Sentences with phrase «nanorods using»

«The smaller the application, the more likely it is for this to be cost - effective,» noting that coating the entire base of an industrial boiler in nanorods using current technology would be too costly to make it worth the high price tag.

The team, which was led by Cornell's Justin B. Sambur and Peng Chen, applied the method to TiO2 nanorods used in light - induced water - splitting reactions.

Not exact matches

The stickiness holding these «nanorods» together were non-covalent bonds between backbone atoms, the same types of bonds nature uses so that proteins take their proper shapes.

To demonstrate the material, the lab placed the precursor into its custom chemical vapor deposition (CVD) furnace and used it to coat an array of light - absorbing, semiconducting titanium dioxide nanorods.

For example, plain gold nanorods of different lengths may allow effective plasmonic absorption in the near - infrared range for use in solar energy conversion with improved harvesting of solar spectrum.

Nanorod structures aren't new, but the technique used by Lin's lab produces nanorods of uniform sizes — such as barium titanate and iron oxide, which have not yet been demonstrated via wet - chemistry approaches in the literature — and highly - uniform core - shell nanorods made by combining two dissimilar materials.

«To create these structures, we used nonlinear bottlebrush - like block copolymers as tiny reactors to template the growth of an exciting variety of inorganic nanorods.»

This new technique enables tight control over diameter, length and surface properties of the nanorods, whose optical, electrical, magnetic and catalytic properties depend on the precursor materials used and the dimensions of the nanorods.

Tiny particles known as nanorods may make cooking utensils more efficient, using less time and energy

Both in vivo and in vitro experiments were performed using gel patches with gold nanorods, gel patches without gold nanorods (control 1), and gel patches with gold nanorods but without any form of irradiation (control 2).

The researchers used a combination of transparent gel patches, gold nanorods, and near - infrared (NIR) light to create a unique thermal ablation system for transdermal drug delivery.

Although the test uses gold, the nanorods are very small.

The nanocrystals allow the diagnostic nanorods to be shipped and stored without refrigeration prior to use.

The device has been used to separate different blood components, to separate cancer cells from blood and to manipulate nanorod motors inside living cells, to name only a few research areas.

«The NREL approach uses nanorods to improve what is going on inside, while ensuring that the nest remains durable and resilient.»

In 2005 researchers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., created a metamaterial with a negative refractive index in the near - infrared portion of the spectrum using ultrathin gold nanorods 100 nanometers by 700 nanometers to conduct clouds of electrons.

«This characteristic makes gold nanorods attractive for use in catalysis, security materials and a range of biomedical applications, such as diagnostics, imaging, and cancer therapy,» says Joe Tracy, a materials science and engineering researcher at NC State who is senior author of a recent paper on the improved technique.

Gold nanorods are being investigated for use in a wide variety of biomedical applications, and this advance paves the way for more stable gold nanorods and for chemically functionalizing the surface of the shells.

«The techniques we use to deposit nanorods are compatible with what you use to make chips,» Koratkar notes.

«If you're using pans to cook food and you have copper nanorods that are coming off the surface, that's a major problem.»

In this work, we have focused on the use of gold nanorods, in which minimal variations in their length or width result in significant changes in the color of the light they absorb,» says Luis Liz Marzán, scientific director of CIC biomaGUNE and researcher at the Ikerbasque Program.

The team used the key properties of zinc oxide, a material that when squashed or stretched creates a voltage by converting energy from motion into electrical energy, in the form of nanorods.

She used electron - beam deposition to create arrays — regular arrangements of nanorods — in each pixel.

From those measurements, the team made catalytic activity maps and used them along with the microscopy method to selectively deposit tiny quantities of a cobalt borate OEC on the nanorod hot spots.

To find the answer, the Cornell team scanned nearly 40 TiO2 nanorods for catalytic hot spots by using two types of probe reactions — an electron - induced reduction and a hole - induced oxidation.

We used 60 nm spheres (NSP), 25x75 nm nanorods (NR) and multi-NP (NSP - NR) clusters consisting of spheres and rods (Figure 3).