Sentences with phrase «nanomaterials in»

Also in 2010, Bunsow served as lead trial counsel for DA Nanomaterials in a suit that secured a declaratory judgment of noninfringement on four patents, according to his Howrey C.V. News of the three San Francisco departures comes on the same day that Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced the opening of an office in Taipei, Taiwan, with the addition of four lawyers from Howrey's Taipei office.

Maynard et al. say nanotechnology needs to: develop instruments to assess exposure to engineered nanomaterials in air and water within next 3 - 10 years; create and test ways of evaluating the toxicity of nanomaterials in 5 - 15 years; generate models to predict their possible impact on the environment and human health over the next 10 years; develop ways to assess the health and environmental impact of nanomaterials over their entire lifetime, within 5 years; and, enable risk - focused research into nanomaterials, within the next 12 months.

The result illustrates that metagenomics is a very sensitive tool and that it might be used to screen novel nanomaterials in the future for their potential environmental impact and so also help in the development of more focused testing, adds Pruden.

«There are potential technology - based solutions for replacing 13 out of the 14 metals by carbon nanomaterials in their most common applications.

ASTM E2834, Guide for Measurement of Particle Size Distribution of Nanomaterials in Suspension by Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA), and ASTM E2859, Guide for Size Measurement of Nanoparticles Using Atomic Force Microscopy, are both under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee E56.02 on Physical and Chemical Characterization.

«The Evolving Landscape of Drug Products Containing Nanomaterials in the United States,» by Sheetal R. D'Mello et al., Nature Nanotechnology, June 2017.

At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Abellan is obtaining and analyzing in situ electron microscopy images of nanomaterials in liquids.

He has pioneered the use of nanomaterials in energy storage devices and has created numerous breakthrough materials - based solutions that dramatically improve battery capacity and cycle life, including nanostructured silicon anodes, sulfur cathodes, and stable lithium metal anodes.

The goal of these studies is to identify fundamental principles which dictate biocompatibility of nanomaterials in order to guide safe and effective applications of these technologies.

We wanted to demonstrate that it was possible to produce nanomaterials in considerable quantities cost - effectively,» comments Ari Auvinen of VTT, head of the research team.

The further arrangement of these nanomaterials in a rationally designed manner can lead to a better understanding of how matter organizes and potential discovery of new functional materials.

This solvent also offers enhanced properties for nanotechnology and for the stability of these nanomaterials in solution.»

Not surprisingly, companies churning out products with nanomaterials in them tend to argue that existing regulations and testing are adequate to ensure these materials are safe, while environmental groups tend to call it the other way.

Read the news section of journals and keep a close eye on controversial topics: synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, the use of nanomaterials in medicine.

They will then analyze the results obtained so as to be in a better position to assess the behavior of nanomaterials in the environment and their potential danger for humans, animals, and the environment.

This allows us to detect the real amounts and forms of the nanomaterials in the environment,» explains Kohl.

Now the partners in the NanoUmwelt project have developed a method that is capable of identifying even minute amounts of nanomaterials in environmental samples.

It's very difficult to detect these nanomaterials in the environment since the concentrations are so low and the particles so small.

The survey results, submitted to a Budget Estimates Committee in June, showed FSANZ was failing to protect consumers from risks linked with the use of nanomaterials in food packaging, Mr Tager said.

It pinpointed nanosilver in packaging boxes and nanomaterials in fresh produce bags as key examples of products appearing on the market.

At Battelle, Koper is studying the use of nanomaterials in membranes for water desalination and treatment; supercapacitors (energy - storage devices that provide higher power densities than batteries); and bio-based (rather than petroleum - based) additives used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve natural gas.

«Hopefully we'll see products containing these nanomaterials in the market.»

In a new contribution, Castellano and Cédric Mongin, a former postdoctoral researcher currently an assistant professor at École normale supérieure Paris - Saclay in France, have shown that not only does the transfer of triplet excitons extend excited state lifetimes, but also that some of the energy gets returned to the original nanomaterial in the process.

Not exact matches

SDC Materials in Tempe, Arizona, makes nanomaterials that can fend off bullets that punch through ordinary bulletproof vests.

Dunkin' Brands shareholders also may vote on whether the company should tell its donut buyers they are consuming nanomaterials, in a new twist.

This will include Dr James Stern from Albis discussing plastics in healthcare applications, Professor Alexander Seifalian of The London BioScience Innovation Centre covering the development of medical devices using graphene nanomaterials and Lorna O'Gara from Ultrapolymers explaining polymer innovation in healthcare and inter-material replacement for flexible applications.

Nanomaterials used in packaging could leach into food and harm consumers, said Friends of the Earth campaigner Jeremy Tager.

For several decades, nanomaterials — matter that is so small it is measured in nanometers (one nanometer = one - billionth of a meter) and can be manipulated at the atomic scale — have outperformed conventional materials in strength, conductivity and other key attributes.

Second, a cognitive psychology approach is needed to conduct basic science research on the mental representations and operations that may be uniquely challenged in the investigation of nanomaterials.»

Researchers use the large - scale facilities at DESY to explore the microcosm in all its variety — ranging from the interaction of tiny elementary particles to the behaviour of innovative nanomaterials and the vital processes that take place between biomolecules to the great mysteries of the universe.

We conclude with current explorations in imaging of nanomaterials and biostructures and an outlook on possible future directions in space - time, 4D electron microscopy.

An international research collaboration led by Drexel's Yury Gogotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering and director of its Nanomaterials Research Group, has created a two - dimensional carbon / sulfur nanolaminate that could be a viable candidate for use as a lithium - sulfur cathode.

The absorbance and scattering of light is determined by the size, shape and material of the nanomaterial and, more importantly, it is also affected by any medium in close proximity to the nanomushroom, such as cells that have been placed on the slide.

The carbon / sulfur nanolaminates synthesized by Gogotsi's group demonstrate the same uniformity as the infiltrated carbon nanomaterials, but the sulfur in the nanolaminates is uniformly deposited in the carbon matrix as atomically thin layers and a strong covalent bonding between carbon and sulfur is observed.

Webster has been studying the possibility of growing tissue around nanomaterials since 1998 when he was a graduate student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Nanoscale materials are increasing growth in all of these tissue types,» he says.

«We discovered surprising and never - before - seen evolution and degradation patterns in two key battery materials,» said Huolin Xin, a materials scientist at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) and coauthor on both studies.

Heat flow in novel nanomaterials could help in creating environmentally friendly and cost - effective nanometric - scale energy devices.

The project team is simulating these processes in petri dishes in order to understand how nanomaterials are transported across these barriers.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

It is still unclear what the impact is on humans, animals and plants of synthetic nanomaterials released into the environment or used in products.

But that rule gets flipped around in oddball nanomaterials with a negative index of refraction.

(Currently, labels on products for sale in the U.S. are not required to disclose the presence of nanomaterials.

«A lot of countries are focused on physical science applications to biosystems,» says Saion Sinha, a professor of physics and electrical engineering at the University of New Haven in Connecticut and a researcher in nanomaterials.

Their findings could have implications for optimising the thermal budget of nanoelectronic devices - which means they could help dissipate the total amount of thermal energy generated by electron currents - or in the production of energy through thermoelectric effects in novel nanomaterials.

In this process, we have to make sure that the nanomaterials are not destroyed or changed.

«New nanomaterial maintains conductivity in three dimensions: International team seamlessly bonds CNTs and graphene.»

Empa, the Swiss partner in the project, delivered a placental barrier model for studying the transport of nanomaterials between mother and child.

A crucial first step in deciding how to regulate nanomaterials and products of nanotechnology is to define how nanomaterials differ from their larger - scale counterparts, says physicist E. Clayton Teague, director of the U.S. government's National Nanotechnology Coordination Office.

NSF further commits to supporting chemical research in clean energy, sustainability, neuroscience, nanomaterials and quantum phenomena.

To combat this, Paul Sermon, a nanomaterials engineer at Brunel University in London, is leading a government - funded team to develop forensic coatings for brass bullet cartridges.