Sentences with phrase «nanoscale architectures»

Group leader Kevin Yager explains that the mission of his group is to fabricate and measures the properties of nanoscale architectures with interesting electronic behaviors.

Amadei, as a member of Professor Chad Vecitis» lab at Harvard University, had been working with graphene oxide for water purification applications, while Stein was experimenting with carbon nanotubes and other nanoscale architectures, as part of a group led by Brian Wardle, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.

The effectiveness of biological systems and nanomachines in capturing light and transporting energy is owing to the highly ordered nanoscale architecture of photoactive molecules.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a new graphene - based supercapacitor that uses a nanoscale architecture to double its energy and power performance compared to commercially - available alternatives.

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Examples include nacre (mother - of - pearl), tooth enamel, bamboo and the dactyl clubs of mantis shrimp, all of which are nanoscale arrangements of hard platelets connected by soft matrix materials and arranged in overlapping brick - and - mortar, bouligand or other architectures.

Even though the constituent materials generally have poor intrinsic properties, the superior extrinsic properties of the hybrid materials are the result of the arrangement of hard and soft phases in complex hierarchical architectures, with dimensions spanning from the nanoscale to the macroscale.

«Assembling nanoscale features into billets of materials through multi-leveled 3 - D architectures, you begin to see a variety of programmed mechanical properties such as minimal weight, maximum strength and super elasticity at centimeter scales.»

Natural materials, such as trabecular bone and the toes of geckoes, have evolved with multiple levels 3 - D architectures spanning from the nanoscale to the macroscale.

Researchers have developed hierarchical metallic metamaterial with multi-layered, fractal - like 3 - D architectures to create structures at centimeter scales incorporating nanoscale features.

Washington State University researchers have developed a unique, 3 - D manufacturing method that for the first time rapidly creates and precisely controls a material's architecture from the nanoscale to centimeters.

It means individual nanoscale regions in complex oxide materials can behave as self - organized circuit elements, which could support new multifunctional types of computing architectures.