Sentences with phrase «material researchers»

In organic materials researchers do this with a little help from quantum mechanics.

It was established in 2012 by Ian Hunter and Brad Turner, former materials researchers at Foster + Partners architects, and founding partner Architonic.

Using tiny amounts of material the researchers recovered and analyzed fragments of mitochondrial DNA — genetic material from the mitochondria, the «energy factories» of the cell — and identified them as belonging to twelve different mammalian families that include extinct species such as the woolly mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, the cave bear and the cave hyena.

In a new study published in Materials and Design, noted materials researcher Nikhil Gupta, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, his doctoral student Fei Chen and former student Gary Mac show how certain intentionally induced defects can disappear when the part is printed under a very specific set of conditions.

The award, which comes with a no - strings - attached $ 625,000 stipend paid out over five years, also went to black carbon and nano materials researchers

Drexel University materials researchers have created a material from MAX Phase etching that could be a good candidate for cathodes in Lithium - Sulfur batteries.

Their unique properties, such as their spherical shape, have long intrigued materials researchers.

The key is a complex new plastic material the researchers have developed, which changes its refractive index when illuminated by laser light.

«We haven't really paid much attention to how we can make the outside of steel capable of doing something other than looking good,» materials researcher Dave Worsley of Swansea University said in a statement.

Although materials researchers have made surfaces that borrow from the nanoscale design of gecko feet, the imitators» adhesive power fades after repeated attachment and removal (SN: 6/7/03, p. 356), and they don't work when wet.

Firefighters entering burning buildings, athletes competing in the broiling sun and workers in foundries may eventually be able to carry their own, lightweight cooling units with them, thanks to a nanowire array that cools, according to Penn State materials researchers.

To create a MR, material researchers need to switch off that bucket brigade in the presence of a magnetic field.

«This is a tremendous leap forward in membrane technology,» says materials researcher Christopher Striemer of the University of Rochester, part of a group that created the filters and has formed a start - up company to commercialize them.

UMass Amherst materials researchers recently proposed and validated a model of wrapped shapes used to encapsulate one fluid droplet within another.

«Using ultrathin sheets to discover new class of wrapped shapes: Materials researchers describe a new regime of wrapped shapes.»

Materials researchers Anja - Verena Mudring and Volodymyr Smetana were the first to create and accurately characterize the compound.

In Hemp Bound, Fine talks to a number of people that are actively working to research, test, lobby for, and even grow industrial hemp, ranging from Canadian hemp farmers, hemp materials researchers, biomass energy executives, hempcrete builders, politicians and lobbyists.

Materials researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that allows them to integrate graphene, graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) onto silicon substrates at room temperature by using nanosecond pulsed laser annealing.

Shiflett hired one of his colleagues from DuPont, David Corbin, a world expert in porous materials called zeolites, to provide guidance on the selection of materials the researchers are testing.

«These are possible foci for attacks that could have devastating impact on users of the end product, and economic impact in the form of recalls and lawsuits,» said Nikhil Gupta, noted materials researcher and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering.

To do this, the material researchers created textiles with optically conductive fibers woven into them.

Developing a reliable method to synthesize and manufacture 2 - D nanosheets from other materials has been a goal of materials researchers and the nanotechnology industry for years.

And in 2013, Chris Wolverton, a materials researcher at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, launched the Open Quantum Materials Database (OQMD).

By changing the size of particles, materials researchers may be able to engineer defects in a convenient and precise manner.

«The reason we do these tests at low altitudes or do a lot of takeoffs and landings is because bug accumulation occurs at anywhere from the ground to less than 1,000 feet,» said Mia Siochi, a materials researcher at NASA Langley.

The team still needs to improve the material's piezoelectric response, says Muhtar Arhart, a materials researcher at the Carnegie / Doe Alliance Center in Washington DC, not involved with the research.

Materials researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology initially came across the nano cage as a potentially powerful approach, and Mavrikakis» group used its quantum mechanical modeling expertise to synthesize cages with a tiny amount of platinum.

Noreen Thomas, a materials researcher at Loughborough University, UK, was one of the authors of a 2010 report for the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) on oxo - degradable plastics.

Materials researchers of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Switzerland have, in collaboration with the Université Grenoble Alpes (France), developed a method that could enable a breakthrough for the lithium - sulphur battery.

In the past three years, materials researchers have made huge strides towards building optoelectronic circuitry based on silicon.

However, it also possible to separate and manipulate a few connected layers of graphene giving a material researchers refer to as few - layer graphene (FLG).

But with the new coating, the underlying components could be made out of a material researchers call «silicon - carbide - based ceramic matrix composites,» or CMCs.

Materials with hierarchically organized pore systems — meaning that the walls of macropores with diameters in the micrometer range contain mesopores of just a few nanometers — are high on the wish lists of materials researchers.

First made available in 2000, before e-ink readers were more than a twinkle in some materials researcher's eye, the application was inten

First made available in 2000, before e-ink readers were more than a twinkle in some materials researcher's eye, the application was intended for the consumption of e-books on LCD screens, using Microsoft's ClearType font smoothing and a relatively compact, familiar format.

Any materials a researcher wishes to publish must be approved by the Whitney Museum.

A materials researcher examines experimental data on the ARES artificial intelligence planner.