Sentences with phrase «nanocrystals made»

Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Center for Computational Materials Science, working with an international team of physicists, have revealed that nanocrystals made of cesium lead halide perovskites (CsPbX3), is the first discovered material which the ground exciton state is «bright,» making it an attractive candidate for more efficient solid - state lasers and light emitting diodes (LEDs).

Using tiny nanocrystals made of semiconducting materials, the scientists developed a method in which a single nanocrystal can be accurately positioned on top of a specially designed and carefully fabricated nano - antenna.

Not exact matches

«The branching molecules are more cone - shaped, which increases steric hindrance and makes it harder for the solvent to access the surface of the nanocrystals,» he said.

This light stimulates dyes made with nanocrystals of rare earth elements — a family of 17 similar metals that are not scarce but are difficult to mine.

Empa researchers Gilberto Siqueira and Tanja Zimmermann from the Laboratory for Applied Wood Materials have now succeeded, together with colleagues from Harvard University and ETH Zürich, in developing a new, environmentally friendly 3D printing ink made from cellulose nanocrystals (CNC).

Other forms of quantum dots could be used as a sensor in place of the molecule, such as those that can be realized with semiconductor materials: one example would be quantum dots made of nanocrystals like those already being used in fundamental research.

Dr. Yaping Du of Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, and colleagues have developed a way to make high - quality nanocrystals of lanthanide oxybromides, where the lanthanide metal can be lanthanum, europium, gadolinium or terbium.

«The largest superparamagnetic materials that we have been able to make before now were clusters of nanocrystals that were together about a thousand times smaller than these,» commented Dr. Chen.

Recently, his group has developed a number of high - performance electrocatalysts made with non-precious metal oxide or nanocrystals hybridized with carbon nanotubes.

Made from aluminium gallium arsenide, the nanocrystals are 500 times narrower than a human hair and can be applied to ordinary glass as ultra-thin, lightweight films.

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.

Berkeley Lab researchers have produced non-toxic nanocrystals that efficiently emit blue light, making them a bright candidate for solid - state lighting.

The team used the CZTS nanocrystal «ink» that results to build a photovoltaic solar cell (pictured) to «confirm that the material works and demonstrate that smaller nanocrystals display «quantum confinement,» a property that makes them versatile for different uses.»

The technology is made of an electrochromic material composed of nanocrystals of indium tin oxide embedded in a glassy matrix of niobium oxide.