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.
Not exact matches
Engineers have found ways to endow ordinary materials with intricate
microstructures,
creating «metamaterials» that can curve light around very small objects and make them invisible.
Using a method called immersed surface accumulation 3 - D printing (ISA - 3D printing), the research team successfully
created the egg - beater
microstructure in samples made from plastic and carbon nanotubes.
To achieve this, the team used an off - the - shelf digital micromirror array from a commercial video projector to
create a set of
microstructured light patterns that are sequentially superimposed onto a sample.
A cutting - edge development of our centre is the use of a focused proton beam to
create three - dimensional
microstructures with high aspect ratios and structural accuracy.
The metamaterial was fabricated in a single steel sheet with laser engravings
creating chiral
microstructures.
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.
Building on their previous success, the Osaka team turned their attention to the back side of the silicon cells and
created rougher light - trapping
microstructures to capture even more infrared light.
The researchers also
created an «interface database» to model how a particular composite material will perform given its composition,
microstructure and type of interface.
A team at the University of Liège, led by Olivier Absil, designed a portion of the Keck vortex coronagraph called the phase mask, which consists of concentric
microstructures that force the starlight waves to swirl about the mask's center,
creating the vortex singularity.
In The Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Express, the researchers show that their new approach can
create microstructures with a 1.0 - micron lateral (side - to - side) and 21.5 - micron axial (depth) printing resolution.
To
create hollow and solid
microstructures, the researchers used an organic polymer precursor doped with photoinitiator made of off - the - shelf chemical components.
Lately, material scientists have
created ever - stronger metals by involving intricate
microstructures, but the welding technique every so oft...