Sentences with phrase «nanostructures from»

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.

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

While Berkland was working on his Ph.D. in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, faculty members there started a company that incorporated Berkland's research on fabricating micro - and nanostructures from biodegradable polymers.

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.

* Top Image: Adapted with permission from Elaboration of Nanostructured Biointerfaces with Tunable Degree of Coverage by Protein Nanotubes Using Electrophoretic Deposition

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.

Previous research from the Capasso lab used nanostructures sensitive to polarization to produce two different images encoded in the metasurface.

A physicist by training whose work on the optical properties of semiconductors yielded a Masters degree, a Ph.D., and a 3 - year postdoc, Emiliani has moved from optical spectroscopy to microscopy and from semiconductors to semiconductor nanostructures and, eventually, to biological systems.

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.

The insect's wings sport an azure hue that comes not from pigments, like most colors found in living things, but from tiny nanostructures on the wings» surface (SN: 6/7/08, p. 26).

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.

Metamaterials are artificial, i.e. engineered nanostructures, whose electrical permittivity and magnetic permeability diverge significantly from those of conventional materials.

Szilágyi will spend the next couple of years working on complex nanostructures using atomic layer deposition at the University of Helsinki with a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship from the European Commission.

«We are looking to integrate these nanostructured films with optoelectronic devices to demonstrate that we can simultaneously improve both the optical and electronic properties of devices operating at wavelengths from the visible all the way to the far infrared,» Wasserman said.

The team used titanium dioxide, a ubiquitous material found in everything from paint to sunscreen, to create the nanoscale array of smooth and high - aspect ratio nanostructures that form the heart of the metalens.

«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.

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.

The device works by using periodic nanostructures, 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, to separate the different frequencies of light from each other.

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

The bandwidth - tunable silicon filter uses periodic nanostructures to filter a single channel from all input frequencies.

A thin 3D photonic crystal with a diamond - like nanostructure is illuminated by white light from any incident direction (black arrow).

One, A123 Systems in Watertown, Mass., is a three - year - old firm that builds batteries that use electrodes made from nanostructured iron phosphates, an innovation developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), according to Whittingham.

To fill this gap, Bharathi Srinivasan and co-workers from the A * STAR Institute of High Performance Computing have developed a computational approach that sheds light on the self - assembly of these nanostructures on multi-sided, or polygonal, nanowires.

Nanostructure patterns can prevent light from reflecting off the solar cell's surface.

The title of the paper is «A New Class of Renewable Thermoplastics with Extraordinary Performance from Nanostructured Lignin - Elastomers.»

Professor Laura Cipolla, from the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences at the University of Milano - Bicocca, added: «Based on our background on the chemical modification of bio - and nanostructured materials, proteins, and carbohydrates, we designed a new chemical approach in order to force the organic component polycaprolactone to stay together in a stable way with the inorganic component silica.»

By «crumpling» to increase the surface area of graphene - gold nanostructures, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign have improved the sensitivity of these materials, opening the door to novel opportunities in electronics and optical sensing applications.

«From the linear properties, one calculates the nonlinear polarization and the mode of the nanostructure at the second harmonic,» says Kevin O'Brien, co-lead author of the Nature Materials paper and a member of Zhang's research group.

«Nonlinear stage - scanning confocal microscopy is critical because it allows us to rapidly measure the nonlinear emission from thousands of different nanostructures while minimizing the potential systematic errors, such as intensity or beam pointing variations, often associated with tuning the wavelength of an ultrafast laser,» O'Brien says.

A jumble of nanostructures on this material's surface enables it to absorb light from many angles.

Scientists have discovered a completely new type of opal formed by a common seaweed which harnesses natural technology by self - assembling a nanostructure of oil droplets to control how light reflects from its cells to display a shimmering array of colors...

In a recent publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers from Dynamic Biosensors and the Kurt - Schwabe - Institut Meinsberg have demonstrated the persistent electrical actuation of a large DNA - origami nanostructure on a gold microelectrode.

Abstract: Together with colleagues from the USA, scientists from the University of Bonn and the research institute Caesar in Bonn have used nanostructures to construct a tiny machine that constitutes a rotatory motor and can move in a specific direction.

This is particularly true for electrons and phonons transport in semiconductors where a lot of efforts were done to synthetize nanostructures with properties radically different from their bulk counterpart.

It gets its strength from the way its atoms are arranged to form nanostructured phases.

Why it matters: The demand for miniaturization of electronic devices will benefit from a more in - depth understanding of nanostructured materials.

For this latest study of DNA nanostructures, Ren used an electron - beam study technique called cryo - electron microscopy (cryo - EM) to examine frozen DNA - nanogold samples, and used IPET to reconstruct 3 - D images from samples stained with heavy metal salts.

Researchers will be able to study samples ranging from engineered nanoparticles and nanostructures to naturally occurring biological polymers, tissues and plant cells.

The samples in the latest experiment were formed from individual polygon gold nanostructures, measuring about 5 nanometers across, connected to single DNA - segment strands with 84 base pairs.

She investigated and helped explain the fundamental interactions between electrons and phonons in nanostructures, and by the year 2000 was able to isolate the Raman spectra from individual nanotubes.

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.

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.»

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«We learnt from these nanostructures that nonclose - packed arrays should thus be employed to make photonic films with full colour tuneability.»

Inspired by the natural nanostructures that keep the insect's eyes from being shiny, a team from the University of Central Florida has developed an antireflective film for phone screens.

A jumble of nanostructures on this material's surface enables it to absorb light from many angles.