Sentences with phrase «materials like»

Duan pointed out that the same porous scaffold design they used with niobia could be used with other active materials like silicon or tin oxide, which boast high energy density, the ability to store lots of ions for longer - lasting batteries.

Other labs have experimented with building electrodes solely from materials like niobia in super-thin sheets weighing almost nothing.

Urban heat islands are the result of replacing the natural landscape, such as vegetation and waterways, with heat - absorbing materials like concrete or asphalt.

Dr Masayuki Ono, Project Leader of the National Spherical Torus Experiment - Upgrade at Prince Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), USA, told Materials World, «Even high temperature materials like tungsten could not withstand such intense power.

But optimizing energy production depends on understanding and perfecting the use of catalysts, which cause chemical reactions that break down the molecules of raw materials like oil to create fuel such as gasoline.

As we spread further out into the solar system, we will need materials like metallic glass to be able to construct equipment that can survive frigid environments.

3D printing excels at creating intricately detailed 3D structures, typically from inert materials like plastic or metal.

The solid products can be used in various applications including building materials like bricks and pavers, according to Mineral Carbonation International, the organization behind the process.

Applications for this research demonstrate implications for use in materials like abrasion resistant paints, high surface area catalyst, electron tunneling barriers, ultra-violet adsorption or capture in sunscreens or solar cells and even beyond when core - shell nanoparticles are used as buildings blocks for making new artificial nanostructured solids with unprecedented properties.

As the slab plunges yet deeper, dehydration reactions release water, which at such great pressure and temperature exists as a supercritical fluid that can drift through materials like a gas and dissolve them like a fluid.

Materials like this can be used for fuel cell electrodes, with far lower costs than the current ones.

The results closely mimic the intricate architecture of natural materials like wood and bone.

Materials like molybdenum sulfide are used as catalysts in chemical reactions.

Experimentalists are working with other exciting materials like quantum dots and dyes, while novel designs are getting ever harder to manufacture

Parviz's research involves embedding nanoscale and microscale electronic devices in materials like paper or plastic.

For instance, autonomous vehicles could eventually prevent tens of thousands of road deaths; optogenetics — using genetic engineering and light to manipulate brain cell activity — could help cure or manage debilitating neurological diseases; and materials like graphene could ensure more people than ever have access to cheap clean water.

Beneath the blue and white company livery, the A350's airframe is composed of 72 percent lightweight materials like aluminum and titanium alloys.

To understand these shifting sands, Josef Dufek at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and his colleagues placed grains of organic materials like those on Titan's surface in a chamber that simulated conditions there.

Scott Lefeber of Boeing's 787 communications team said in an email that for the fuel advantage in the Dreamliner, 3 percent comes from materials like composites, 3 percent from systems, 3 percent from improved aerodynamics and 8 percent from better engines.

The group led by Martín Olazar, researcher in the UPV / EHU - University of the Basque Country's Department of Chemical Engineering, is studying the development of sustainable refineries where it is possible to produce fuels and raw materials providing an alternative to petroleum by using biomass and other waste materials like plastics, tires, etc..

In a study scheduled to appear this week in the journal Physical Review Letters, they report that materials like soil and sand actually get stronger when they are struck harder.

Made entirely of organic materials like chitin, it is both extremely rigid at its tip, yet soft and supple at its base.

High - temperature superconductors are exotic mixes of materials like yttrium or bismuth that, when chilled to around 180 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero -LRB--280 ºF), lose all resistance to electricity, whereas low - temperature superconductors must be chilled to several degrees above absolute zero.

Especially, since current semiconductor growth technologies are capable of engineering the energy levels of the valleys and the strength of spin - orbit coupling, e.g. by substituting Ga or As with other materials like Aluminum.

This crucial insight was provided by a team of researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, who suggested that graduated materials like the beak could find broad use in medicine and biotechnology.

The investigators also used other materials like sand and small glass spheres.

Streams of dying fish running through forests of dead trees are just the beginning: Acid rain also causes the corrosion of building materials like limestone and marble.

People are trying to use new materials like plastics and nanoparticles.

«This is the first demonstration of quasiparticle imaging and tunneling spectroscopy at individual impurity atoms in complex materials like the cuprate - oxides,» Davis adds.

«We're going to make this material much more active by integrating smart materials like microchips that are controllable.

The company also advises other firms on how to develop packaging made from bioplastics — materials derived from renewable and biodegradable plant - based materials like corn starch.

During this time, it was necessary to deal with aerothermodynamics, new materials like fibre - reinforced ceramics and high - temperature resistant metals, static and dynamic structure analysis, thermal analysis, quality assurance, and management.

Asphalt Earth In the 1960s Esso Oil (now part of Exxon Mobil) proposed that coating the earth with black paving materials like asphalt would increase air temperature enough to spur formation of cumulus clouds and encourage rain.

Sirofloc treatment begins after materials like plastics and paper, as well as fibres and smaller particles, have been removed from the raw sewage by fine rotating screens (see Diagram).

Smoke and dust clouds from Ground Zero carried thousands of tons of caustic dust, as corrosive as drain cleaner, laced with powdered building materials like glass, gypsum, and asbestos.

«What we have shown is that nanoparticles of inorganic materials, just like the organic materials like early amino acids, can not only self - assemble, but can do so in a way that exhibits chirality,» said Nicholas Kotov, the Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Engineering and a professor of chemical engineering, materials science and engineering and molecular science and engineering at U-M.

Now, they say that scientists have reason to trust the resistive force theory to give accurate force estimates through sand, and even pastier materials like mud and gels.

Fallout is a mélange of the vaporized environment — soil and structures that were near the blast — laced with fission products (radioisotopes created when fissile materials like uranium or plutonium fission), activation products (radioisotopes formed when the blast radiation transmutes shielding and other bomb components), and residual nuclear material.

«For example, this approach excels in figuring out which material or interface property might be limiting performance, even for complex stacks of materials like batteries, thermoelectric devices, or composites used in tennis shoes or airplane wings.»

The latest frontier in this search for cancer telltales is the cellular process of endocytosis, which is the way cells take outside materials like proteins inside.

To overcome this obstacle, chipmakers had to determine how to replace silicon dioxide with so - called high - k materials like hafnium and zirconium.

Fine - tuning becomes critically important as materials scientists test more 2 - D materials like graphene and nanotubes for use as electrodes.

Replacing concrete walls with softer, greener materials like logs, or replenishing armored beaches manually with truckloads of sand and gravel are options to lessen the impacts.

The potential is relatively easy to draw for materials like conductors that have an orderly atomic structure, but it's very difficult to calculate in materials with highly irregular atomic structures.

Andrews says the team's research marks an important turning point in the field because it represents a significant advance toward solving the cathode problem while also highlighting the inherent advantages of using much more imaginative, metastable materials like this new form of vanadium pentoxide.

They are currently applying the method to amorphous materials like glass.

Other radio frequencies offer better options in the event of an emergency: at lower frequencies, radio signals can propagate through conductive materials like cables, pipes, power lines and wires.

«This work shows that carefully designed chemical compounds can help us figure out how natural systems use plentiful raw materials like the nitrogen in our atmosphere,» Holland said.

While AutoSaw is still a research platform, in the future the team plans to use materials like wood, and integrate complex tasks like drilling and gluing.

This process, called multiple exciton generation (MEG), has so far worked only in toxic materials like lead.