Sentences with phrase «materials chemist»

Now a group of materials chemists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by Dhandapani Venkataraman, with Ph.D. student and first author Seung Pyo Jeong, Ph.D. students Larry Renna, Connor Boyle and others, report that they have solved one of the major hurdles in the field by developing a polymer - based system.

A team of materials chemists, polymer scientists, device physicists and others at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report a breakthrough technique for controlling molecular assembly of nanoparticles over multiple length scales that should allow faster, cheaper, more ecologically friendly manufacture of organic photovoltaics and other electronic devices.

Six years ago, she was working in private industry in California while her India - born husband, polymer and material chemist Amitav Sanyal, 39, worked as a lecturer at California State University.

Liverpool Materials Chemist, Professor Matthew Rosseinsky, said: «When we try to fit materials together at the atomic scale, we are used to using the sizes of the atoms to decide which combinations of materials will «work» i.e. will produce a continuous well - ordered interface.

Material chemists in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have developed a superporous solid made up of a patchwork of metal ions and organic linkers (a metal - organic framework, or MOF) that can suck up to 200 % of its own weight in atmospheric moisture.

«It's the kind of work that you love to see in science,» says surface and materials chemist Greg Ferguson of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Searching for a better way to isolate metal titanium, a team led by materials chemists George Zheng Chen and Derek Fray of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom came up with an electrochemical technique, they report in the 21 September issue of Nature.

For the study, published today in Light: Science & Applications, the team of surgeons, engineers, physicists and material chemists designed and built the optical ultrasound technology to fit into existing single - use medical devices, such as a needle.

UK materials chemist David Evans has been working at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) for a decade.

When 40 - year - old materials chemist Angela Belcher was a child, she wanted to be an inventor.

Venkataraman credits organic materials chemist Gehan, with postdoctoral fellow and device physicist Monojit Bag, with making «crucial observations» and using «persistent detective work» to get past various roadblocks in the experiments.

Materials chemist Paul Lahti, co-director with Thomas Russell of UMass Amherst's Energy Frontiers Research Center (EFRC) supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, says, «One of the big implications of this work is that it goes well beyond organic photovoltaics or solar cells, where this advance is being applied right now.

But at the ACS meeting, Dioxide Materials chemist Richard Ni reported that devices using them produced CO with an efficiency nearly double that of the next best membrane.

«Each of you — tell someone not at the march why you came here,» said Suze Kundu, a materials chemist at the University of Surrey.

«You essentially [have] materials that you can abuse quite a bit without breaking down,» says Sarbajit Banerjee, a materials chemist at the University of Buffalo in New York.

Another group, led by Ji - Won Son, a materials chemist with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul, reported last year in Nature Communications that it got a similar result at the ideal operating temperature of 500 °C.

That had a lot of venture capital in it but few quick returns, and so investors went off and did other things,» cautions Nate Lewis, a materials chemist at Caltech who works on solar cells.

Leo Fifield, a materials chemist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, said that Kevlar is «like a net catching a ball.»

Materials chemists have been trying for years to make a new type of battery that can store solar or other light - sourced energy in chemical bonds rather than electrons, one that will release the energy on demand as heat instead of electricity — addressing the need for long - term, stable, efficient storage of solar power.

The materials chemists plan to follow up this discovery with work to solve some practical problems related to charging the system, so they have not made a battery yet, but that is coming.

A materials chemist and the head of the Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT, she has genetically engineered viruses to grow nanoscale structures that can be used in batteries, solar cells and other clean energy sources.

AMHERST, Mass. — Materials chemists have been trying for years to make a new type of battery that can store solar or other light - sourced energy in chemical bonds rather than electrons, one that will release the energy on demand as heat instead of electricity — addressing the need for long - term, stable, efficient storage of solar power.

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