Sentences with phrase «nanostructures with»

Plasmonic nanostructures with conductive polymers have also been suggested as one kind of electronic paper.

Park Systems» advanced AFM know - how and a self - developed and especially accurate feedback control system in their AFM products allow their customers to both image and manipulate nanostructures with increased accuracy and with higher productivity.

It can be used to control which molecules link with others to form polymers, so we can create very tightly packed three - dimensional nanostructures with metamaterial properties.

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.

«In our demonstration, we obtained optical images of aluminum nanostructures with 46 nanometer resolution, then validated the non-invasiveness of CLAIRE by imaging a conjugated polymer film.

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

Coupling nanostructures with significantly larger conductors proved difficult because they have very different impedances.

Halas said one way to lower manufacturing costs would be to incorporate high - efficiency light - gathering plasmonic nanostructures with low - cost semiconductors like metal oxides.

As a general technique, the nanotweezers are applicable to a wide range of metal, semiconductor, polymer and dielectric nanostructures with charged or hydrophobic surfaces.

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.

The research «opens up a new possible way that one could pursue in integrating nanostructures with microstructures,» says Charles Lieber, a nanotechnologist at Harvard University.

To see the way the lithium - ions reacted with the nickel oxide, the scientists used a suite of custom - written software to digitally reconstruct the three - dimensional nanostructures with single - nanometer resolution.

Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign have developed a simple new fabrication technique to create beautiful and complex 3 - D micro - and nanostructures with many advantages over 3 - D printing.

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.

Non-destructive synchrotron X-ray techniques offered by the ESRF allow industry scientists to correlate a material's micro - and nanostructure with its properties.

A photonic crystal is any nanostructure with a regular pattern that influences the motion of photons.

Not exact matches

The first one, which began after 2000, involves the development of passive nanostructures: materials with steady structures and functions, often used as parts of a product.

* 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.

He conducted the research with Jeff Urban, Facility Director of the Inorganic Nanostructures Facility at the Molecular Foundry, and a team of scientists that included staff at the Advanced Light Source.

The NB activity in Alberta is far ranging, with such research as self - assembled nanostructures (M. J. Brett), single - cell cancer analysis (L. M. Pilarski), computational modeling (D. Wishart), micro-total analysis systems or lab on a chip (D. J. Harrison), cell identification and manipulation (K. Kaler), and microsystems and medical diagnostics (Backhouse).

Now investigators at the University of Dortmund in Germany have figured out how to unlink them under normal physiological conditions, potentially offering a controllable way to construct complicated nanostructures or devices that interact with the body.

As a result, the researchers then engineered a second nanostructure which was suffused with cisplatin.

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.

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.

Many of the shimmering colors in a butterfly's wings are produced not with pigments, like the melanin that tints our skin, but with nanostructures (pdf).

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.

They're one of the key ingredients in a new way to craft a spectrum of structural colors — hues created when light interacts with special nanostructures.

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.

He led the research with co-corresponding author Ranjan Mannige, a postdoctoral researcher at the Molecular Foundry; and Ron Zuckermann, who directs the Molecular Foundry's Biological Nanostructures Facility.

«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.

They did so by reworking the light bulb's metal light emitter into a flat sheet and flanking it on either side with nanostructured mirrors.

The nanostructures, like leaves, are varied in shape, with tiny rises and falls,» he said.

«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.

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.

Wachsman and his research colleagues have also published details in Science on a potential path toward SOFCs that operate at temperatures as low as 350 degrees C with a new design that features high - conductivity electrolytes and a specially nanostructured electrode.

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.

The hairs end in tiny nanostructures that interact at the atomic level with molecules on the surface the gecko is trying to grip.

«With this nanostructured electrolyte, we have created materials with good mechanical strength and good ionic conductivity at room temperature.&raWith this nanostructured electrolyte, we have created materials with good mechanical strength and good ionic conductivity at room temperature.&rawith good mechanical strength and good ionic conductivity at room temperature.»

«With this work, we have shown that DNA nanostructures can be assembled in a water - free solvent, and that we can mix water with the same solvent to speed up the assemWith this work, we have shown that DNA nanostructures can be assembled in a water - free solvent, and that we can mix water with the same solvent to speed up the assemwith the same solvent to speed up the assembly.

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

Metalenses — flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light — promise to revolutionize optics by replacing the bulky, curved lenses currently used in optical devices with a simple, flat surface.

To create the anodes, the team used a three - step process that involved crushing and grinding the glass bottles into a fine white power, a magnesiothermic reduction to transform the silicon dioxide into nanostructured silicon, and coating the silicon nanoparticles with carbon to improve their stability and energy storage properties.

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.

Now, researchers led by Xiaoyu «Rayne» Zheng, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech have published a study in the journal Nature Materials that describes a new process to create lightweight, strong and super elastic 3 - D printed metallic nanostructured materials with unprecedented scalability, a full seven orders of magnitude control of arbitrary 3 - D architectures.

Graphene nanostructures can form the transistors, logic gates, and other elements of exquisitely tiny electronic devices, but to become practical they will have to be mass produced with atomic precision.

The sensors are built with carbon nanotubes and two - and three - dimensional, textile nanostructures grown at the University of Arkansas.

The IBM team fabricated single crystal nanostructures, such as nanowires, nanostructures containing constrictions, and cross junctions, as well as 3 - D stacked nanowires, made with so - called III - V materials.

Although glass with the nanostructures appears opaque, tests showed that most of the scattered light makes its way through the glass.