagues said that zebrafish could be used to identify «nanomaterial characteristics that afford minimal or no toxicity and guide more rational designs of materials on the nanoscale.»

But that rule gets flipped around in oddball nanomaterials with a negative index of refraction.

(Currently, labels on products for sale in the U.S. are not required to disclose the presence of nanomaterials.

This allows us to detect the real amounts and forms of the nanomaterials in the environment,» explains Kohl.