Sentences with phrase «nanoscale engineering»

With this in mind, it's good to see Climate Progress (via Cleantechnica) taking note of advances in nanoscale engineering of «quantum dots» that could result in big breakthroughs in the efficiency of solar panels and (via EcoGeek) advances in using carbon nanotubes to improve lithium batteries.

If someone wants to build a new sensor, say, to understand how cells change their activity, they'll know to go talk to the people who do nanoscale engineering at Lawrence Berkeley's Molecular Foundry, who know a lot about that.

Nadrian C. Seeman conceived the idea of using DNA as a building material for nanoscale engineering, rather than as the genetic material.

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

The theory could drive advances in nanoscale engineering for data - and energy - storage technologies.

M.I.T.'s Robert Langer is being recognized for his efforts to fight cancer and other diseases by melding nanoscale engineering with science and medicine

Not exact matches

Kaloyeros resigned as president in October but is still seeking to assume his old job as a nanoscale science and engineering professor.

UAlbany is currently creating its own engineering school that could technically absorb what is now called the Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

Now human engineers are learning to design and synthesize novel biochemical devices such as nanoscale factories, biological circuits and even molecular computers.

Senior author Jelena Vuckovic, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, has been working for years to develop various nanoscale lasers and quantum technologies that might help conventional computers communicate faster and more efficiently using light instead of electricity.

Engineers are now mimicking the beetle's back and reproducing similar hydrophobic - hydrophilic surfaces, materials and products at the nanoscale.

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.

Strain can be used to engineer unusual properties at the nanoscale.

State of the Tech Engineers in Japan used a mold to replicate the nanoscale structure of the moth's eye in an acrylic resin film.

«The concept brings together an assortment of existing nanoscale technologies and combines them in a new way,» said Dr. Joseph S. Friedman, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UT Dallas who conducted much of the research while he was a doctoral student at Northwestern University.

«If you can strain graphene by design at the nanoscale, you can artificially engineer its properties.

For years, scientists and engineers have synthesized materials at the nanoscale level to take advantage of their mechanical, optical, and energy properties, but efforts to scale these materials to larger sizes have resulted in diminished performance and structural integrity.

More generally, a greater understanding of the Casimir effect and how to manipulate it should benefit engineers working at the nanoscale.

The team simulated friction at the nanoscale by first engineering two surfaces to be placed in contact: an optical lattice, and an ion crystal.

The lab developed state - of - the - art fabrication techniques for soft materials engineering artificial chemical networks at the nanoscale that, altogether, would be capable of producing a wide variety of patterns.

The findings could pave the way for engineering the electronic properties of TCI surfaces towards novel functionalities at the nanoscale.

Dr. Bryan Glaz, chief scientist of ARL's Vehicle Technology Directorate said «an important motivation for this work is the desire to engineer new structures, starting from the nanoscale, to enable advanced rotorcraft concepts that have been proposed in the past, but were infeasible due to limitations in current composites.

«The use of tiny cells for efficiency testing has prompted some to question comparison of perovskite solar cells with other established photovoltaic technologies,» said Nitin Padture, professor of engineering at Brown, director of Brown's Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation, and one of the senior authors of the new research.

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have shown that stem cell behaviour can be modified by manipulating the nanoscale properties of the material they are grown on — improving the potential of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering as a result.

In addition, their pyroelectric properties could be used to engineer microscale and nanoscale thermometers that sense temperature variation, rather than the absolute temperature of a cell.

But they've had to go to temperatures from 100 to 150 degrees Celsius, and that heating process causes a number of problems,» said Nitin Padture, professor of engineering and director of the Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation.

The DIY Nano app allows families to experience and learn about nanoscale science, engineering, and technology at home!

By combining local light - induced heat sources with sensitive nanoscale thermometry, it may also be possible to engineer biological processes at the subcellular level.

The task of identifying nanoscale defects is a very time consuming process for engineers working with media and flat substrates.

Combining the technical strengths of two Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science (KIC) postdoctoral fellows, as well as measuring tools from the lab of electrical and computer engineering professor Farhan Rana, the group reports remarkably clear observations of excitons — electrically neutral quasiparticles — in bilayer graphene.

Park's AFM provides highest data accuracy at nanoscale resolution, superior productivity, and lowest operating cost thanks to its unique technology and innovative engineering.

After implementing the mf - OCT using advanced optical engineering, we will conduct a pilot clinical studies to validate the nanoscale structures and the oxygen metabolic alterations are present in glaucoma patients and normal vision patients.

The focus of today's sessions at NSF's [US National Science Foundation] meeting of nanoscale science and engineering grantees focuses on putting the science to practical use.

Foresight Institute established the Feynman Grand Prize in 1996 to motivate scientists and engineers to design and construct a functioning nanoscale robotic arm with specified performance characteristics.

NanoDays is a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering and its potential impact on the future.

University of Wisconsin — Madison engineers have created a nanoscale device that can emit light as powerfully as an object 10,000 times its size.

This nanotechnology signature initiative coordinates the nanoscale science, engineering, and technology communities around the fundamental, interconnected elements of collaborative modeling, a cyber-toolbox, and data infrastructure to capitalize on American strengths in innovation, shorten the time from research to new product development, and maintain U.S. leadership in sustainable design of engineered nanoscale materials.

Sue Clark, WSU's Regents Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, and Neil Ivory, professor of chemical engineering, will be part of a ACE team studying how nanoscale nuclear materials react in various chemical environments.

The NNCI sites provide researchers from academia, small and large companies, and government with access to university user facilities with leading - edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation, and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering and technology.

Nanotechnology encompasses science, engineering, and technology at the nanoscale, which is about 1 to 100 nanometers.

Xan Hu, assistant research professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Missouri, believes his team can improve those factors with nanoscale cubic crystal technology.

There are plenty of studies and speculations around what might — or might not — be risky about nanoscale science and engineering.

PhysOrg.com points to this UCLA news release: «Scientists engineer nanoscale vaults to encapsulate «nanodisks» for drug delivery ``

In a study to be published in the May 23 print issue of the journal Small (and currently available online [abstract]-RRB-, they demonstrate the ability to package drug - loaded «nanodisks» into vault nanoparticles, naturally occurring nanoscale capsules that have been engineered for therapeutic drug delivery.

Encompassing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, nanotechnology involves imaging, measuring, modeling, and manipulating matter at the nanoscale.

«We're taking low - cost, inkjet - printed graphene and tuning it with a laser to make functional materials,» said Jonathan Claussen, an Iowa State University assistant professor of mechanical engineering, an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and the corresponding author of the paper recently featured on the cover of the journal Nanoscale.

«Optomechanics is an area of research in which extremely minute forces exerted by light (for example: radiation pressure, gradient force, electrostriction) are used to generate and control high - frequency mechanical vibrations of microscale and nanoscale devices,» explained Gaurav Bahl, an assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois.

I follow with great interest, any developments regarding the health effects of pesticides, heavy metals, nanoscale materials (as found in personal care products and cosmetics, for example) and genetically engineered foods.

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.

He is a member of the university's interdisciplinary Nanoscale Materials and Device Research Group, where his team engineers biomolecular tools made from DNA.