In work led by professor Yanliang Zhang at Boise State University, high - performance and low - cost flexible thermoelectric films and devices were fabricated by an innovative screen - printing process that allows for direct conversion of
nanocrystals into flexible thermoelectric devices.
In the same way large antennas on rooftops direct emission of classical radio waves for cellular and satellite transmissions, the nano - antenna efficiently directed the single photons emitted from
the nanocrystals into a well - defined direction in space.
A team of researchers from Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Wisconsin synthesized a highly active and durable class of electrocatalysts by exploiting the structural evolution of solid Pt - Ni bimetallic
nanocrystals into porous cage - like structures or nanoframes.
The material was synthesized by exploiting the structural evolution of platinum - nickel (Pt - Ni) bimetallic
nanocrystals into cage - like structures with a self - assembled Pt skin structure on the interior and exterior surfaces.
A team of researchers has synthesized a highly active and durable class of electrocatalysts by exploiting the structural evolution of solid Pt - Ni bimetallic
nanocrystals into porous cage - like structures or nanoframes.
Not exact matches
Ultra-thin
nanocrystal films convert infrared
into visible light — and could be incorporated
into standard glasses
Nanocrystals selectively infused, or «doped», with rare - earth ions have attracted the attention of researchers, because of their low toxicity and ability to convert low - energy laser light
into violet - colored luminescence emissions — a process known as photon upconversion.
They produce the materials by heating a readily available precursor material, which also allows them to incorporate triply charged europium ions, Eu3 +, as «dopants»
into any of the LaOBr
nanocrystals.
The nanowire path beyond the superconductor is configured
into a junction and the team ensures that the electrons take separate directions when they meet this fork by placing a «gate» built from a
nanocrystal, called a quantum dot, at the head of each path.
Nanocrystals that turn heat
into visible light could make your wildest spy dreams come true.
Spiders have perfected their silk over 400 million years of evolution and the fibre they spin is a semi-crystalline composite biopolymer made up of several amino acids organized
into semi-amorphous helical - elastic alpha - chains and beta - pleated
nanocrystals.
Materials scientist Dongsheng Li will use sophisticated microscopes to take a close look at how
nanocrystals less than one - thousandth the width of a human hair assemble
into branched structures while the process is taking place.
They discovered that by coating blue LEDs with a layer of
nanocrystals specially engineered to turn the blue light
into warm white, they could produce light at efficiency of over 300 lumens of visible light per watt.
A new Berkeley Lab - led study provides insight
into how an ultrathin coating can enhance the performance of graphene - wrapped
nanocrystals for hydrogen storage applications.