Sentences with word «nanomechanical»

In a stressed area, how are nanomechanical properties changing?

He went on to develop motifs robust enough to be used as the components of both crystalline lattices and of nanomechanical devices.

Over the last decade, strained nanomechanical oscillators have emerged as an important paradigm owing to their anomalously high quality factors; however, this trend is not as much a design choice as an artifact of large stresses naturally produced at the nanoscale.

Researchers at NTNU's Nanomechanical Lab and from the university's Department of Chemistry and their collaborators in China and the Netherlands are interested in understanding the relation between molecular structures and the mechanical stability of materials.

Exciton Science has two PhD opportunities available; an upconvertor spectroscopy position; and an atomic force microscope nanomechanical sensing position.

Armed with a powerful set of tools at EPFL's Center of MicroNanoTechnology, researchers in Kippenberg's lab set about engineering nanomechanical devices with deliberately enhanced stress and dissipation dilution.

«This architecture paves the way for advances in nanomechanical sensing,» the researchers write.

He also envisions that this kind of nanomechanical phenotyping should allow for the development of predictive models for cellular behavior for any kind of cell.

In future, even electronic switches could be replaced by nanomechanical switches, which would use less energy for switching on and off than conventional transistors.

The team's nanomechanical detection method practically eliminates the need for cumbersome biochemical reactions used in today's technologies.

Nanomechanical cleavage of molybdenum disulphide atomic layers by Dai - Ming Tang, Dmitry G. Kvashnin, Sina Najmaei, Yoshio Bando, Koji Kimoto, Pekka Koskinen, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Boris I. Yakobson, Pavel B. Sorokin, Jun Lou, & Dmitri Golberg.

«We developed a unique nanomechanical approach to precisely control and quantify the ultralarge elastic strain distributed in the nanodiamond samples,» said Yang Lu, associate professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

Her focus is on nanoscale compositions, transport, pattern formation, reaction mechanisms, and nanomechanical properties.

That could have important implications for everything from climate science to their use as a future energy source, said Zhiliang Zhang, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and founder of the university's Nanomechanical Lab.

He went on to develop structures that were robust enough to be used as scaffolding for both crystalline lattices and nanomechanical devices, and created two dimensional periodic arrays of DNA.

«What's new is the application of [force microscopy] to the nanomechanical properties of biological structure,» says Sergei Magonov, a staff scientist at Digital Instruments, a company that makes force microscopes.

This advance could help spur the development of a technique known as inertial imaging, which makes use of several vibration modes to image an object as it sits on a nanomechanical resonator.

Those data were then combined with information about functional changes in cell behavior to develop a nanomechanical profile, or phenotype, for specific cellular states.

In this new study, the team took advantage of graphene's mechanical «stretchability» to tune the output frequency of their custom oscillator, creating a nanomechanical version of an electronic component known as a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO).

Among the results he has achieved are demonstrations of the quantum teleportation between material objects, a quantum memory for light, an optical detection of radio waves using a nanomechanical oscillator, a quantum optical interface with a one dimensional atomic crystal, and measurement of motion not restricted by the Heisenberg uncertainty.

He designed the first DNA - based nanomechanical device, as well as robust individually - addressable 2 - and 3 - state nanomechanical devices.

Led by Sillanpää, the researchers from Aalto and the University of Jyväskylä combined a nanomechanical resonator — a vibrating nanodrum — with two superconducting circuits, i.e. cavities.

D. Salerno, D. Brogioli, V. Cassina, D. Turchi, G.L. Beretta, D. Seruggia, R. Ziano, F. Zunino, F. Mantegazza, «Magnetic tweezers measurements of the nanomechanical properties of DNA in the presence of drugs».