The word
"microstructure" refers to the small-scale arrangement and organization of elements within a material or substance. It describes the detailed patterns, compositions, and features that can only be seen under a microscope or at a very small scale.
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Researchers at NYU's Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation Research have developed a new way to measure changes in
microstructure of muscle fiber.
Researchers from LSU, Fudan University, the University of Florida and the Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced
Microstructures in Nanjing, China, conducted research on materials that separate into different regions through a process called electronic phase separation, which is poorly understood.
I first came across this concept applied in financial markets in Larry Harris» Trading and Exchanges:
Market Microstructure for Practitioners, and Henri Amiel's quote refreshed it.
Engineering Surface - Erodible Polyanhydrides with Tailored
Microstructure for Controlled Drug and Protein Delivery, Amy S. Determan and Balaji Narasimhan, USA
Quantitative Phase Microscopy of
microstructures with extended measurement range and correction of chromatic aberrations by multiwavelength digital holography P. Ferraro, L. Miccio, S. Grilli, M. Paturzo, S. De Nicola, A. Finizio, R. Osellame, and P. Laporta Optics Express 15, 14591 (2007).
Some colors are the result of pigment in the scales, but iridescent hues are produced
by microstructures in the scales that scatter light in various ways.
The relationship
between microstructure, isotopic signatures and mapping human movement was a logical next step.
3D microstructures of device - grade silicon formed using concepts similar to those in children's «pop - up» books.
Researchers determined distal radius cortical and trabecular
bone microstructure by HR - pQCT, together with areal BMD (aBMD) by DXA.
The final puzzle piece fell into place at the 1999 Conference on Lasers and Electro - Optics where Jinendra Ranka of Bell Laboratories presented a paper on a new kind of optical fiber known as
microstructure fiber.
By
developing microstructure design criteria we aim at building the rational foundations for an accelerated promotion of promising RE-lean phases to application - ready new hard magnets.
The results were confirmed in cooperation with the team working with Peter Werner from the Max Planck Institute of
Microstructure Physics using high resolution transmission electron microscopy.
In contrast, tuning the skin
microstructure within the 3D collagen - fibroblast matrices using the manual - casting approach is extremely challenging.»
Self - assembling carbon
microstructures created in a lab by University of Colorado Boulder researchers could provide new clues — and new cautions — in efforts to identify microbial life preserved in the fossil record, both on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.
«Other researchers should take note of this unique
cross-lamellar microstructure as a way of improving high - temperature creep strength and fracture toughness in ultrahigh temperature alloys,» says group leader Takayoshi Nakano.
Joris Laarman Lab; Aluminum Gradient Chair,
from Microstructures series, 2014; Laser - sintered aluminum; H x W x D: 77 × 72 × 70 cm (30 5/16 × 28 3/8 × 27 9/16 in.)
Fabricated high surface area 3D
carbon microstructures by microfabrication process - carbon - microelectromechanical systems (C - MEMS) technique.
Washington, DC — A team of scientists including Carnegie's Dina Bower and Andrew Steele weigh in on whether
microstructures found in 3.46 billion - year - old samples of a silica - rich rock called chert found in Western Australia are the planet's oldest fossils.
The carbon -
sulfur microstructures created in the new study, however, may solve one of the key challenges by encasing the sulfur in conductive carbon, potentially creating more electrically efficient Li - S batteries.
Joris Laarman Lab; Soft Gradient Chair, from
Microstructures series, 2014; 3D - printed TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane); H x W x D: 77 × 72 × 70 cm (30 5/16 × 28 3/8 × 27 9/16 in.)
Whereas the classical two -
phase microstructure consists of cuboid γ» precipitates embedded in a so called γ - matrix, during heat treatment, spherical γ particles initially form in the γ» precipitates of the alloy, then further coalesce into plates that finally split the γ» precipitates.
The 3 - D X-ray imaging technique and simulated planetary conditions that NASA is enlisting at the ALS provide the best pictures yet of the behavior of the internal 3 -
D microstructure of spacecraft materials.
The researchers used high - resolution scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive x-ray analysis to
study microstructure and elemental composition, and high - resolution x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for more detailed chemical characterization.
However, until now, our understanding of exactly how the sliding behaviour of liquid droplets depends on
surface microstructures has been limited.
In recognition of their work in developing the scanning confocal microscope to the point where it is used in hundreds of research laboratories worldwide and
reveals microstructures not discernible by other methods.
With a large enough collection, it may be possible to draw parallels between
brain microstructures and distinct human skills or behaviors.
«Introduction of novel plasmonic components for high - speed transmission of information between electronic chips in the computer combines the advantages of electronic and optical components, while the transmission rate is comparable or even improved,» says project coordinator Professor Manfred Kohl of KIT's Institute of
Microstructure Technology.
We already had an operating setup into which we could almost drop the
new microstructure fiber.
The material was made in a single steel sheet using lasers to engrave «chiral,» or geometric
microstructure patterns, which are asymmetrical to their mirror images.
On Monday, March 30th, Dmitry Novikov, Assistant Professor at NYU Center for Biomedical Imaging, will give a talk on breaking through the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) resolution limits to the
tissue microstructure below.
Whole - brain
WM microstructure abnormalities were more pronounced in the left hemisphere in SD and bilaterally — with a slight predilection for the right — in bvFTD.
Instead, the information from different depths inside it is superposed - similar to an X-ray image - and projected onto a plane,» explains the Director of the Ernst Ruska - Centre, who is also Director of the Institute for
Microstructure Research (PGI - 5) in Jülich's Peter Grünberg Institute.
The MIT researchers begin by defining a space of physical properties, in which any
given microstructure will assume a particular location.
The PFM method uses a diffuse - interface description to describe the dynamics of the reaction front in response to a local electrochemical driving force, and is a powerful approach for
modeling microstructure evolution as well as corrosion processes.
This image, captured with an epifluorescence microscope, shows neural pathways known as «fiber tracts» that are trapped on
hexagonal microstructures made of silicon.
Integrated computational materials engineering is a field of science that develops computational models so scientists can understand materials at these various scales, allowing them to tailor and optimize custom -
designed microstructures with the necessary properties for the functions they are destined for.
In addition to making batteries, he says, the 3D patterning technique is likely to be useful for making a wide variety of novel carbon -
based microstructures.
Cindy Barrera, a postdoctoral researcher in Cornish's lab, found in tests that eggshells have
porous microstructures that provide larger surface area for contact with the rubber, and give rubber - based materials unusual properties.
«Conventional 3D printing technologies are fantastic, but none offers the ability to
build microstructures that embed high performance semiconductors, such as silicon,» explained John Rogers, a Swanlund Chair and professor of materials science and engineering at Illinois.
So the secret to cracking the problem of large scale production was to create a multidisciplinary team which included expertise in
analysing microstructure and linking it to the chemical process which produced it.
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