Sentences with phrase «nanoengineering at»

Barron is the Charles W. Duncan Jr. - Welch Professor of Chemistry and a professor of materials science and nanoengineering at Rice and the Sêr Cymru Chair of Low Carbon Energy and Environment at Swansea.

«This began from my core research,» said Morosan, professor of physics and astronomy, of chemistry and of materials science and nanoengineering at Rice.

Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first printed battery that is flexible, stretchable and rechargeable.

However, most of these circuits are built on flat, rigid surfaces that can't bend, stretch, or fold, says Darren Lipomi, a nanoengineer at the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved in the new study.

Nanoengineers at the University of California have developed a new biomaterial with properties similar to those of human tissue.

Not exact matches

Rajan Kumar, a co-first author on this Advanced Energy Materials paper, is a nanoengineering Ph.D. student at the Jacobs School of Engineering.

The team, including nanoengineering professor Jian Luo here at the University of California San Diego as a co-corresponding author together with Professor Martin Harmer at Lehigh University, lays out their findings in the Oct. 6, 2017 issue of Science.

«This is a significant step toward self - powered stretchable electronics,» said Joseph Wang, one of the paper's senior authors and a nanoengineering professor at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, where he directs the school's Center for Wearable Sensors.

Case in point: Shaochen Chen, a professor of nanoengineering and bioengineering at the University of California San Diego, who co-directs the university's Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Center (which is part of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine) with a medical doctor.

«Nanoengineers develop basis for electronics that stretch at the molecular level.»

Co-authors are Ok - Kyung Park, a visiting scholar at Rice and a postdoctoral researcher at Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea; Rice postdoctoral researchers Almaz Jalilov and Rodrigo Villegas Salvatierra and graduate students Luong Xuan Duy, Sandhya Susarla and Jarin Joyner; Rice alumnus Sehmus Ozden, now a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory; Robert Vajtai, a senior faculty fellow at Rice; Jun Lou, a Rice professor of materials science and nanoengineering; and James Tour, Rice's T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering; and Professor Douglas Galvão of the State University of Campinas.

The new phosphor — made of the elements strontium, lithium, aluminum and oxygen (a combination dubbed «SLAO»)-- was discovered using a systematic, high - throughput computational approach developed in the lab of Shyue Ping Ong, a nanoengineering professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and lead principal investigator of the study.

Limiting it could be a key to improving the quality of these solar cells,» said David Fenning, a professor of nanoengineering and member of the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego.

A collaboration of nanoengineers and electrical and computing engineers at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla combined their expertise to create the small device that detects alcohol levels and transmits that information to a cell phone or other monitoring station.

«It's clearly interesting and exciting research, but it's a first step,» cautions James Tour, a nanoengineering and materials scientist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, who is not part of the study.

Nanoengineers have a shiny, new tool at their disposal: laser - producing devices the size of viruses.

«This is the greatest tactile sensitivity that has ever been shown in humans,» said Darren Lipomi, a professor of nanoengineering and member of the Center for Wearable Sensors at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, who led the interdisciplinary project with V. S. Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and distinguished professor in the Department of Psychology at UC San Diego.

«We combined the strengths of two different materials — nanosponges and hydrogels — to create a powerful formulation to treat local bacterial infections,» said Liangfang Zhang, nanoengineering professor in the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, who led the team.

The researchers in Jonathan Claussen's lab at Iowa State University (who like to call themselves nanoengineers) have been looking for ways to use graphene and its amazing properties in their sensors and other technologies.

Remarkable advances in nanoengineering, optobiology, and synthetic biology have the potential to provide a set of tools that would allow us to study the brain at this new level.

Researchers seeking to understand the fundamentals of properties at the nanoscale may call their work nanoscience; those focused on effective use of the properties may call their work nanoengineering.

«We were interested in a fast and easy way to take these nanoparticles out of plasma so we could find out what's going on at their surfaces and redesign them to work more effectively in blood,» said Michael Heller, a nanoengineering professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and senior author of the study.

Related Awards # 1235881 Convective Thermal Transport at Superhydrophobic Surfaces # 1066426 Investigation of icephobic behavior of surfaces with tunable properties # 1331817 STTR Phase I: STTR Proposal on Atmospheric Water Capture using Advanced Nanomaterials # 1066356 Turbulent Flow Drag Reduction Using Surfaces Exhibiting Superhydrophobicity and Riblets # 1235867 Collaborative Research: A Micropatterned Wettability Approach for Superior Boiling Heat Transfer Performance # 0952564 CAREER: Fundamental Studies of Condensation Phenomena on Heterogeneous and Hierarchical Nanoengineered Surfaces

### The research team In addition to Jonathan Claussen and Loreen Stromberg, co-authors of the paper describing water - repelling, inkjet - printed graphene circuits are: Suprem Das, an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at Kansas State University, formerly an Iowa State postdoctoral research associate in mechanical engineering and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory; Srilok Srinivasan, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Qing He, an Iowa State graduate student in agricultural and biosystems engineering; Nathaniel Garland, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Warren Straszheim, an Iowa State associate scientist with the Materials Analysis and Research Laboratory; Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering, a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice University in Houston; and Ganesh Balasubramanian, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, formerly an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State.

Solar power may look terribly uneconomical at the moment, but with the exponential progress being made in nanoengineering, Dr. Kurzweil calculates that it'll be cost - competitive with fossil fuels in just five years, and that within 20 years all our energy will come from clean sources.»