Sentences with word «nanostructured»

He has conducted original research in analytical chemistry and sensing with regard to chemical vapors; biological toxins and pathogens; radionuclides sensing and radiochemical analysis; and the application of nanostructured materials in analtyical chemistry and catalysis.

In this work, we describe the development of a large scale, comprehensive Monte Carlo simulator to model thermal transport in nanostructured materials with a large and arbitrary degree of hierarchical disorder.

This research field is searching for various nano - systems that will express novel functions by the interaction of nanostructures with unique characteristics, and is engaged in research to research to utilize those new nano - systems systematically.

Bank is finding ways to grow and use crystalline semiconductor nanostructures for use in new materials and devices for electronics and optoelectronics.

The DOE Early Career Award will enable Collins and members of his WSU research group to investigate how organic molecules assemble into nanostructures using the Advanced Light Source at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

A promising discovery for advanced cancer therapy reveals that the efficiency of drug delivery in DNA nanostructures depends on their shapes, say researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology and the University...

Researchers create the plasma arc between two carbon electrodes, producing a hot carbon vapor composed of atomic nuclei and molecules that cool and synthesize — or condense — into particles that grow into nanostructures by bunching together.

The research team, which consists of graduates and undergraduates in Vanderbilt's interdisciplinary materials science program and department of mechanical engineering, describe this achievement in a paper titled «From the Junkyard to the Power Grid: Ambient Processing of Scrap Metals into Nanostructured Electrodes for Ultrafast Rechargeable Batteries» published online this week in the journal ACS Energy Letters.

«Engineers now understand how complex carbon nanostructures form.»

Then, depending on the initial composition of the alloy and diffusion, the liquid metal can infiltrate the alloy resulting in two interpenetrating connected phases, leading to metal nanostructures with desirable properties.

These findings, published recently by the high - impact journal Nanoscale («Tessellated gold nanostructures from Au144 (SCH2CH2Ph) 60 molecular precursors and their use in organic solar cell enhancement»), represent a game - changing innovation that holds the potential to take solar power mainstream and dramatically decrease the world's dependence on traditional, resource - based sources of energy, says Giovanni Fanchini from Western's Faculty of Science.

Shape - controlled synthesis of gold nanostructures using DNA origami molds.

The paper is titled «Chiral templating of self - assembling nanostructures by circularly polarized light.»

Jorik is a postdoc in the Brongersma lab in the department of Materials Sciences, where he is working on nanostructured surfaces for the control over light - matter interactions.

In one recent study, they obtained good results by incorporating ruthenium ions into a sheet - like nanostructure composed of carbon nitride.

The team used their «DNA - brick self - assembly» method, which was first unveiled in a 2012 Science publication when they created more than 100 3D complex nanostructures about the size of viruses.

In addition, they applied the method to thermal transport in nanostructured silicon, a system of current interest with high potential impact on thermoelectric technology, using simulations of unprecedented size.

By adding semiconducting nanoparticles to polymers, the Materials + Technologies Research Group (GMT) of the Polytechnical College of San Sebastian of the UPV / EHU - University of the Basque Country has created nanostructured composite materials with specific optical and electrical properties that vary according to size.

There is an increasing trend of using carbon based nanostructured materials as components in solar cells.

«Self - Assembled TiO2 - Graphene Hybrid Nanostructures for Enhanced Li - Ion Insertion.»

We predict energy - dependent spatially - resolved carrier distributions collected in plasmonic nanostructures with strong field inhomogeneities, and explore the possibility of tailoring materials and geometry to collect the carrier distributions needed for such applications as photochemically driven CO2 reduction and water splitting.

To build nanostructures needed for our experiments, we devote significant resources to a high - purity growth technique known as molecular beam epitaxy (MBE).

We are only beginning to learn from nature and shift our design approaches towards these that emerged in natural evolution — says Piotr Wasylczyk, head of the Photonic Nanostructure Facility at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, Poland, who led the project.

Hills, a Florida - based company, has just made a significant breakthrough with the creation of a machine that makes nanostructured fibers.

The huge total interfacial area of these 1 - D nanostructures provides a way for radiation - induced point defects to recombine in the metal, alleviating a process that also leads to embrittlement.

To study magnetism in bacteria, she applied off - axis electron holography, a specialized technique that is used for the characterization of magnetic nanostructures in the transmission electron microscope, in combination with the liquid cell.

Researchers have demonstrated a new process for rapidly fabricating complex three - dimensional nanostructures from a variety of materials, including metals.

But a Cornell team, led by chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Lynden Archer and graduate student Snehashis Choudhury, proposed in a recent study that by designing nanostructured membranes with pore dimensions below a critical value, it is possible to stop growth of dendrites in lithium batteries at room temperature.

UCSC team develops high - performance nanostructured composite catalyst for water - splitting to produce hydrogen

The team built silicon nanostructured patterns on a glass substrate, which act as superpixels.

Stanford Researchers Demonstrate a New Nanostructured Lithium Sulfide / Silicon Rechargeable Battery System with High Specific Energy

In his current position he is studying the chemistry of base metal oxide nanostructures supported on oxide film films or metal substrates.

Fischer and his colleagues set out to engineer graphene nanostructures from the bottom up, by converting linear chains of carbon atoms into extended hexagonal sheets (polyaromatic hydrocarbons), using a reaction originally discovered by UC Berkeley professor Robert Bergman.

The researchers looked at semiconductor quantum dots for this study, but SMA - STM can also be used to explore other nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes, metal nanoparticles or synthetic macromolecules.

This approach has several advantages over the metallic nanostructures previously used, as the synthetic procedures are more efficient, the components are smaller and their structures can be varied at will.

When the self - assembly of block copolymer occurs within the emulsion droplet, the confinement effect can effectively break the symmetry of a structure, resulting in the formation of some unique nanostructures which can not be obtained in bulk state.

She then did a joint Ph.D., at La Sapienza University and the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) in Florence, using optical techniques to investigate quantum effects in semiconductor nanostructures.

«We wanted to overcome limitations of current nano imaging techniques and are excited to have found a way to image complex 3d nanostructures even with intricate internal structures such as cavities,» explains Prof. Zhang.

«For years we were searching for cleverer ways to grow nanostructures with different optical properties in identical growth conditions.

The research involved engineering nanostructures containing both gold and cisplatin, a conventional chemotherapy drug.

The first reference work ever published on nanostructured biomaterials and their applications.

A group of researchers at Osaka University, succeeded in producing nanostructured gas sensor devices for detecting volatile organic compounds (VOC) in breath for the purpose of healthcare in time equivalent to or shorter than one tenth of the time required for manufacturing conventional gas sensors.

The coating is a specially engraved, nanostructured thin film that allows more light through than a flat surface, yet also provides electrical access to the underlying material — a crucial combination for optoelectronics, devices that convert electricity to light or vice versa.

Scientists at Juelich's Peter Gruenberg Institute — Functional Nanostructures at Surfaces (PGI - 3) have now, for the first time, studied whether and how the structure of the substrate material influences this doping process.

Here, we will present results about nanostructuring by LIPSS on films of poly (trimethylene - terephthalate)- block - poly (tetramethylene - oxide) copolymers.

This approach allowed them to lithographically define oxide templates and fill them via epitaxy, in the end making nanowires, cross junctions, nanostructures containing constrictions and 3 - D stacked nanowires using the already established scaled processes of Si technology.

When Felix Fischer of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) set out to develop nanostructures made of graphene using a new, controlled approach to chemical reactions, the first result was a surprise: spectacular images of individual carbon atoms and the bonds between them.