Sentences with phrase «metallic nanostructures»

This approach has several advantages over the metallic nanostructures previously used, as the synthetic procedures are more efficient, the components are smaller and their structures can be varied at will.

Smooth surface, crystalline 3D metallic nanostructures are fabricated using a laser shock imprinting technique.

Now, researchers led by Xiaoyu «Rayne» Zheng, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech have published a study in the journal Nature Materials that describes a new process to create lightweight, strong and super elastic 3 - D printed metallic nanostructured materials with unprecedented scalability, a full seven orders of magnitude control of arbitrary 3 - D architectures.

Not exact matches

The new device relies on a metallic blend of nickel and nickel oxide nanostructures, which help split water into oxygen and hydrogen fuel.

«One of the interesting phenomena that occurs when you shine light on a metallic nanoparticle or nanostructure is that you can excite some subset of electrons in the metal to a much higher energy level,» said Zheng, who works with LANP Director and study co-author Naomi Halas.