Sentences with phrase «nanowires produced»

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.

«Although this process is already quite well established, it has not been possible until now to specifically control the crystal structure of the nanowires produced by it.

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With the images produced by ECT, the team was the first to see how electron transport proteins were distributed in the membrane to form the nanowires.

The nanowires are produced by a company in Sweden and this new information can be used to tweak the layer structure in the nanowires.

In an attempt to break that barrier, researchers have taken a small step toward producing nanowires and nanotubes directly on silicon chips.

By programming cells to produce different types of curli fibers under certain conditions, the researchers were able to control the biofilms» properties and create gold nanowires, conducting biofilms, and films studded with quantum dots, or tiny crystals that exhibit quantum mechanical properties.

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.

An experiment that, by design, was not supposed to turn up anything of note instead produced a «bewildering» surprise, according to the Stanford scientists who made the discovery: a new way of creating gold nanoparticles and nanowires using water droplets.

Nanowires embedded in fabric produce small currents of electricity from the wearer's normal movement.

It was confirmed when they used a strain of Geobacter genetically altered to prevent it from producing nanowires, and the process did not work.

THE shimmering sea mouse, Aphrodita aculeata, may hold a key to creating nanoscale electronics, making it possible to produce nanowires 100 times longer than existing methods allow — and for a fraction of the price.

Dr Matthew Large, University of Sussex, flexes a screen made from acrylic plastic coated in silver nanowires and graphene to illustrate the kind of touch screens that can potentially be produced using the new approach.

Cytochrome conducts electricity and is known to line fine hairs called «nanowires» that are produced by both bacteria.

«Prior experimental approaches based on semiconductor nanowires on superconductors have produced inconclusive signals which could also be attributed to other effects,» Qiu said.

This produces nanowire filaments that are a thousand times thinner than the diameter of a human hair, typically about 300 nanometres or less.

Berkeley Lab researchers using a bioinorganic hybrid approach to artificial photosynthesis have combined semiconducting nanowires with select microbes to create a system that produces renewable molecular hydrogen and uses it to synthesize carbon dioxide into methane, the primary constituent of natural gas.