Sentences with phrase «nanoscale properties»

Did you know that the nanoscale properties of the lotus leaf are the inspiration for many easy - clean and water - repellant materials?

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.

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In materials research, the ability to analyze massive amounts of data — often generated at the nanoscale — in order to compare materials» properties is key to discovery and to achieving industrial use.

«We can now start to understand the properties down to the nanoscale.

«Chemists report new insights about properties of matter at the nanoscale.»

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Manchester, U.K.; Imperial College, London; University of California San Diego; and the National Institute of Material Science (NIMS), Japan, have demonstrated that confined surface phonon polaritons within hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) exhibit unique metamaterial properties that enable novel nanoscale optical devices for use in optical communications, super-resolution imaging, and improved infrared cameras and detectors.

The feat opens up new possibilities in silicon carbide because its nanoscale defects are a leading platform for new technologies that seek to use quantum mechanical properties for quantum information processing, sensing magnetic and electric fields and temperature with nanoscale resolution, and secure communications using light.

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.

«Materials change properties when you enter into this new world,» says James Yardley, director of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at Columbia University.

«Fast - spinning spheres show nanoscale systems» secrets: Lab demonstrates energetic properties of colloids in spinning magnetic field.»

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

Such materials take advantage of the fact that very small deviations on the nanoscale can significantly alter the material properties.

This research opens new pathways for probing other electromechanical phenomena on the nanoscale that have not been studied before, such as charge trapping and properties of dielectric materials.

In the nanoscale world, rods, spheres and dots made from the same material have dramatically different chemical and physical properties.

They might also be useful for nanoscale sensors: They're so small that even if a single molecule sticks to them, it can change the conducting properties, allowing you to sense the presence of individual molecules.

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

«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.»

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.

Silver is popular in jewellery because it is unreactive and tarnishes slowly, yet at the nanoscale it shows strong antibacterial properties.

«The way to create viable, profitable technology in the nanoscale regime, and build billions of copies of tiny devices, is to harness nature's properties of self - assembly,» says nanotechnologist Uzi Landman of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US.

Theoretically, macroscopical three - dimensional graphene assemblies should retain the properties of nanoscale graphene flakes.

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

«Showing that this material has order at the nanoscale will likely lead to new work on how to expand these ordered domains, and potentially manipulate the material's mechanical properties,» Irving says.

Now, Lin Wu and colleagues at the Institute of the A * STAR Institute of High Performance Computing have modeled the optical and plasmonic properties of nanoscale ribbons of a new phase of gold — the 4H hexagonal phase (see image)-- produced and characterized by collaborators at other institutes in Singapore, China and the USA.

Many foods have a natural nanostructure — the proteins in milk form nanoscale clusters, for example — that can be altered on the nanoscale to enhance their properties.

By studying the connections between skin cells using AFM and other techniques that probe cells at the nanoscale, Sinha and his colleagues report that pathogenic antibodies change structural and functional properties of skin cells in distinct ways.

The photoreceptors are organized «in a periodic fashion at the nanoscale that allows them to also «see» the polarized properties of light,» he said.

«By changing the surface properties like the shape of the substrate at the nanoscale level, we tricked the stem cells to behave differently,» explains co-author Dr Julien Gautrot, from QMUL's School of Engineering and Materials Science and the Institute of Bioengineering.

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.

The CFN provides state - of - the - art capabilities for the fabrication and study of nanoscale materials, with an emphasis on atomic - level tailoring to achieve desired properties and functions.

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.

Container's material properties affect the viscosity of water at the nanoscale.»

The scientists spent some time trying to affect the optical properties of carbon nanotube films with an electric field, with little success, said Itkis, a research scientist at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

«The JEOL Center for Nanoscale Solutions will be the most advanced electron microscopy cluster available for probing the atomic structure and properties of materials,» says JEOL USA President Peter Genovese.

This was revealed by PNNL scientists, who set out to understand the information content encoded in nanoscale chemical images, recorded by taking advantage of the unique properties of localized surface plasmons.

In recent years, carbon nanotubes have emerged as a promising material of electron field emitters, owing to their nanoscale needle shape and extraordinary properties of chemical stability, thermal conductivity, and mechanical strength.

These studies will provide significant insights into nanoscale catalysts, sensors and electrochromic applications such as smart glass where light or heat transmission properties of the glass are changed by applying voltage.

We now have a range of new techniques that allow us to study crystal growth at the nanoscale, helping us to understand and control this growth to produce materials with specific properties.

The researchers» real feat was in finding a way to produce these sensors in nanoscale dimensions while carefully controlling their structure and, by extension, their properties.

Nadrian C. Seeman, of New York University in the U.S., is the founding father of structural DNA nanotechnology, a field that exploits the structural properties of DNA to use it as a raw material for the next generation of nanoscale circuits, sensors, and biomedical devices.

Being able to put atomic, molecular, and nanoscale species where we want them provides new understanding of quantum properties and allows us to create new structures from scratch with a wide range of potential applications.

A nanoscale tip moving over a surface can not only give all kinds of information about the physical positions of atoms but also give data on their chemical properties and behavior.

Scientists have known that materials can behave differently at the nanoscale than they do in larger quantities, and that customizing their size and shape can enhance their properties for specific uses.

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Over more than five decades, Dresselhaus has made multiple advances in helping to explain why the properties of materials structured at the nanoscale can vary so much from those of the same materials at larger dimensions.

Paul McEuen, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics and director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science and the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP), studies the electrical and mechanical properties of carbon nanomaterials.

Fast - spinning spheres show nanoscale systems» secrets: Rice University lab demonstrates energetic properties of colloids in spinning magnetic field February 7th, 2018

Other useful properties of synchrotron light are: - high energy beams to penetrate deeper into matter - small wavelengths permit the studying of tiny features, e.g. bonds in molecules; nanoscale objects - synchrotron beams can be coherent and / or polarised, permitting specific experiments - the synchrotron beam can be made to flash at a very high frequency, giving the light a time structure.

Did you know that at the nanoscale materials take on unusual properties that differ from the bulk?

COSMIC, a next - generation X-ray beamline now operating at Berkeley Lab, brings together a unique set of capabilities to measure the properties of materials at the nanoscale.