Sentences with phrase «nanostructures for»

There is enormous interest in molecular self - assembly and the development of biological systems to form smart nanostructures for biotechnology (so - called «bottom - up fabrications»).

Highly Branched Cobalt Phosphide Nanostructures for Hydrogen - Evolution Electrocatalysis.

They conclude their report, «This study of dynamic structural evolution directly from carbon fragments offers one platform for advancing understanding of edge's roles in formation and transformation of carbon nanostructures for potential electronic, mechanical, and thermal applications.»

Schüth talked about the progress made in controlling the properties of nanostructures for catalytic materials.

Optical traps provide a valuable non-contact approach for manipulating nanostructures for biological, photonic and material science studies.

Graphene nanostructures for lithium batteries enable rapid recharge of electric vehicles and consumer electronic products

«This work demonstrates the unique capability of micro-to-nanoscale topographies of the crumpled graphene - Au nanoparticles — higher density, three - dimensional optically active materials — that are further enhanced by the formation of hot spots, bringing the nanoparticles closer,» explained Juyoung Leem, a graduate student and first author of the study, «Mechanically Self - Assembled, Three - Dimensional Graphene?Gold Hybrid Nanostructures for Advanced Nanoplasmonic Sensors,» published in Nano Letters.

«Color - coding sensor: Nanostructures for contactless control.»

The team is exploring ways to utilize the nanostructures for various catalytic and biomedical applications and to refine their technique to create gold films.

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

Not exact matches

• Nano - C, a Westwood, Mass. - based developer of nanostructured carbon for energy and electronics applications, raised $ 11.5 million in funding, including a $ 3 million tranche from Ray Stata, cofounder and current chairman of Analog Devices.

If scientists «start too early to specialize in biomaterials, there is a risk that they... would know all the possible applications but they will maybe not have the basis to be able to develop new ideas or new systems,» says Christine Dupont - Gillain, who leads the Nanostructured Surfaces for Cell Engineering group at the Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences of the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.

These results show that understanding how the nanostructures are formed could lead to the ability to design materials with properties ranging from high surface area to high strength for batteries, nuclear reactors, and other energy applications.

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

Though it enables precise atom - by - atom fabrication of nanostructures, the process is very slow because the low density of adsorbed gas molecules in the vacuum environment limits the amount of material available for fabrication.

This new lipid exchange envelope penetration (LEEP) process for incorporating the nanostructures involves wrapping CNTs or nanoparticles with highly charged DNA or polymer molecules, enabling them to penetrate into the fatty, hydrophobic membranes that surround chloroplasts.

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.

This solution yielded a new problem, however: the method of producing nanostructured silicon was prohibitively expensive for commercial adoption.

ARPA — E also gave $ 4.4 million in October 2009 to a group led by physicist George Hadjipanayis of the University of Delaware to create a nanostructured version of the neodymium iron boron magnet that eliminates the need for as much neodymium.

Nanostructures that iridesce may often just be a way birds or butterflies can create an unusual color rather than a way to produce iridescence for its own sake.

After securing $ 67 million from leading venture capital firms and big companies, Rive Technology started to commercialize nanostructured zeolite catalysts for the production of diesel and gasoline.

The shape of the crystals, together with their increased reactivity, enables the consolidation of homogeneous nanostructured mixed oxides as intermediates towards very dense nuclear fuels for advanced reactors.

A nanostructured composite material developed at UC Santa Cruz has shown impressive performance as a catalyst for the electrochemical splitting of water to produce hydrogen.

«Nanostructured metal coatings let the light through for electronic devices.»

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.

In 1994, while a PhD student at Harvard University, Yang proposed a method for preparing 2D hybrid perovskite nanostructures and tuning their electronic properties but never acted upon it.

«We believe this is the first example of 2D atomically thin nanostructures made from ionic materials,» says Peidong Yang, a chemist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and world authority on nanostructures, who first came up with the idea for this research some 20 years ago.

at The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, 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 study, published in the October 28 Early Online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first to demonstrate the application of this methodology to the design of self - assembled nanostructures, and shows the potential of machine learning and «big data» approaches embodied in the new Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering at Columbia.

Researchers under the direction of KIT have now demonstrated that carbon nanotubes are suited for use as on - chip light source for tomorrow's information technology, when nanostructured waveguides are applied to obtain the desired light properties.

Fischer, along with collaborator Michael Crommie, a UC Berkeley professor of physics, captured these images with the goal of building new graphene nanostructures, a hot area of research today for materials scientists because of their potential application in next - generation computers.

Providing fundamental insights into the interactions between molecules is important for the development of new so - called nanostructured materials.

«Team highlights work on tuning block polymers for nanostructured systems.»

«This should help us to create new engineered nanostructures, such as bonded networks of atoms that have a particular shape and structure for use in electronic devices.

Fischer is developing new techniques for making graphene nanostructures that display unusual quantum properties that could make them useful in nano - scale electronic devices.

The international group of researchers from the Leibniz Institute Dresden (IFW), the Technische Universität Dresden, the Polish Academy of Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University and the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, an Institute of Basic Science (Korea) used pores in mono - layer graphene to form free standing 2D iron (Fe) single atom thick membranes.

This represents highly promising potential for the use of these nanostructures in ultra-fast rotating sensors,» added Professor Mathias Kläui.

Due to this unique control over matter on the nanometer - scale, DNA nanostructures have also been considered for applications in molecular biology and nanomedicine.

The researchers have coated DNA nanostructures with virus capsid proteins in order to significantly improve their transport to human cells; this could find uses for example in enhanced drug delivery.

«Nowadays, software and techniques to design and simulate DNA nanostructures are extremely powerful and user - friendly, and thus, researchers can easily construct their own DNA - objects for various uses.

But to Prof. Hendrik Dietz and Florian Praetorius from TUM, DNA is also an excellent building material for nanostructures.

«Kinetic traps are among the bottlenecks for producing more complicated DNA nanostructures.»

The surprise finding means that pure water microdroplets can serve as microreactors for the production of gold nanostructures.

Nanostructured materials have shown extraordinary promise for electrochemical energy storage, but these materials are usually limited to laboratory cells with ultrathin electrodes and very low mass loadings.

Such omnidirectional reflectance for dielectric structures is associated with three - dimensional photonic crystal nanostructures that sustain a so - called complete photonic band gap.

And minute changes can direct self - assembly into myriad defined nanostructures, making them ideal hosts for a range of different molecules.»

«Nature's blueprint for fracture - resistant cement: Based on the nanostructure of the sea urchin spines, scientists develop fracture - resistant cement.»

The ability to design new protein nanostructures could have useful implications in targeted delivery of drugs, in vaccine development and in plasmonics — manipulating electromagnetic signals to guide light diffraction for information technologies, energy production or other uses.

«For this work, we focused on creating nanostructures using photosensitive polymers, which are commonly used in lithography,» Zhang says.

Nanostructured materials containing ordered arrays of holes could lead to an optoelectronics revolution, doing for light what silicon did for electrons