Sentences with word «nanoscale»

With no apparent long - term replacement for Sammakia waiting in the wings, Johnson was asked if the plan was to merge SUNY Poly's Colleges of Nanoscale of Science and Engineering back into UAlbany after being spun off several years ago by Kaloyeros and merged with SUNY IT in Utica.

Before now, researchers were unable to study it at nanoscales in molecular simulation.

Christoph Gerber is a Swiss professor of physics and Director for Scientific Communication of the National Center of Competence for Nanoscale Science at the University of Basel, where he has been since 2004.

The Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory is a premier user facility providing expertise, instruments, and infrastructure for interdisciplinary nanoscience and nanotechnology research.

In studies that could be important to understanding the effects of nanoscale materials on living cells, the researchers are working to understand the suspected oxidative impacts of titanium dioxide nanoparticles.

Concretely, based on basic research on nanoscale materials, such as atomic and molecular transport and chemical reaction processes, polarization and excitation of charge and spin and superconducting phenomena, we are conducting research on atomic switches, artificial synapses, molecular devices, new quantum bits, neural network - type network circuits, next - generation devices, high sensitivity integrated molecular sensors and other new applied technologies.

Unlike feathers of other colors, which are pigmented, bright blue feathers, like these on the vulturine guineafowl, are the result of nanoscale structures in the feather barbs.

«By allowing us to grow structures much faster with a broad range of precursors, this technique really opens up a whole new direction for making a hierarchy of complex three - dimensional structures with nanoscale resolution at the rate that is demanded for manufacturing scalability,» said Andrei Fedorov, a professor in the George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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His research specializes in the electronic properties of nanoscale devices, encompassing semiconductor nanoelectronics, quantum devices, ion - implanted plastics as novel conducting materials.

Both skeletal elements were scanned using a Nikon Metrology (X-Tek) HMXST225 MicroCT system at the Center for Nanoscale Systems at Harvard University.

Scientists hope to use this method to develop molecular devices that function as nanoscale machines or drug - delivery devices, markers for medical imaging or biological research, and components for electronic devices.

Just as a home ink - jet printer draws letters using ink, Nanoident's printer drizzles liquid polymer or a solution of nanoscale particles in a chosen pattern.

The iridescence and colours that you see on butterflies and other insects result from nanoscale structures not pigment as was believed previously.

We could use nanoscale imaging sensors to detect these reactions, instead of the large cameras we use today.

The wavelength of visible light — 400 - to - 700 nanometers — makes it impossible with today's tools to take photographs of nanoscale objects with any sort of reasonable resolution.

The company applies Berkland's work making nanoscale particles to pharmaceuticals.

«3 - D nanoscale imaging made possible.»

The work, reported in this week's Science (15 October 1999, p. 523), could pave the way for new nanotechnology applications, ranging from testing novel catalysts to creating nanoscale electronic devices.

The liquid is a solution of small protein pieces that assemble into nanoscale fibers on contact, creating a gel that stops the flow of blood without clotting or pressure.

Top - down approaches, on the other hand, start with a much larger chunk of material and sculpt it into silicon chips, circuit boards and other microelectronic components with nanoscale features, by cutting or etching it.

William Shih at the Biomolecular Nanotechnology Group at Harvard Medical School in Boston, US, says this offers the most flexible method yet for building nanoscale structures.

Using ECT, researchers can instantly freeze cells, preserving them in a form that is extremely close to their natural state, and then image them with nanoscale resolution in three dimensions.

Materials with a high surface - to - volume ratio are attractive for studying the noise produced by nanoscale electronics because they are very sensitive to changes of their surfaces.

«The reality is, until you've collected the information, you can't really make good models of how things work,» says nanomaterials scientist Paul Alivisatos, a nanomaterials scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in developing nanoscale technologies.

Bulk nanoscale technologies were used to create three - segment nanowires of gold and nickel, and magnetic bearings of gold, nickel, and chromium.

Three winners share the # 727,000 prize for developing nanoscale machines — 1000th the width of a human hair — that pave the way for applications in medicine, computing and engineering.

Left to their own devices, carbon nanotubes form clumps that are perfectly wrong for turning into the kind of strong, conductive fibers needed for projects ranging from nanoscale electronics to macro-scale power grids.

In a new twist on the use of DNA in nanoscale construction, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators put synthetic strands of the biological material to work in two ways: They used ropelike configurations of the DNA double helix to form a rigid geometrical framework, and added dangling pieces of single - stranded DNA to glue nanoparticles in place.

Seeman conceived the idea of using DNA as a building material for nanoscale engineering.

He joined IDRI's formulations team in 2017 to engineer materials with defined nanoscale properties that can enable rapid translation of emerging vaccine platforms from lab to clinic.

Articles in any contemporary topical areas are sought, from basic science of nanoscale physics and chemistry to applications in nanodevices, quantum engineering and quantum computing.

«Mapping nanoscale chemical reactions inside batteries in 3 - D.»

The nc - AFM microscopy provided striking visual confirmation of the mechanisms that underlie these synthetic organic chemical reactions, and the unexpected results reinforced the promise of this powerful new method for building advanced nanoscale electronic devices from the bottom up.

It's not reruns of «The Jetsons,» but researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new microscopy technique that uses a process similar to how an old tube television produces a picture — cathodoluminescence — to image nanoscale features.

His aim is to compose new sets of design rules, vastly expanding the range of nanoscale architectures generated by the method.

The researchers would like to use such nanoscale and porous metal structures for a number of industrial applications; for instance, the team is developing finely detailed, porous anodes and cathodes for batteries rather than the solid structures that are now used.

The study is the first to demonstrate the efficiency of the coatings using precision nanoscale measurements, said Ha.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are also experimenting with a form of nanoscale printing called nanolithography, which may lead to the production of nanopatterned structures, including nanocircuits, that may be useful in a variety of fields, including electronics, nanofluidics and medicine.

«We want to study nanoscale processes such as the structural changes in a material as a crack moves through it at the speed of sound,» he said.

Utilizes advanced electron microscopy techniques to study nanoscale structure and defects that determine the utility of functional materials, such as superconductors, multiferroics, and other energy related systems including thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, and batteries.

Read about a new study published in the journal Nanoscale by the EPN partners: the Life Sciences group in the ILL, with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and the Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS).

There's a huge pent - up demand for ways of seeing large objects with nanoscale precision.»

It doesn't rely on nanoscale patterns, but instead is a simple sandwich of alternating nanometer - thick layers of silver and titanium dioxide, the construction of which is routine.

The resulting measurements have altered dramatically our understanding of nanoscale interactions, and have provided new insights into altering material properties.

To see if they could speed things up, biochemist Jenny Cappuccio and colleagues at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2 put a diverse mix of common bacterial species in a calcium chloride solution in the lab and then pumped in CO2.