Sentences with phrase «nanoscale features»

The approach, which produces multiple levels of 3 - D hierarchical lattices with nanoscale features, could be useful anywhere there's a need for a combination of stiffness, strength, low - weight, high flexibility — such as in structures to be deployed in space, flexible armors, lightweight vehicles and batteries, opening the door for applications in aerospace, military and automotive industries.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have discovered novel ways to extend the capabilities of two - photon lithography (TPL), a high - resolution 3D printing technique capable of producing nanoscale features smaller than one - hundredth the width of a human hair.

Jan. 3, 2018 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have discovered novel ways to extend the capabilities of two - photon lithography (TPL), a high - resolution 3D printing technique capable of producing nanoscale features smaller than one - hundredth the width of a human hair.

The lens can resolve nanoscale features separated by distances smaller than the wavelength of light.

An alternative technique called near - field scanning optical microscopy can also etch nanoscale features.

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.

«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.»

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

The scientists added in their report, «The precise control over interface geometry offered by our method enables the design of two - component protein nanomaterials with diverse nanoscale features, such as surfaces, pores, and internal volumes, with high accuracy.»

The challenge is to develop scalable routes for producing bulk quantities of soft magnetic material while retaining the unique nanoscale features responsible for the desirable soft magnetic properties.

In an age of nanotechnology advances ALD is an ideal tool for depositing on nanoscale features.

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.

«We can control the shape of the structure itself, what we call the macroscale features; and the design of the catalyst, the nanoscale features, at the same time,» said Igor Slowing, a scientist in heterogeneous catalysis at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory.

This work is part of a larger NIST effort to supply measurement tools that enable the semiconductor industry to continue doubling the number of devices on a chip about every two years and to help other industries make products with nanoscale features.

His discovery of a way to overcome the resolution limits of fluorescence microscopy has given research laboratories around the world the ability to discern the nanoscale features of tissues and cells.