Methods: The team began with a novel
materials synthesis method, and a new microscope to obtain the images and interpret the associated chemical data.
«Ion billiards» cue novel
material synthesis method.»
A team of Hokkaido University researchers has developed a novel
material synthesis method called proton - driven ion introduction (PDII) which utilizes a phenomenon similar to «ion billiards.»
Not exact matches
Case in point: In April, Samsung Electronics, working with South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University, announced a graphene
synthesis method that promises to speed the
material's commercialization, touting its potential for use in flexible displays and other cutting - edge products.
Chemists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University and the JST - ERATO Project have developed a new
method to accomplish the programmed
synthesis of benzene derivatives with five or six different functional groups that enables access to novel functional organic
materials that could not have been reached before.
The process, using room temperature mechanical ball milling, provides a lower cost
method to produce these alkali metals which are widely used in industrial processes as reducing and drying agents, precursors in
synthesis of complex metal hydrides, hydrogen storage
materials, and in nuclear engineering.
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.
However, in reality this
synthesis method could be used for a wide range of
materials outside the biomedical field.»
For the last two years the researchers have been developing new
methods for quick and cost - effective
synthesis of atomically thin two - dimensional
materials — graphene, molybdenum and tungsten disulfide — in gram quantities, particularly for rechargeable battery applications.
Plasma
synthesis, which consumes large amounts of energy and involves significant
material wastage, is another generally used
method.
«We were really excited to develop this simple yet powerful
method to achieve the
synthesis of external - stimuli - response
materials,» said Professor Kenichiro Itami, director of the JST - ERATO project and center director of ITbM.
The
synthesis method is based on a liquid - free process that allows for intercalation — insertion of guest ions into a host
material — and ion substitution with those in the host
material by driving ions with protons.
Our work outlines a basis for using various miscibility tests and future simulation
methods that will significantly reduce or eliminate trial - and - error approaches to
material synthesis and device fabrication of functional semiconducting blends and organic blends in general.
«We had to modify the
method to conform to PNNL safety requirements, which meant not working in gas tubes under high pressure,» said Derewinski, a
materials synthesis expert.
Further, the modular nature of the MOF
synthesis method and their internal chemistry lets scientists build
materials with a range of structures and properties.
PPPL collaborations with physicists at Princeton University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook have now uncovered a
method for speeding the growth of nanoparticles — a step toward understanding, predicting and controlling the
synthesis of plasma to produce the prized
material.
By combining the cellulose - breakdown and sugar - conversion steps, we are very close to a single - step
method of converting raw biomass into a new platform chemical — a chemical you can readily turn into a transportation fuel or for
synthesis of plastics and other useful
materials,» said PNNL geochemist and study coauthor Jim Amonette.
He has shown how relatively stable compounds can be used to prepare high quality functional
materials, and developed improved
methods to convert precursors into useful functional products, devising and refining ways by which nanoparticles
syntheses can be controlled within the size limits require for device use.
Synthesis of multi-atomic oxide
materials by soft chemistry
methods: no...
Based on our
synthesis of published anatomical and functional data in humans and nonhuman animals (see
Materials and
Methods), we hypothesized that the amygdala would parse into three subregions that each anchor a large - scale network of brain regions implicated in distinct processes of social cognition.