Sentences with phrase «of nanoengineers»

The collaboration of Claussen's group of nanoengineers developing printed graphene technologies and Mallapragada's group of chemical engineers working on nerve regeneration began with some informal conversations on campus.

All of that, according to Claussen's team of nanoengineers, could move graphene to commercial applications.

A collaboration of nanoengineers and electrical and computing engineers at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla combined their expertise to create the small device that detects alcohol levels and transmits that information to a cell phone or other monitoring station.

That's just one of the possible applications of new «smart fingertips» created by a team of nanoengineers.

Case in point: Shaochen Chen, a professor of nanoengineering and bioengineering at the University of California San Diego, who co-directs the university's Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Center (which is part of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine) with a medical doctor.

Limiting it could be a key to improving the quality of these solar cells,» said David Fenning, a professor of nanoengineering and member of the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego.

«This is the greatest tactile sensitivity that has ever been shown in humans,» said Darren Lipomi, a professor of nanoengineering and member of the Center for Wearable Sensors at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, who led the interdisciplinary project with V. S. Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and distinguished professor in the Department of Psychology at UC San Diego.

Not exact matches

Its electrical engineering program offers a unique specialization in nanoengineering, which (depending on whom you ask) may be the future of telecommunications.

Nanoengineers might dig into the molecular structure of battery materials to speed up how they transfer more voltage per cell.

Rajan Kumar, a co-first author on this Advanced Energy Materials paper, is a nanoengineering Ph.D. student at the Jacobs School of Engineering.

The team, including nanoengineering professor Jian Luo here at the University of California San Diego as a co-corresponding author together with Professor Martin Harmer at Lehigh University, lays out their findings in the Oct. 6, 2017 issue of Science.

«This is a significant step toward self - powered stretchable electronics,» said Joseph Wang, one of the paper's senior authors and a nanoengineering professor at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, where he directs the school's Center for Wearable Sensors.

He and nanoengineering professor Wang are leading a team focused on commercializing aspects of this work.

Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first printed battery that is flexible, stretchable and rechargeable.

«With nanoengineering, we made a unique metal - organic framework structure that solves the big problems of conductivity, and access to active sites,» says Zhao.

«This began from my core research,» said Morosan, professor of physics and astronomy, of chemistry and of materials science and nanoengineering at Rice.

Tour is the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of mechanical engineering and nanoengineering and of computer science.

Tour is the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of computer science.

Co-authors are Ok - Kyung Park, a visiting scholar at Rice and a postdoctoral researcher at Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea; Rice postdoctoral researchers Almaz Jalilov and Rodrigo Villegas Salvatierra and graduate students Luong Xuan Duy, Sandhya Susarla and Jarin Joyner; Rice alumnus Sehmus Ozden, now a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory; Robert Vajtai, a senior faculty fellow at Rice; Jun Lou, a Rice professor of materials science and nanoengineering; and James Tour, Rice's T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering; and Professor Douglas Galvão of the State University of Campinas.

«It's not only remarkable that we were able to predict a new phosphor compound, but one that's stable and can actually be synthesized in the lab,» said Zhenbin Wang, a nanoengineering Ph.D. candidate in Ong's research group and co-first author of the study.

The new phosphor — made of the elements strontium, lithium, aluminum and oxygen (a combination dubbed «SLAO»)-- was discovered using a systematic, high - throughput computational approach developed in the lab of Shyue Ping Ong, a nanoengineering professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and lead principal investigator of the study.

Significantly, the group's work furthers the fundamental understanding of the dynamic Leidenfrost droplet levitation and droplet - bouncing phenomena on hydrophobic and nanoengineered surfaces.

Wilson, the sporting goods manufacturer, has nanoengineered layers of clay to double the playing life of its Double Core tennis balls; L'Oréal uses nanoscale particles and capsules in their cosmetic creams that allow replenishing ingredients to penetrate deep into the skin; and the Australian company Advanced Powder Technology has created Zinclear, a translucent zinc oxide sunblock composed of nanoparticles as small as the tiniest known viruses.

Shahsavari is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of materials science and nanoengineering.

However, most of these circuits are built on flat, rigid surfaces that can't bend, stretch, or fold, says Darren Lipomi, a nanoengineer at the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved in the new study.

Pasquali is chair of the Department of Chemistry and a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, of materials science and nanoengineering and of chemistry.

Martí is an assistant professor of chemistry and bioengineering and of materials science and nanoengineering.

«It's clearly interesting and exciting research, but it's a first step,» cautions James Tour, a nanoengineering and materials scientist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, who is not part of the study.

«Our results show that subtle features such as this junction configuration have a significant impact on thermal transport,» said Shahsavari, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of materials science and nanoengineering.

Nanoengineers have a shiny, new tool at their disposal: laser - producing devices the size of viruses.

For the first time, researchers led by Tufts University engineers have integrated nano - scale sensors, electronics and microfluidics into threads — ranging from simple cotton to sophisticated synthetics — that can be sutured through multiple layers of tissue to gather diagnostic data wirelessly in real time, according to a paper published online July 18 in Microsystems & Nanoengineering.

Halas, Rice's Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy, and materials science and nanoengineering, said hot electrons are particularly interesting for solar - energy applications because they can be used to create devices that produce direct current or to drive chemical reactions on otherwise inert metal surfaces.

Tour is the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of computer science and a member of Rice's Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology.

Barron is the Charles W. Duncan Jr. - Welch Professor of Chemistry and a professor of materials science and nanoengineering at Rice and the Sêr Cymru Chair of Low Carbon Energy and Environment at Swansea.

The simulations revealed a selection of promising materialsdubbed specific anion nanoengineered sorbents (SANS).

«We combined the strengths of two different materials — nanosponges and hydrogels — to create a powerful formulation to treat local bacterial infections,» said Liangfang Zhang, nanoengineering professor in the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, who led the team.

«Copolymers are soft, stretchable and deformable,» said Ned Thomas, Rice's Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering and professor of materials science and nanoengineering, of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of chemistry.

Kono is a professor of electrical and computer engineering, of physics and astronomy, and of materials science and nanoengineering.

Boris Yakobson, a Rice professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of chemistry, was the go - to expert when a group of labs in Singapore, China, Japan and Taiwan used salt to make a «library» of 2 - D materials that combined transition metals and chalcogens.

Nanoengineering and Application of Protected but Accessible Metal Cluster Catalysts A. Katz, A. T. Bell, A. Harker, A. T. To, E. Clark, B. C. Gates, A. Palermo, and L. Debefve

Experts from the University of Exeter have developed a pioneering new technique that uses nanoengineering......

Remarkable advances in nanoengineering, optobiology, and synthetic biology have the potential to provide a set of tools that would allow us to study the brain at this new level.

In this study, targeted nanomedicines made from polymeric building blocks that are utilized in numerous FDA approved products to date, were nanoengineered to carry an anti-inflammatory drug payload in the form of a biomimetic peptide.

Project: Nanoengineered In Vitro Trabecular Meshwork ™ Model for Systematic Investigation of Aqueous Humor Outflow Resistance

Researchers seeking to understand the fundamentals of properties at the nanoscale may call their work nanoscience; those focused on effective use of the properties may call their work nanoengineering.

«We were interested in a fast and easy way to take these nanoparticles out of plasma so we could find out what's going on at their surfaces and redesign them to work more effectively in blood,» said Michael Heller, a nanoengineering professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and senior author of the study.

Co-authors are Rice senior Steven Schara, Associate Research Professor Robert Vajtai and Jun Lou, a professor of materials science and nanoengineering, all of Rice; and postdoctoral researcher Cristiano Woellner and Professor Varlei Rodrigues of the University of Campinas.

Related Awards # 1235881 Convective Thermal Transport at Superhydrophobic Surfaces # 1066426 Investigation of icephobic behavior of surfaces with tunable properties # 1331817 STTR Phase I: STTR Proposal on Atmospheric Water Capture using Advanced Nanomaterials # 1066356 Turbulent Flow Drag Reduction Using Surfaces Exhibiting Superhydrophobicity and Riblets # 1235867 Collaborative Research: A Micropatterned Wettability Approach for Superior Boiling Heat Transfer Performance # 0952564 CAREER: Fundamental Studies of Condensation Phenomena on Heterogeneous and Hierarchical Nanoengineered Surfaces

### The research team In addition to Jonathan Claussen and Loreen Stromberg, co-authors of the paper describing water - repelling, inkjet - printed graphene circuits are: Suprem Das, an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at Kansas State University, formerly an Iowa State postdoctoral research associate in mechanical engineering and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory; Srilok Srinivasan, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Qing He, an Iowa State graduate student in agricultural and biosystems engineering; Nathaniel Garland, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Warren Straszheim, an Iowa State associate scientist with the Materials Analysis and Research Laboratory; Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering, a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice University in Houston; and Ganesh Balasubramanian, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, formerly an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State.

Tour's scientific research areas include nanoelectronics, graphene electronics, silicon oxide electronics, carbon nanovectors for medical applications, green carbon research for enhanced oil recovery and environmentally friendly oil and gas extraction, graphene photovoltaics, carbon supercapacitors, lithium ion batteries, CO2 capture, water splitting to H2 and O2, water purification, carbon nanotube and graphene synthetic modifications, graphene oxide, carbon composites, hydrogen storage on nanoengineered carbon scaffolds, and synthesis of single - molecule nanomachines which includes molecular motors and nanocars.