Sentences with phrase «nanotube arrays»

While most current hydrogen production processes split hydrogen from natural gas — an inefficient technique that consumes energy and produces greenhouse gases — Grimes» method would rely on thin films made of titanium iron oxide nanotube arrays that could split water under natural light.

«Carbon nanotube arrays could actually be a platform that could target that size of bioparticle.»

He was also the recipient of the Purdue College of Engineering's «Outstanding Dissertation Award» for his research on photoacoustic characterization of carbon nanotube array thermal interfaces.

Now, in a study published in the Journal of Microengineering and Nanotechnology, the researchers have given the nanotube array the ability to trap certain particles.

Wardle says that the nanotube array is extremely versatile, as the carbon nanotubes may be manipulated mechanically, electrically, and optically, while the polymer coatings may be chemically altered to capture a wide range of particles.

Researchers Eric Meshot, left, and Ngoc Bui evaluate the uniformity of a carbon nanotube array covering the entire area of a 4 - inch wafer.

Not exact matches

Arrays of silicon nanotubes have many potential applications, including for solar - energy harvesting, photonics, and biological processes such as drug delivery.

The RPI team made the paper battery by first growing an array of carbon nanotubes on a silicon surface and then covering the array in dissolved cellulose (the main constituent of paper).

Optical rectennas operate by coupling the light's electromagnetic field to an antenna, in this case an array of multiwall carbon nanotubes whose ends have been opened.

The hitch, so far, has been that the most promising tubes — single - walled nanotubes (SWNTs), consisting of one layer of carbon atoms arrayed like rolled - up chicken wire — can be made only by the thimbleful and can cost up to $ 2000 a gram.

With this method, they created a three - dimensional array of permeable carbon nanotubes within a microfluidic device, through which fluid can flow.

The team integrated a three - dimensional array of carbon nanotubes into a microfluidic device by using chemical vapor deposition and photolithography to grow and pattern carbon nanotubes onto silicon wafers.

They then grouped the nanotubes into a cylinder - shaped forest, measuring about 50 micrometers tall and 1 millimeter wide, and centered the array within a 3 millimeter - wide, 7 - millimeter long microfluidic channel.

An ordered array of carbon nanotubes was continuously wrapped around a polymeric core.

The Challenge: Superstrong carbon nanotubes have a wide array of potential applications, including lighter bulletproof vests and more responsive touch screens, but they have a tendency to clump together, which makes them difficult to work with.

But a bedeviling array of imperfections in these carbon nanotubes has long frustrated efforts to build complex circuits using CNTs.

Researchers made arrays of vertically aligned nanotubes that were topped with shorter nanotube bits, like branching treetops.

«Densest array of carbon nanotubes grown to date.»

In this application, a nanotube film with an array of electrodes can be used as an electrically configurable diffraction grating for an infrared spectrometer, allowing the wavelength of light to be scanned without moving parts.