Sentences with phrase «materials science»

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA.

Vivek Shenoy, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science, has led an interdisciplinary research team to tackle this problem, authoring a pair of papers that were published in Biophysical Journal.

This research could impact not only the study of biological development, and how similar patterns form in nature, but materials science as well.

They've presented their results at invited talks, most recently the 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Tribology, and in peer - reviewed papers, including a recent Journal of Materials Science article.

«One of our tasks is to determine the exact sequence of steps for breaking apart water and CO2 into atoms and piecing them back together to form ethanol and oxygen,» says William Goddard (PhD» 65), the Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics, who led the Caltech team.

High - pressure synthesis (over 10 GPa) is not a commonly used method in the field of materials science, write the researchers in their study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Pasquali is chair of the Department of Chemistry and a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, of materials science and nanoengineering and of chemistry.

«As such, we have developed a process which — unlike other etching processes — does not damage the metals, and does not affect their stability,» emphasised Professor Rainer Adelung, head of the «Functional Nanomaterials» team at the Institute for Materials Science.

«While the silicon requires some very high temperatures and very fancy deposition techniques, the perovskite part is quite simple, and therein lies the advantage,» said Colin Bailie, another co-author and a graduate student in materials science and engineering at Stanford University.

Chad Mirkin, professor of materials science and engineering, chemistry, and medicine at Northwestern University, as well as director of Northwestern's International Institute of Nanotechnology.

These tools could also impact fields such as materials science, nanotechnology, biology and medicine.

Next Wave's Jim Austin notes that the limited data we have about this field indicate that materials science research is full of wonderful scientific opportunities and equally full of talented young scientists chasing a limited number of jobs.

«This is part of a series of work we have done in our lab on high - temperature dielectrics for use in capacitors,» said Qing Wang, professor of materials science and engineering, Penn State.

Six feet tall and slim with dark, black hair and a broad, joyful smile, Bandyopadhyay enjoys a plum job for a scientist in his early 40s, leading his own research group at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan.

«The idea that you can cast something like a plastic part with very high strength is a completely new development,» says materials science professor William Nix of Stanford University, an adviser to Liquidmetal Technologies, which is trying to commercialize the metal.

«It was extremely frustrating,» says Aspi Kolah, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and materials science at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing, who was stranded in his native India for 4.5 months while trying to convert his J - 1 visa to an H - 1B visa.

As the month goes on, we'll be exploring various materials science subdisciplines while working to gain a better understanding of the economics of materials science careers.

«Filters made with activated carbon granules have trouble cleaning air and water down to the low parts per million level,» says James Economy, head of the materials science department at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

The first is that old - style materials science is fading.

Chun - Chao Chen, a graduate student in the UCLA materials science and engineering department who is the paper's primary author, said using transparent and semi-transparent cells together increases the device's efficiency, and that the materials were processed at low temperatures, making them relatively easy to manufacture.

This work was done by the theoretical research group of Long - Qing Chen, Donald W. Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, professor of engineering science and mechanics, and mathematics, Penn State.

«If you looked at metal under a microscope you'd see that it is composed of millions of closely - packed grains,» says Yuntian Zhu, a professor of materials science and engineering at NC State and senior author of two papers on the new work.

Most fish have overlapping scales, said Steven Naleway a materials science and engineering Ph.D. student and co-author on the paper.

This «chiral magnetic effect» had long been predicted theoretically, but never observed definitively in a materials science laboratory at the time this work was done.

In a previous related study published in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, the same team of NTU scientists found that fish scale - derived collagen would induce human umbilical vein endothelial cells to express 2.5 times more of a specific type of collagen responsible for blood vessel formation, as compared to endothelial cells cultured on bovine collagen.

The multi - and interdisciplinary nature of materials science means that materials scientists are hard to count.

The field of materials science is vast, encompassing everything that's anything.

Kazuaki Sakoda of Japans Nanomaterials Laboratory at the National Institute for Materials Science notes that the «work clearly demonstrates that even Plancks law — the starting point of the era of quantum mechanics [used to predict these interactions]-- can be modified.»

Another observation: The nation imports the bulk of its materials science workers.

Researchers from IMDEA Nanoscience, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Madrid Institute of Materials Science (CSIC) and the University of the Basque Country describe in the journal Nature Physics this week how to create a powerful magnetic field using this new material.

There aren't many data, because a field such as materials science is hard to parse.

What is the job market in materials science really like?

Having long relied on materials found in nature, or modifications of those materials, materials science is working toward the goal of designing new materials from basic principles to fulfill particular needs.

We kick off the feature with an article on opportunities to train and work in materials science in Europe.

Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering at UT Dallas.

If you're considering investing years of time, gallons of sweat, and all of your expertise in preparing for a career in materials science, it's at least helpful to know that there are sound fundamentals.

Angela Belcher of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Southern and Western European Editor Babette Pain describes Europe's most important materials science companies and research institutes.

«Scientists are beginning to realise that primary cilia, which were once thought to be irrelevant are actually involved in a number of key biological processes,» explains co-author Professor Martin Knight from Queen Mary's School of Engineering and Materials Science and the Institute of Bioengineering.

A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), headed by Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST and Professor Boyoung Joung, M.D. of the Division of Cardiology at Severance Hospital of Yonsei University, has developed a self - powered artificial cardiac pacemaker that is operated semi-permanently by a flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator.

Examples have included careers in specific research disciplines (e.g., Materials Science Careers), career opportunities in industry, (Drug Discovery Careers), and career - transition profiles (Scientists in Public Relations).

«This was a totally unexpected finding,» said study principal investigator Junqiao Wu, a physicist at Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and a UC Berkeley professor of materials science and engineering.

«DFT lets us study materials directly from fundamental laws of physics, the results of which can be directly compared to experimental data,» said Chris Marianetti, a professor of materials science at Columbia University and coauthor of the study.

Phase transformations in crystalline materials are of primary fundamental interest and practical significance in a wide range of fields, including materials science, information storage and geological science.

In materials science, researchers rely on a similar phenomenon to study the structures of materials that will eventually be used in chemical catalysis, batteries, solar applications and more.

Because the new, smaller, devices are flexible and can be held in place with sutures, they also may have potential uses in or around the bladder, stomach, intestines, heart or other organs, according to co-principal investigator John A. Rogers, PhD, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois.

Graphene has been a hot topic in physics and materials science since its discovery five years ago.

The lead authors of the study are Hui Zhu and Qingxiao Wang, graduate students in materials science and engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.

The international team's design and testing of this novel advanced material from scratch required multidisciplinary expertise and sophisticated tools from such places as Argonne National Laboratory and ORNL, including Argonne's Advanced Photon Source and ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Science, says Lee.

The findings are presented this week in the journal Nature, in a paper by Ju Li, professor of nuclear science and engineering and of materials science and engineering at MIT, and seven others at MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, and universities in China and Germany.