Sentences with phrase «novel use of materials»

Kim is currently the head of design for the startup electric car company Faraday Future, and his design for the BMW i3 is often described as being «loft - like,» with its novel use of materials and a use of space that feels more architectural than conventional auto design.

The art director is also known for use novel use of materials.

The achievement was made possible by a novel use of a material called a photonic crystal.

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We are developing novel seed, leaf and algal - based materials for more intensive and efficient production of plant oils for both industrial and nutritional uses.

The 2004 paper, reporting on a novel method of synthesizing new materials through the use of RNA catalysts, has been investigated by two universities and NSF.

CLIP enables a very wide range of material to be used to make 3D parts with novel properties, including elastomers, silicones, nylon - like materials, ceramics and biodegradable materials.

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Manchester, U.K.; Imperial College, London; University of California San Diego; and the National Institute of Material Science (NIMS), Japan, have demonstrated that confined surface phonon polaritons within hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) exhibit unique metamaterial properties that enable novel nanoscale optical devices for use in optical communications, super-resolution imaging, and improved infrared cameras and detectors.

Caffeine is well - known for its ability to help people stay alert, but a team of researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital has now come up with a novel use for this chemical stimulant — catalyzing the formation of polymer materials.

What sparked such fascination was the mind - bending notion itself: Smith, Schurig, and their coauthor John Pendry of Imperial College London proposed that by using a novel class of composite materials, they could manipulate light so as to render an object invisible to the eye.

It's more efficient than previous devices, the researchers say, because its two cells absorb more light than single - layer solar devices, because it uses light from a wider portion of the solar spectrum, and because it incorporates a layer of novel materials between the two cells to reduce energy loss.

«New soft material could reduce complications for women suffering from urinary incontinence: Researchers have developed a novel implantable material which could reduce the number of debilitating side - effects that occur as a result of using a material that is too rigid for surgical treatment of incontinence.»

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed a novel implantable material which could reduce the number of debilitating side - effects that occur as a result of using a material that is too rigid for surgical treatment of incontinence.

Cellulose is extracted from wood to make paper, is the basis of cellophane, and has also recently been used by materials scientists developing novel plastic materials.

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Materials Science and Technology Division have developed a novel one - step process using, for the first time in these types of syntheses, potassium superoxide (KO2) to rapidly form oxide nanoparticles from simple salt solutions in water.

Researchers from North Carolina State University, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a novel approach to materials characterization, using Bayesian statistical methods to glean new insights into the structure of materials.

Using one of the world's most powerful soft X-ray microscopes — the Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope (STXM) and X-ray Emission beamlines — at the Canadian Light Source in tandem with one of the world's highest resolution aberration - corrected transmission electron microscopes housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Banerjee and collaborators from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the UIC and Argonne National Laboratory were able to observe the unique electronic properties of their novel vanadium pentoxide and directly prove magnesium - ion intercalation into the material.

A team of MIT researchers has used a novel material that's just a few atoms thick to create devices that can harness or emit light.

This study opens up new potentials for tailoring the properties of biological materials to enhance their properties for use in novel applications.

Using ultrafast laser pulses that speed up the data recording process, Caltech researchers adopted a novel technique, ultrafast electron crystallography (UEC), to visualize directly in four dimensions the changing atomic configurations of the materials undergoing the phase changes.

The Board also recommends specific investment areas, including «novel alternative energy solutions, water filters that remove pathogens at the point - of - use, new robust building materials from locally available materials, nanotechnology for health and agriculture, and biological approaches to industrial production, environmental remediation and management.»

The novel life forms that emerged represent existing genomic material being used in novel ways to control and regulate interlinked cascades of biological pathways during development, resulting in novel body plans and / or finer tuning of existing body plans to changing phyical, chemical and biospheric selective pressures.

Tweaking plasmonic properties can lead to a myriad of novel materials with diverse uses.

He has extended DGU to a wide range of nanomaterials and used these purified materials to create novel electronic, plasmonic and energy storage devices.

«It's an exciting property to have in a material because you could conceivably use the different magnetic orientations to encode data in a novel kind of magnetic memory,...»

«It's an exciting property to have in a material because you could conceivably use the different magnetic orientations to encode data in a novel kind of magnetic memory, or to nucleate new kinds of superconducting states that might be useful in a quantum computer.»

Cancer Institute research highlights include innovative studies to develop individualized approaches for treatment and prevention of lung cancer; collaboration between medical and materials science researchers to develop treatments for various types of leukemia using nanotechnology to target only cancer cells; and development of novel therapeutics to treat metastatic melanoma using an approach that regulates the processes leading to tumor development.

In the present review, we summarize recent advances in the use of engineered repeat proteins in the self - assembly of novel materials, nanostructures and biosensors.

Research in the Bredas group focuses on computational materials chemistry: computational methods are used as a tool to uncover the properties of novel advanced materials, understand their chemistry and physics, and derive an integrated understanding of the intrinsic molecular - and nano - scale processes in a variety of emerging applications (such as solar cells or low - power displays), especially in the fields of organic electronics, photonics, and information technology.

Paul O ′ Brien is distinguished for his many original contributions to chemistry and materials science, notably in the use of novel molecularly defined precursors from which to prepare important functional electronic or optical materials in well - defined forms.

Moreover, as pointed out by Johnston et al. [17], the increasing importance of Ag - NPs in the development of novel consumer materials intended for human exposure requires more in depth studies on toxicity mechanisms, as well as, on how silver particles interact with biological molecules and how different surface modifications can be used to reduce or eliminate possible toxic effects.

While there, he was recruited by Rear Admiral John Godfrey, the director of Naval Intelligence, to be his personal assistant, and it is in this role that Fleming obtained the material he later used in his novels.

Sweet makes use of collage that includes actual childhood photographs of White, as well as other archival materials, like rough drafts of manuscripts, as she unfolds the life and works of the man that children fell in love with through novels like Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little.

I've already found great ways to make use of the material from those previous novels I wrote for future books, and I'm sure even if this novel now isn't salable whatever story comes next will be the same.

From a picture book using bear hair and other earthen materials in its illustrations to a biography written in graphic - novel format, these books show girls and women exploring exciting ways to solve practical dilemmas through the courage of their convictions.

The materials used during these trainings — such as the educational graphic novel about the persecution of the Jews: De Zoektocht (The Search), the Free2choose discussion programme and new Anne Frank graphic biography — were all developed by the Anne Frank House.

Always one for making do with found materials — usually filched from skips — Harman makes novel use here of large - scale double - glazing units.

The artist toys with scale and material, using novel technology to alienate immediately recognizable objects from their typical contexts, and engendering a uniquely modern, emphatically American sense of uncanny.

Baxter frequently picks up materials she's never used before, searching for novel ways to engage the histories of sculpture, jewelry, weaponry or drapery.

Constructing work from materials such as lottery tickets, trophies, travel posters, romance novels, art fair booths, and art shipping crates, Ghost of a Dream transforms these items, supposedly drained of their use - value, into sculpture, video, and two - dimensional meditations on material and symbolic value.

For Sachs, a bricoleur is one «who hobbles together functional contraptions out of already given or collected materials, which he re-tools and re-signifies into new objects with novel uses, but more importantly, which he regenerates into a new, oscillating syntax: one of loss, gain, and more than anything, one of play.»

Whether foreshadowing a harmonious melding of marine life with manmade devices or offering a glimpse of the surreal cyborgs that will come to wipe us out, the installation makes novel and theatrical use of materials, ensuring that it's one of the fair's most memorable works.

This attempt is novel in the sense that it is the first time a type of material has been brought into the creation process not for its functional use, but rather, for its natural aesthetics.

Between 1958 and 1960, Rauschenberg made drawings for each of the 34 cantos of Dante Alighieri's 13th - century poem Inferno by using a novel technique to transfer photographic reproductions from magazines or newspapers onto paper, and then working further with other materials.

«Many examples of twentieth - century art reveal a new expressive ability or a new direction based on the use of a novel technique or material», writes E. A. Carmean.

«Many examples of twentieth - century art reveal a new expressive ability or a new direction based on the use of a novel technique or material.

Isamu Noguchi's use of novel modern materials in «Lunar» and, in particular, his early use of sculptural light is a significant contribution.

The annual award established in 2006 recognizes visionary ideas - projects that through the novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments.

From our all - in - one devices like our smart phones that act as phones, MP3 players, alarm clocks, GPS devices, and so on to our digitalization of materials from photos to novels and school text books, we are able to reduce how much oil we use in the production and shipping of products.

The breakthrough will help scientists to develop ways to use the incredible powers of hydrogen in novel materials for hydrogen storage, in fuel cells, or in other alternative energy applications.

The founders» ambition and novel use of natural materials is a welcome change in a world where too many phones just look the same.