Sentences with phrase «of hybrid materials»

Even though the constituent materials generally have poor intrinsic properties, the superior extrinsic properties of the hybrid materials are the result of the arrangement of hard and soft phases in complex hierarchical architectures, with dimensions spanning from the nanoscale to the macroscale.

The institute foresees that materials science will increasingly include the combining of biotechnology and nanotechnology and the creation of hybrid materials that are neither organic nor inorganic.

Yang developed a method of fabricating a photocatalyst composed of a hybrid material.

Instead, the new system uses molecular switches that change shape in response to light; when integrated into the PCM, the phase - change temperature of the hybrid material can be adjusted with light, allowing the thermal energy of the phase change to be maintained even well below the melting point of the original material.

Analyses revealed that, compared with activated carbon, production of the hybrid material consumed less energy («embodied energy») while leaving a much lower carbon footprint.

The new experiment was conducted by researchers from QuTech at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands and Microsoft Research, with samples of the hybrid material prepared at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Not exact matches

, Senior Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, developed new hybrid materials in his doctoral research project for use in the manufacture and modification of thin - film composites.

Hybrid mattresses usually refer to a combination of latex, memory foam, or innerspring mattresses, but can include other materials and combinations as well.

Hybrid mattresses are a combination of memory foam and innerspring mattresses but can include other materials and combinations as well (like latex and memory foam).

With a comfort layer made of materials such as polyurethane foam, latex, or gel, and a support core designed with coils or a firmer polyurethane foam, hybrid mattresses top our best mattress reviews for all sorts of sleepers.

Saratoga Partnership President Marty Vanags and Director of Business Retention & Expansion Shelby Schneider are meeting one - on - one with executives from companies across the microelectronics supply chain, including manufacturers, materials and equipment suppliers, and in new vertical markets such as flexible hybrid electronics, system integration and the Internet of Things.

The focus of this investigation is a hybrid material consisting of a thin nickel film on a vanadium oxide substrate; this hybrid material exhibits magnetic properties unlike any other magnetic material.

The hybrid between a simple magnetic material and a transition - metal oxide provides a «window» to understand the metal - to - insulator transition and offers dramatic tunability of magnetic properties.

In addition to fabricating the hybrid membrane at the Molecular Foundry, the scientists analyzed the material at beamline 12.2.2 of the Advanced Light Source.

Proximity effects in hybrid heterostructures, which contain distinct layers of different materials, allow one material species to reveal and / or control properties of a dissimilar species.

The new battery design is a hybrid between flow batteries and conventional solid ones: In this version, while the electrode material does not flow, it is composed of a similar semisolid, colloidal suspension of particles.

For these reasons, supercapacitive materials hold great promise for a wide variety of energy storage needs, particularly in computer technology and hybrid or electric vehicles.

And advances in materials technology, such as hybrid ceramic / steel, can help boost the temperature — and therefore increase the efficiency and lower the amount of CO2 emissions — of new coal - fired power plants.

And that means the material challenge posed by rare earths won't be solved anytime soon, particularly as more wind farms cover the land, compact fluorescent lightbulbs and light - emitting diodes proliferate, and greater numbers of hybrid or electric vehicles hit the road.

In the natural world, many of the structural materials (wood, shells, bones, etc.) are hybrid materials made up of simple constituents that are assembled at ambient temperatures and often have remarkable properties.

The small tags in each ear indicate that this individual had been previously captured and genetic material was sampled as part of a study to understand the dynamics of the hybrid zone in southern California.

This suggests that color - tuning could be achieved in these 2D hybrid perovskites by changing sheet thickness as well as composition via the synthesis of related materials.»

The inside back cover image of the Nov. 20, 2017 issue of Advanced Materials illustrates how ion migration in a hybrid perovskite crystal affects solar cell performance in different areas of the crystal.

Using X-ray beams and lasers, researchers studied how a new promising class of solar cell materials, called hybrid perovskites, behaves at the nanoscale level during operation.

Research scientists at INM have combined the benefits of organic and inorganic electronic materials in a new type of hybrid inks.

Hybrid perovskites are crystalline materials made of a mixture of both inorganic and organic ions.

In an effort to help develop a sustainable domestic supply of rare earth elements and lessen the United States» dependence on China for materials that are vital to the production of electronics, wind turbines, and many other technologies, two researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a method of extracting rare earths from the drive units and motors of discarded electric and hybrid cars.

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 paper by polymer scientists Soo - Young Park and A-Ra Cho of Kyungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea, describes a method to create a type of so - called «hybrid» film, composed of both inorganic and organic materials.

Researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Organic Chemistry laboratories have developed material which offers much cheaper alternative to the one which is currently being used in hybrid solar cells.

«Therefore,» said Park, «acid - free methods of synthesizing organic - inorganic hybrid materials are needed for optical thin - film applications.»

«We envisioned them as new hybrid biomaterials for solar energy harnessing, self - repairing materials [and] chemical detectors of pollutants, pesticides, [and] fungal and bacterial infections.»

«These materials are quantum hybrid materials, possessing physical properties of both organic semiconductors and inorganic semiconducting quantum wells.

The success of the reported DNA programmable assembly required expertise with hybrid (soft - hard) materials and exquisite nanopatterning and lithographic capabilities to achieve the requisite spatial resolution, definition and fidelity across large substrate areas.

Having a magnetic material that can store and process information would enable new forms of hybrid storage and processing capabilities.

Material scientists expect the new multifunctional properties of hybrid nanostructures will transform the development of high - performance devices, including batteries, high - sensitivity sensors and solar cells.

«This paper shows the simple synthesis of a new porous hybrid material, obtained by using low cost and by - product materials,» says the lead author, Dr. Elza Bontempi from the University of Brescia, Italy.

A new class of low - cost and sustainable hybrid materials could possibly displace activated carbon as the preferred choice for reducing wastewater and air pollution.

The new material is also obtained from a novel system of obtaining hybrid materials in a single step.

'' [Our work] demonstrates a new approach for efficient energy conversation from a dc electric field to coherent, high - power and electrically tunable terahertz emission by using hybrid semiconductors,» said Andrii Iurov, a researcher with a dual appointment at the University of New Mexico's Center for High Technology Materials and the City University of New York.

To address the terahertz gap, the team created a hybrid semiconductor: a layer of thick conducting material paired with two thin, two - dimensional crystalline layers made from graphene, silicene (a graphene - like material made from silicon instead of carbon), or a two - dimensional electron gas.

«The direct growth of anchored MoSoy nanocrystals on graphene sheets may enhance the formation of strongly coupled hybrid materials with intimate, seamless electron transfer pathways, thus accelerating the electron transfer rate for the chemical desorption of hydrogen from the catalyst, further reducing the energy required for the reaction to take place,» Sasaki said.

«This class of new hybrid materials could be custom designed for many functional materials including applications in nano - technologies»

In another manuscript, the strange choice of materials matched the bizarre contorted hybrid figures seen swarming across the page margins.

The new hybrid material matches the performance of the existing technologies at a fraction of the cost.

The hybrid material combined the advantages of each component: an abundance of edges where chemical reactions take place and excellent conductivity between GQDs provided by the graphene base.

«This work demonstrates the unique capability of micro-to-nanoscale topographies of the crumpled graphene - Au nanoparticles — higher density, three - dimensional optically active materials — that are further enhanced by the formation of hot spots, bringing the nanoparticles closer,» explained Juyoung Leem, a graduate student and first author of the study, «Mechanically Self - Assembled, Three - Dimensional Graphene?Gold Hybrid Nanostructures for Advanced Nanoplasmonic Sensors,» published in Nano Letters.

Unlike regular photoinitiators, the novel hybrid nanoparticles developed by Prof. Banin and Prof. Magdassi present tunable properties, wide excitation window in the UV and visible range, high light sensitivity, and function by a unique photocatalytic mechanism that increases printing efficiency while reducing the amount of materials required to create the final product.

This gives unprecedented potential to understand and control the inorganic - organic interfaces that are relevant to hybrid inorganic - biological materials,» says Academy Professor Hannu Häkkinen from the Nanoscience Center at the University of Jyväskylä.

Such hybrid devices — part living, part nonliving — would have to be made of materials that wouldn't be rejected by the body, and would need some kind of interface that enabled them to deal directly with blood flow.