Sentences with phrase «nanowire material»

Back in May, it was rumored that Apple was sampling silver nanowire material from multiple display suppliers.

Wang and his team looked at creating a nanowire material that was flexible, easily manufactured and environmentally friendly and could cool with an electric field safe for human use.

Not exact matches

This change is important when it comes to applications, since the structure and shape of the nanowires have important consequences for the properties of the resulting material.

This change is of relevance to applications, as the structure and shape of the nanowires considerably affect the properties of the resulting material.

Independently of VLS growth, the vapour deposited material also attaches itself directly to the side walls, particularly in the lower region of the nanowire.

«We demonstrate that other asymmetric materials, such as asymmetric nanowires, thin films, and quantum dots of a single material can also be high - performance thermal rectifiers, as long as you have lateral confinement,» Ruan said.

That could lead to new materials like nanowires, which could help to make miniature versions of electrical components like batteries, and better drugs.

Nanowires for LEDs are made up of an inner core of gallium nitride (GaN) and a layer of indium - gallium - nitride (InGaN) on the outside, both of which are semiconducting materials.

Last year, the same team led by USC Viterbi electrical engineering professor Chongwu Zhou developed a successful anode design using porous silicon nanowires that allowed the material to expand and contract without breaking, effectively solving the pulverization problem.

Their laser's target was an array of nanowires made out of a material called deuterated polyethylene.

The editable supercapacitor is made of strengthened manganese dioxide nanowire composite material.

In an article published online March 10 in the journal Advanced Materials, Dr. Moon Kim and his colleagues describe a material that, when heated to about 450 degrees Celsius, transforms from an atomically thin, two - dimensional sheet into an array of one - dimensional nanowires, each just a few atoms wide.

Tiny cages with nanowire bars could block light from entering or exiting, but allow other materials through — which might be useful for biomedicine

In addition, the material is highly flexible and could be woven into fabrics, enabling wearable forms; individual niobium nanowires are just 140 nanometers in diameter — 140 billionths of a meter across, or about one - thousandth the width of a human hair.

When compared to regular clothing material, the special nanowire cloth trapped body heat far more effectively.

Scientists now report in ACS Applied Nano Materials a hybrid material consisting of imitation pearl combined with silver nanowires that works as a heater, with the added benefit of high flexibility, suggesting a potential role in wearable devices.

The composite material showed excellent heating properties, producing heat as electric current was passed through the silver nanowires, even when bent repeatedly or when rolled up into a tube.

DNA and viruses are already commonly in use to build nanowires of inorganic materials, he says.

Firefighters entering burning buildings, athletes competing in the broiling sun and workers in foundries may eventually be able to carry their own, lightweight cooling units with them, thanks to a nanowire array that cools, according to Penn State materials researchers.

A study in the journal Nature Materials details the creation of a nanowire - based technology that absorbs solar energy at comparable levels to currently available systems while using only 1 percent of the silicon material needed to capture photons.

The germanium nanowires produced by this method have superior electronic properties compared to silicon and can be used as high - capacity anode material for lithium - ion batteries, but the nanowires were previously too expensive and difficult to produce.

Earlier evidence for the quasiparticles was found in one - dimensional nanowires, in which a Majorana fermion sat motionless at each end of the wire, like a particle bound to a particular spot within a material.

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.

Another tweak could replace the silicon channel with «nanowires,» super-thin wires made of various semiconductor materials (including, it so happens, lowly silicon itself).

The breakthrough from physicists at the University of Sussex has been to combine silver nanowires with graphene — a two dimensional carbon material.

An inserted organic material works as a spacer layer to control the energy transfer from the nanowire into the metal.

In the notice, Chang Ming Li from the Institute for Clean Energy & Advanced Materials (ICEAM) at Southwest University in China, states that there is «insufficient evidence to conclusively» identify the composition of the nanowire array described in the article, which «severely undermines the validity of the reported conclusions.»

When a nanowire made from a semiconductor is connected to a superconductive material, researchers see a so - called zero - bias peak in the case of certain magnetic fields and electrical charge.

In the case of Ge - based semiconductors a lot of work was done on the direct tailoring of the material geometry (nanowires, phononic crystals, nanoporous materials, etc.) achieving for example materials with ultra-low thermal conductivity.

[1] M.Zervos et al., Broad compositional tunability of indium tin oxide nanowires grown by the vapor liquid solid mechanism», Applied Physics Letters Materials, 2, p. 056104 (2014).

The material is a essentially a woven fabric of plastic fibres and high - temperature superconducting nanowires.

He described the piezotronic transistor - first introduced by Zhong Lin Wang at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007 - and some of the research on nanowire arrays and 2D materials currently underway at his lab in Purdue University.

Detailed modeling by Gao's group indicates that the pronounced anelasticity in nanowires is because it is much easier for atoms to move through nanoscale materials than through bulk materials.

Researchers from North Carolina State University and Brown University have found that nanoscale wires (nanowires) made of common semiconductor materials have a pronounced anelasticity — meaning that the wires, when bent, return slowly to their original shape rather than snapping back quickly.

Here we show that single - crystalline ZnO and p - doped Si nanowires (NWs) can exhibit anelastic behaviour that is up to four orders of magnitude larger than the largest anelasticity observed in bulk materials, with a recovery time - scale in the order of minutes.

A retracted paper in Journal of Electronic Materials: RETRACTED ARTICLE: Investigation of Co-Doped ZnO Nanowires by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Simulation Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11664-017-5578-6

UC Irvine invents nanowire battery material with off - the - charts charging capacity.

The wallpaper is made from fire - resistant materials like graphene oxide and hydroxyapatite nanowires.