Sentences with phrase «nanomaterials research»

Under PNNL's Transformational Materials Science Initiative, Lin is leading nanomaterials research for homeland security and biomedical applications.

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.

Today, he is heading up one of the world's leading laboratories using nanomaterial research to pursue challenges in energy and environmental sciences, particularly in the development of the next generation of batteries.

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At the crest of this wave is Olga Koper, research leader at Columbus, Ohio's nonprofit Battelle Memorial Institute since May 2011 and holder of more than 30 U.S. and international patents for composition and applications of nanomaterials.

It was monitoring and conducting its own research into nanomaterials.

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.»

A research group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum thanresearch group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum thanResearch Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

To gain this new understanding into the behavior of matter at the nanoscale, García - Garibay's research group designed three rotating nanomaterials known as MOFs, or metal - organic frameworks, which they call UCLA - R1, UCLA - R2 and UCLA - R3 (the «r» stands for rotor).

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

A research team led by Timothy R. Nurkiewicz, Ph.D., associate professor in the WVU School of Medicine Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and researcher in the Center for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences, is finding inhalation of engineered nanomaterials negatively impacts gestational development in animal models.

«The innovation... represents a new kind of renewable energy source,» says Liming Dai, a nanomaterials engineer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, who was not involved in the research.

But controversy is on the rise as critics are calling for bans on research until nanomaterials can be shown to be safe.

«We already know microvascular function is negatively impacted by breathing nanomaterials,» Nurkiewicz said, summarizing his research program's discoveries over the previous years.

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the most important national research funder in Germany, and the Degussa - Hüls AG, a global chemistry corporation based at Marl, have recently jointly set up the Nanomaterials Priority Program involving seven German universities (see Next Wave report).

The multi-national team of experts from the UK, Germany and Russia, was led by Andrei Khlobystov, a Professor of Nanomaterials and Director of The University of Nottingham's Nanoscale and Microscale Research Centre.

«If we want to take advantage of the promising properties of nanoparticles, we need to be able to reliably incorporate them into larger - scale composite materials for real - world applications,» explained Brookhaven physicist Oleg Gang, who led the research at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

Gaps in the research — despite more than $ 14 billion in government and private investment — include a basic understanding of how nanomaterials are absorbed and metabolized by the human body as well as how toxic they may be to people already working with them.

Many research groups in Korea and other countries have been improving the resolution through the development of nanomaterials but there has been a limitation to improve the sensors» sensitivity due to the low diffusion transport of biomolcules toward the sensing region.

This process, called sonication, is how CNI is able to scale up production of graphene to meet the research and development demands of the W - TENG and other nanomaterial inventions in development.

The research, in which the CIC biomaGUNE and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid also participate, not only represents a record in optical quality in which billions of gold nanoparticles behave as a single one, but introduces a new way to manipulate and improve nanomaterials by employing lasers as chisels in the hands of a sculptor.

«We want our research to inform manufacturers and regulators about safer options when a nanofiber is being selected for the production of nanomaterials for emerging 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.

New research, published in the journal Scientific Reports, demonstrates that by growing nanomaterials, specifically carbon nanotubes, on the surface of the carbon fibres it is possible to impart these necessary properties.

The paper, entitled «Dynamic peptide libraries for the discovery of supramolecular nanomaterials,» is a continuation of Ulijn's research of tunable peptide structures, which have shown great promise in a variety of commercial applications.

This development is part of a thematic research effort between Northrop Grumman, NG Next Basic Research and USC known as the Northrop Grumman Institute of Optical Nanomaterials and Nanophotonics (NG research effort between Northrop Grumman, NG Next Basic Research and USC known as the Northrop Grumman Institute of Optical Nanomaterials and Nanophotonics (NG Research and USC known as the Northrop Grumman Institute of Optical Nanomaterials and Nanophotonics (NG - ION2).

In the end, the research suggests that greenery enhanced with carbon nanotubes could potentially produce more from sunlight, air and water, although adding such nanomaterials would be both laborious and may have unknown long - term impacts on the vegetation as a whole as well as on the environment.

The researchers from the Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Research Center of the University of Oviedo in Spain, and the University of Porto in Portugal, reported their findings this week in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing.

This unique combination of silicon photodetectors and nanomaterials allowed the Illinois research team to create a point - and - shoot color - polarization camera.

«Course set to overcome mismatch between lab - designed nanomaterials and nature's complexity: A team of experts stakes out major research challenges for synthetic nanomaterials to achieve desired biological functions..»

Kevin Yager, a scientist at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials, discusses his research on materials spanning just billionths of a meter.

The annual Joint National Synchrotron Light Source and Center for Functional Nanomaterials Usersâ $ ™ Meeting presents new research results and advances in experimental capabilities in synchrotron radiation and nanosciences.

«Some novel research on nanomaterials used to capture carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels actually led us to this discovery,» said McGrail.

The Partnership for Soft Condensed Matter is a scientific and technical platform supporting ambitious large - scale soft matter research projects related to nanomaterials, environmental and energy sciences, biotechnology and related fields.

«We solved a 25 - year challenge in building diamond lattices in a rational way via self - assembly,» said Oleg Gang, a physicist who led this research at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven Lab in collaboration with scientists from Stony Brook University, Wesleyan University, and Nagoya University in Japan.

A new review article appearing in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) co-authored by Dr. Todd Kuiken, a research associate for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN), focuses on the use of nanomaterials for environmental cleanup.

At the Army Research Laboratory, scientists are on the hunt for nanomaterials that could improve engine technology in a big way.

After years of breaking ground on nanomaterials for batteries and solar panels, in 2010 she joined MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and threw herself into solving the riddles of ovarian cancer.

Researchers in AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland - funded materials science research centre hosted in Trinity College Dublin, have fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely of 2 - dimensional nanomaterials for the first time.

Chemistry Department, University of Warsaw, Poland Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, USA Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, USA

With numerous symposiums and plenary sessions E-MRS Spring Meeting provides a forum to discuss current trends and cutting - edge research on nanomaterials, biomaterials and nanomedicine, semiconductors and nanodevices, material processing and characterization setting up trends and future paths in material research field.

As a Research Councils UK academic fellow at Manchester, she investigated the microbial production of selenium - based nanomaterials linked to bioremediation strategies for selenium - contaminated soils.

The focus of her research is the colloidal synthesis and characterization of sustainable nanomaterials for energy applications including solar cells and LEDs.

Her many research highlights include the development of new nanomaterials and chemical processes for use in a range of high technology applications, including catalysis, energy, healthcare, chemicals and food coatings, and novel dynamic electron microscopies.

Research at the PPPL Laboratory for Plasma Nanosynthesis develops new insight into the use of plasma to synthesize nanomaterials — particles such as carbon nanotubes that are measured in billionths of a meter, are found in everything from swimwear to electrodes and have a tensile strength, or resistance to breaking when stretched, that is stronger than steel.

Lin's research focuses on developing nanobioelectronic devices and nanomaterials for diagnosis and drug delivery.

The House Science and Technology Committee introduced legislation today that highlights the growing attention on Capitol Hill to the need to strengthen federal efforts to learn more about the potential environmental, health and safety (EHS) risks posed by engineered nanomaterials.Introduction of the bill comes only months after J. Clarence (Terry) Davies authored a report that makes a series of recommendations for improving federal risk research and oversight of engineered nanomaterials at EPA, the FDA and the CPSC.

«For anyone working with nanomaterials at dimensions 5 nanometers or less, our well - characterized nanoparticles can ensure confidence that their measurements are accurate,» says NIST research chemist Vytas Reipa, leader of the team that developed and qualified RM 8027.

Research carried out in part at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, the X1A1 beamline of the National Synchrotron Light Source, the CSX - 2 beamline of the National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, which are supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No.

Scientists from the National University of Science and Technology MISIS (NUST MISIS), the State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology and the Queensland University (Brisbane, Australia) have created BN / Ag hybrid nanomaterials and have proved their effectiveness as catalysts and antibacterial agents as well as for treating oncological diseases.

Experimental physicists in the research group led by Professor Uwe Hartmann at Saarland University have developed a thin nanomaterial with superconducting properties.