Sentences with phrase «nanoscale structures»

These nanoscale structures provide safe haven to the microbes and fungus that facilitate fertile soil creation, while sequestering carbon for many hundred if not thousands of years.

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For example, metamaterials, arrays of nanoscale structures, can bend light around an object to make it appear invisible.

The term «nanomaterial» refers to nanoscale materials, or materials that contain nanoscale structures internally or on their surfaces.

Professor Dresselhaus showed that these links can be changed for nanoscale structures, since it is possible to separately adjust the electrical and thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes.

To fabricate and characterize nanoscale structures, researchers have been utilizing AFM to find practical solutions since the development of the first commercial AFM from Park Systems.

Sculpting and analysing nanoscale structures are at the core of nanoscience.

First, mf - OCT is capable of detecting nanoscale structures down to several tens of nanometers, which is the size of macromolecules.

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.

We will developed a novel imaging techniques called multi-functional optical coherence tomography (mf - OCT) that is capable of quantifying nanoscale structures of neural fiber layers and ganglion cells, and the oxygen consumption of the retina, to detect the two early manifestations of glaucoma.

On the horizon, nanoscale structures may one day be marshaled to hunt cancer cells in the body or act as robot assembly lines for the design of new drugs.

Researchers have been able to improve the efficiency of solar cells by coating the cell surface with extremely small nanoscale structures.

Crystal seen growing in slow motion one atom at a time A method for slowing down crystal growth could make it possible to build customisable nanoscale structures useful in water purifiers and cloaking materials

He is also interested in the potential to create more complicated nanoscale structures using ice.

To do this, they have developed high - throughput and combinatorial computational methods that allow nanoscale structures to be visualized with relatively low - cost optical techniques.

And since these are nanoscale structures, he also began thinking that quantum physics might play a role.

A method for slowing down crystal growth could make it possible to build customisable nanoscale structures useful in water purifiers and cloaking materials

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.

The imaging technique's high resolution of soft nanoscale structures makes it possible to probe collagen samples, providing insights for improved designs of artificial skin or tissue.

The vortex could be shrunk further with a redesigned mask, potentially allowing single atoms to be trapped inside it and moved around to modify nanoscale structures.

BLUE HALO Bees can easily learn to recognize a bluish tinge called a blue halo created by sloppy nanoscale structures (located in the dark center circle, and seen at right) on such flowers as Ursinia speciosa.

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.

EGGSPOSED A chicken eggshell seen up - close shows a highly variable nanoscale structure.

The new material contains a nanoscale structure that guides light waves through the metal - coated glass.

While a chicken eggshell is only about a third of a millimeter thick, its nanoscale structure isn't consistent throughout.

The nanoscale structure of the membrane was determined using Science and Technology Facilities Council's ISIS Neutron and Muon source.

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.

«Now that we have a method to determine the key physical parameter, charge formation efficiency, we're exploring the interrelation between it and the nanoscale structure of the organic photovoltaic device to clarify the mechanism of the charge formation,» noted Moritomo.

Stress also changes the ways oxidative compounds diffuse throughout the nanoscale structure of a material.

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.

The catalyst's novelty lies in its nanoscale structure, consisting of copper nanoparticles embedded in carbon spikes.

Not exact matches

«The new Park Nanoscience Center at SUNY Polytechnic Institute provides researchers with greater access to Park Systems» cutting - edge AFM nanoscopic tools, featuring reliable and repeatable high - resolution imaging of nanoscale cell structures in any environment without damage to the sample.»

To mimic this variability, researchers fabricated steel with thin, alternating nanoscale layers of different crystal structures, some of which were just unstable enough to morph a bit under stress.

The confined electronic structure of nanoscale materials has increasingly been shown to induce behavior quite distinct from that of bulk analogs.

In contrast, in graphite, striking coherent transients of the structure were observed in both image and diffraction, directly measuring, on the nanoscale, the longitudinal resonance period governed by Young's elastic modulus.

Schematic illustration of cells (blue mountain - like shapes) on top of nanoscale mushroom - like structures with silicone dioxide stems and gold caps, which have the potential to detect cell proliferation in real - time.

Our nickel oxide anode only transforms into metallic nickel through nanoscale inhomogeneities or defects in the surface structure, a bit like chinks in the anode's armor.»

«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.

Building nanoscale electronic components often involves growing the tiny structures in separate layers and transferring them onto a chip one by one.

Now, they've extended that work by designing a computer - controlled process to not only create dense stainless steel layers, but to more tightly control the structure of their material from the nanoscale to micron scale.

«It's a terrific paper,» says Rice University chemist Dan Colbert, who sees the study as an important advance toward creating nanoscale molecular structures.

A: I'm working on using solid - state defects in diamonds as magnetic field sensors, with the goal of using them as little nanoscale MRI machines that can study the structure and dynamics of single biological molecules (e.g., proteins).

Tuning the material structure at the nanoscale level can be really hard to achieve — but what if we had small particles, which assemble all by themselves, creating the required structure?

In the meantime, nanoscale carbon structures are being developed for fast - charging batteries, efficient solar cells, and implantable drug - delivery capsules.

Like human - made motors, the structure of these nanoscale machines determines their power and the bacteria's swimming ability.

Such sophisticated multilayer structures can be used as a versatile platform for the investigation of various phenomena at the nanoscale.

The deformation under the enormous pressure plus the aging alters the basic structure of metals at the nanoscale — or distances measured in billionths of a meter.

As part of the IEEE International Conference on RFID, Bauer - Reich will discuss research at NDSU's Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering to develop on - metal RFID tags that use the structure of the tagged object as the antenna.

Taking inspiration from the biological building methods used in cells and the ECM, the Bioinspired Soft Matter Unit, led by Prof. Zhang, has designed and synthesized a nanoscale toolkit of molecules that can interact together to assemble complex molecular structures.

«The next step will be investigation of the spin - phonon interaction in nanoscale thin films and structures made of this important antiferromagnetic material.»