Sentences with phrase «of nano materials»

There are some good people working hard to advance the toxicology and analytical science to support risk assessment of nano materials, many of whom know that we need to keep the cats in the bag until we know what we are doing because one or two high - profile cases of illnesses arising due to nanotechnology will cause the public to lose faith in what is a very promising technology.

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DPS Innovations, Shanghai Jion Point Information Technology, ST, Thinkgo Technology, Visualnet and Voyanic showcased a range of new active and intelligent label and packaging applications such RFID / NFC labels, nano materials and specialist inks.

The inside of the GreenLife features a «nano - ceramic» coating, which is a water - based material made from titanium and suspended silicate micro-particles.

«We envision that these photo - responsive polymer - capped gold nanoparticles could one day serve as nano - carriers for drug delivery into the body using our robust and reversible process for assembly and disassembly,» said Zhiqun Lin, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering.

Better understanding the high - temp behaviors of these and other 2 - D materials could help engineers design sturdy nano - sized electronics.

This nano - bio approach is believed to increase the breadth of the solar spectrum that is used to make energy and is expected to contribute to the development of biomimetic materials with enhanced photosynthetic activity and improved stability towards oxidative degradation.

At a meeting of the Materials Research Society here yesterday, scientists described a pair of techniques for wiring up nano - sized chips — one that uses electric fields, the other DNA.

Dr Khan's research combines materials sciences, nano coatings within the field of surface engineering, heat and fluids within heat transfer and thermodynamics, and storage and corrosion engineering.

This team of researchers including those from ICFO (Spain), University of Minho (Portugal) and MIT (USA) used stacks of two - dimensional materials, called heterostructures, to build up a new nano - optical device.

«We can now take linear nano - materials and direct how they are organized in two dimensions, using a DNA origami platform to create any number of shapes,» explains NYU Chemistry Professor Nadrian Seeman, the paper's senior author, who founded and developed the field of DNA nanotechnology, now pursued by laboratories around the globe, three decades ago.

The vision of the centre is to become a world - leading facility for the characterisation and analysis of molecular materials at the nano and microscale.

While the UW - Madison and Georgia Tech groups have recently made other significant strides in synthesizing material structures that offer greater reactivity, Mavrikakis sees the nano cage structure has opened up a whole new avenue of investigation in synthesizing new catalysts.

Materials researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology initially came across the nano cage as a potentially powerful approach, and Mavrikakis» group used its quantum mechanical modeling expertise to synthesize cages with a tiny amount of platinum.

In recent years, carbon nanotubes have emerged as a promising material of electron field emitters, owing to their nano - scale needle shape and extraordinary properties of chemical stability, thermal conductivity and mechanical strength.

Using tiny nanocrystals made of semiconducting materials, the scientists developed a method in which a single nanocrystal can be accurately positioned on top of a specially designed and carefully fabricated nano - antenna.

The new material, made from a common plastic called polyethylene, is a thin ply riddled with nano - sized holes that allow the release of infrared radiation, water vapor (that is, sweat), and air.

The research was carried out by experts in synthetic and theoretical chemistry, materials and electron microscopy and builds on Professor Khlobystov's concept of carbon nano test tubes (World's tiniest test tubes, Guinness Book of World Records 2005), where the nanotube acts as a container for molecules.

The totally new manufacturing method also works on uneven surfaces — and as the properties of nano - structures depend crucially on the material, this opens the door to completely new applications.

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have made an object disappear by using a composite material with nano - size particles that can enhance specific properties on the object's surface.

The base for the material are mostly silicates, but in volume it consists of more than 90 % of air - filled pores with sizes in the nano range.

Being able to determine magnetic properties of materials with sub-nanometer precision would greatly simplify development of magnetic nano - structures for future spintronic devices.

However, chemical engineers at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), in Mexico, developed a new technology based on thermosensitive nanoparticles (nano - hydrogels) to use these materials in the field of biomedicine, as an alternative to achieve controlled release of anticancer drugs.

When manufacturing nano structures, the understanding, analysing and handling of materials present major challenges.

«The present success in selective fabrication of ABA and ABC trilayer graphene would widen the feasibility of graphene - based nano - electronic devices with variable layer numbers and stacking sequences,» conclude the researchers in their study published in the journal NPG Asia Materials.

In the vast realm of functional nano - and micro-scale materials, the realization of mono - and bi-layer assemblies on surfaces is of paramount relevance.

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

Materials with specific properties at the nano - and micro-scale level are heavily sought after due to the broad spectrum of applications in electronics, photovoltaics and biomimetic material synthesis.

The proof - of - concept device, which has been presented today, 3 May, in IOP Publishing's journal Semiconductor Science and Technology, takes advantage of the latest nano - scale materials and processes to emit green and red light separated by a wavelength of 97 nanometres — a significantly larger bandwidth than a traditional semiconductor.

The precise control of the starting nanocrystals» shape and surface chemistry and the optimization of the nano - ink and screen - printing process are the key factors giving rise to unprecedented performances in the printed thermoelectric materials.

But amyloid also carries unique characteristics that may lead to the development of new composite materials for the nano processors and data storage of tomorrow, and even make objects invisible.

Sandwiched inside is a two - part material: nano - PE that is coated on one side with IR - absorbing (and emitting) black carbon, and on the other side an ultrathin layer of copper that only weakly absorbs and emits IR.

At the heart of soft materials, governing their overall properties and capabilities, are the interactions of nano - sized components.

«This is a groundbreaking advance in the 3 - D architecturing of materials at nano - to macroscales with applications in batteries, lightweight ultrastrong materials, catalytic converters, supercapacitors and biological scaffolds,» said Rahul Panat, associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, who led the materials at nano - to macroscales with applications in batteries, lightweight ultrastrong materials, catalytic converters, supercapacitors and biological scaffolds,» said Rahul Panat, associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, who led the materials, catalytic converters, supercapacitors and biological scaffolds,» said Rahul Panat, associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, who led the Materials Engineering, who led the research.

Research problems that are just out of reach today but that could be made accessible by advances in electron microscopy include studies of the little pores that form in our cells walls and which are centrally important in the regulation of all life processes as well as new nano - structured materials that are ultra-light yet strong, allowing reduced energy consumption in vehicles.

«Nanoparticles for 3 - D printing in water open door to advanced biomedical materials: New type of nano - photoinitiator holds promise for environmentally friendlier printing processes.»

SUBSTANCES IN SOLUTION AND SOLID MATERIALS: Two young researchers from University of Copenhagen have received funding - DKK 10 million each - to build up research groups to study the relationship between the structure of materials at the nano - scale and their properties.

A combinatorial approach is employed to evaluate / develop advanced electrode materials, ranging from single perovskites to double and triple layered perovskites, and to modify the surface of existing electrodes with more active nano - structured catalysts.

The engineering of thermal conductivity in semiconducting materials is a central issue in the development of modern nano - and microtechnologies, and low thermal conductivity is important in materials used in technology products as it provides thermal insulation and thus the reduction of heat transfer, ensuring the products do not overheat.

sensors of nerve cell electrical or chemical activity, either biologically or nano - material based

The latest investigations on the thermal properties of silicon, the most common material in electronics, micro - and nano - electro - mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) and photonics, have pointed to nanostructuring as a highly efficient approach to acoustic phonon engineering [1 - 3].

XPhoton - assisted synthesis and processing of materials in nano - microscale (MATERIAL PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATION)

The research revolved around a nano - construction consisting of two components: an extremely thin silver thread, and a 2D material called tungsten disulfide.

Madsen, Hirschberg, and their research team are exploring a small solution to this big problem: employing macrophages, the aforementioned, material - ingesting white blood cells, to transport nano - sized particles of therapeutic gold to surgical resection sites.

In addition to this specific compound, obtained results and the proposed modeling will be also helpful for other type of materials with nano - inclusions.

It is extremely challenging to grow large single crystals of anatase, and most of the applications of this material are in the form of nano crystals.

The 2012 Kavli Prize laureates were selected for making fundamental contributions to our understanding of the outer solar system, the differences in material properties between nano - and larger scales, and how the brain receives and responds to sensations such as sight, sound and touch.

These films allowed for experiments that were far too difficult to carry out on single or tangled aggregates of nanotubes and caught the attention of Tokyo Metropolitan physicist Kazuhiro Yanagi, who studies condensed matter physics in nano materials.

EnerG2 also said that its manufacturing approach has enabled the integration of advanced nano - scale silicon into EnerG2's best - in - class hard carbon materials, providing a cohesive carbon - silicon nanocomposite anode material for significantly higher performance.

Beyond being a fancy nano material, graphene plays a central role in the development of endogenous hardware aspects of Malaysia's Internet of Things aspirations or the now evolved Internet of Nano - Things (IoNT).

This year's laureates were selected for making fundamental contributions to our understanding of the outer solar system, the differences in material properties at nano - and larger scales, and how the brain receives and responds to sensations such as sight, sound and touch.