Sentences with phrase «materials at»

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Her fundamental investigations have aimed to control the synthesis of nanoparticles and nanostructured thin films; as well as, to apply microstructural characterisation techniques for the study of nanostructured materials at the nano - scale.

Today, scientists are beginning to study combinations of various materials at the nanolevel instead of as separate nanoparticles (fullerenes and nanotubes).

Researchers are welcome to take digital photographs of materials at no charge.

COSMIC, a next - generation X-ray beamline now operating at Berkeley Lab, brings together a unique set of capabilities to measure the properties of materials at the nanoscale.

NASA and Berkeley Lab researchers have teamed up to explore next - generation spacecraft materials at the microscale using an X-ray technique that produces 3 - D images.

INL has also supported advanced analytical methods for prediction of the behavior of solid - state materials at the operating conditions of SOECs, including atomistic modeling methods [3].

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.

The company's ISO 9001:2008 - certified facility in Albany is already producing advanced carbon materials at a multi-ton scale and is supplying commercial quantities to a growing, global customer base.

Powerful electron microscopes have been used for decades to probe materials at atomic - scale; and right next door to the Molecular Foundry is Berkeley Lab's National Center for Electron Microscopy, which houses the most powerful microscopes in the world.

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.

The Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory is a premier user facility providing expertise, instruments, and infrastructure for interdisciplinary nanoscience and nanotechnology research.

She received training in the safe use of radioactive materials at the Radiation Safety Office at WSU Pullman and said her experiments involve the smallest amount of radioactivity possible to get research results for publication.

«The SHERLOC instrument is a valuable opportunity to prepare for human spaceflight as well as to perform fundamental scientific investigations of the Martian surface,» said Marc Fries, a SHERLOC co-investigator and curator of extraterrestrial materials at Johnson Space Center.

«To give you an idea, experimentalists are usually able to focus on one of these materials at a time.

The study received support from the Cornell Center for Materials Research and the Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis and Discovery of Interface Materials at Cornell, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Science Foundation and the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology.

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks and primitive materials at the University of Chicago.

I am an experimentalist, and I use ultrahigh - resolution ion - and electron - microscopy techniques, including focused - ion - beam scanning - electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy, to determine the composition and structure of these materials at scales ranging from millimeters down to the atomic.

SUBSTANCES IN SOLUTION AND SOLID MATERIALS: Two young researchers from University of Copenhagen have received funding - DKK 10 million each - to build up research groups to study the relationship between the structure of materials at the nano - scale and their properties.

This research was funded by the Singapore Maritime Institute, the US Department of Energy, the Office of Naval Research, the US Department of Defense, the Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials at Erlangen University, and the Interdisciplinary Center for Functional Particle Systems.

Thanks to the high spatial resolution x-ray tridimensional characterisations that are possible at the ESRF, researchers can investigate multiphase materials at the nanoscale.

In the 478th Brookhaven Lecture DarÃo Arena explains the fundamentals of magnetic materials â $» including a concept called angular momentum, which can be illustrated by a balancing gyroscope â $» as well as researchers» tools and techniques for investigating these materials at BNL's National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS).

Researchers studying the behavior of nanoscale materials at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have uncovered remarkable behavior that could advance microprocessors beyond today's silicon - based chips.

Using scanning transmission electron microscopy combined with spectroscopy, researchers at UIC were able to measure the temperature of several two - dimensional materials at the atomic level, paving the way for much smaller and faster microprocessors.

«In addition, many bridges in Switzerland are already more than 50 years old, which makes corrosion increasingly problematic for Switzerland's infrastructure,» explains Bernhard Elsener, professor at the Institute for Building Materials at ETH Zurich.

Group leader Eric Stach discusses the electron microscopy instrumentation and techniques that his group uses to study the structure and chemistry of materials at the atomic scale.

«Measuring the temperature of two - dimensional materials at the atomic level.»

«This is a groundbreaking advance in the 3 - D architecturing of materials at nano - to macroscales with applications in batteries, lightweight ultrastrong materials, catalytic converters, supercapacitors and biological scaffolds,» said Rahul Panat, associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, who led the research.

The clip was developed as a collaboration between the Division of Mechanics and Physics of Materials at the Kobe University Graduate School of Engineering and the Division of Hepato - Biliary - Pancreatic Surgery at the Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine.

One potential roadblock is the instability of certain materials at high temperatures.

But the interaction of the two materials at their interface creates an internal magnetic field that aligns all the atoms in the nickel iron layers.

Gilbert B. Chapman is a Senior Manager of Advanced Materials at Liberty and Technical Affairs, DaimlerChrysler Corp..

The researchers characterized the materials at the National Center for Electron Microscopy at the Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Berkeley Lab.

Next the researchers hope to test the materials at a planned city water purification plant in Albuquerque, N.M., as well as in smaller water systems in rural communities.

Ironically, the new molecular wires aren't made with magnetic materials at all.

Now scientists are tweaking solar cell materials at nanometer scales to squeeze out better performance without increasing their prices or complexity, finding loopholes through the SQ limit.

«The two - step process reported in this paper achieves exceptionally high strength, much beyond what [is] reported in the literature,» said Zhigang Suo, a professor of mechanics and materials at Harvard University, also not involved with the study.

In a publication presented in RSC Advances, researchers from the division of Nanotechnology and Functional Materials at Uppsala University in collaboration with researchers from Stockholm University for the first time show that it is possible to tailor the pore structure of a mesoporous material, Upsalite ®, without using organic templates or swelling agents, and instead by merely controlling the energy input in the production process.

The compounds were synthesized by Marianne Koepf at the laboratory of the research group for Synthesis and Characterization of Innovative Materials at the TUM.

Welland helped to draw up the council's strategy for SPM with John Pethica of the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford.

She works at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials at the University of Groningen.

Scientists studying these materials at Brookhaven and elsewhere have discovered special types of electronic states, such as «charge density waves,» where charges huddle to form stripes, and checkerboard patterns of charge.

«Our composite materials at room temperature have one material that is soft but can be programmed to contain internal stress, while the other material is stiff,» said Zhen Ding, a postdoc researcher at Singapore University of Technology and Design.

«I was overcome by the giggle factor,» says Rodney Andrews, associate director in carbon materials at the University of Kentucky's Center for Applied Energy Research, as he recalls talking to Edwards two years ago.

A team led by Tom Scott, a reader in nuclear materials at the University of Bristol, has found a way to do just that.

Now, the group led by Raffaele Mezzenga, Professor of Soft Materials at ETH Zurich, is working to eliminate this restriction.

The Natron Energy researchers studied the battery materials at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a nanoscience center, and then offered up some sample battery cells for study at the ALS.

Additional coauthors include Columbia professor James Hone, Columbia graduate students Carlos Forsythe and Lei Wang; Nikolaos Tombros, a former member of the Kim lab at Columbia, now at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands; Kenji Watanabe, chief researchers in optoelectronic materials at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan; and Takashi Taniguchi, group leader in the Ultra-high Pressure Processes Group at NIMS.

Focusing the entire visible spectrum and white light — combination of all the colors of the spectrum — is so challenging because each wavelength moves through materials at different speeds.

Co-author Professor Angus Kirkland, from the Department of Materials at Oxford University and Science Director at the new electron Physical Science Imaging Centre (ePSIC) at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, described the breakthrough as an exemplar of how Oxford is able to respond to key academic and industrial problems by using interdisciplinary resources and expertise.