Sentences with phrase «on nanoscale»

Her dissertation topic focused on nanoscale friction.

Her focus is on nanoscale compositions, transport, pattern formation, reaction mechanisms, and nanomechanical properties.

Urban's research is all about imitating this sliding behavior on the nanoscale.

Concretely, based on basic research on nanoscale materials, such as atomic and molecular transport and chemical reaction processes, polarization and excitation of charge and spin and superconducting phenomena, we are conducting research on atomic switches, artificial synapses, molecular devices, new quantum bits, neural network - type network circuits, next - generation devices, high sensitivity integrated molecular sensors and other new applied technologies.

«Our goal is to realize a variety of artificial functional systems on the nanoscale, taking direct inspirations from nature,» says Laura Na Liu, who works with Urban and leads the research group.

Researchers show that particles on a nanoscale actually fluctuate more than we expect on a macro scale and develop new procedures to test what exactly is happening on the level of our increasingly miniature technology.

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That's why scientists have created a device that identifies microscopic life, based on nanoscale movements instead of chemistry.

«Nadrian Seeman's invention of DNA nanotechnology is unprecedented as a method to control matter on the nanoscale.

THE 2010 KAVLI PRIZE IN NANOSCIENCE is awarded to Donald Eigler and Nadrian Seeman «for their development of unprecedented methods to control matter on the nanoscale.»

Thanks to Dresselhaus's work, we have an improved understanding of how energy flows and dissipates on the nanoscale.

In an age of nanotechnology advances ALD is an ideal tool for depositing on nanoscale features.

My aim is to collect quantitative data about cellular processes in real time through observation and perturbation of molecular dynamics on the nanoscale in living cells.

The American Chemistry Council's Nanotechnology Panel issued the following statement regarding The Environmental Protection Agency's final reporting and recordkeeping rule on nanoscale materials.

The AFM scanner allows for precise positioning on the nanoscale while the thermal cantilever induces local nanoscale chemical reactions.

«By tuning the temperature, our team manipulated chemical reactions to yield variations in the molecular concentrations on the nanoscale,» said Jennifer Curtis, an associate professor in the School of Physics and the study's lead author.

AFM measurement has been adopted extensively within the nanotechnology community as an important tool for visualizing and quantifying structures on the nanoscale.

The capability to tune the acoustic phonon dynamics in technologically relevant group IV nanostructures provides a promising prospect to control the propagation of acoustic and thermal phonons with great implications on nanoscale hypersound and thermal transport.

By extending the coherence time of electron states to over half a second, a team of scientists from Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University has vastly improved the performance of one of the most potent possible sensors of magnetic fields on the nanoscale — a diamond defect no bigger than a pair of atoms, called a nitrogen vacancy (NV) center.

On the nanoscale, tiny collagen fibers have a laminatelike arrangement, with different layers of fibers oriented in different directions.

As we learn to shape carbon on the nanoscale — into tubes and sheets, balls and ribbons — entirely new and unexpected vistas are opening up.

The chemical is non-toxic in larger form, but has been found to have a more harmful effect on cells on the nanoscale.

Many foods have a natural nanostructure — the proteins in milk form nanoscale clusters, for example — that can be altered on the nanoscale to enhance their properties.

But cars on the nanoscale behave nothing like their real - life counterparts, making it hard to find uses for the machines.

The puniest bits of soot in diesel exhaust, known as ultrafines, measure on the nanoscale.

As the structures are so tiny — each grain is only about the size of a virus — there is only one method with which the nanovortices can directly be observed while they are heated up and cooled down: «A special high - resolution electron microscope at the Ernst Ruska - Centre (ER - C) in Jülich is capable of making magnetic fields on the nanoscale holographically visible,» explains Almeida.

It doesn't rely on nanoscale patterns, but instead is a simple sandwich of alternating nanometer - thick layers of silver and titanium dioxide, the construction of which is routine.

And finding it in glycine is doubly exciting because it means the ferroelectric effect can be induced on the nanoscale.

You could imagine machines made of natural molecules that could swim through the blood, exploiting their memory storage and computing power to battle bad molecules on the nanoscale.

Excitons are of great interest because they can transport both energy and charges on a nanoscale level, and form the basis of an entire field of next - generation electronics, called «excitonics.»

Physicists are using a technique reminiscent of a classic video game to observe DNA on the nanoscale.

Chipmakers continue to shrink circuits on the nanoscale as well, which «means a chip needs less electricity» to deliver the same performance, she adds.

«We were making small, easily synthesized, programmable molecules» — molecules designed and synthesized with parts that control their behavior — «which assembled on the nanoscale into highly functional materials,» Smith says.

This research opens new pathways for probing other electromechanical phenomena on the nanoscale that have not been studied before, such as charge trapping and properties of dielectric materials.

Such materials take advantage of the fact that very small deviations on the nanoscale can significantly alter the material properties.

In 2007, John Rogers at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and colleagues produced a printer small enough to print electronic circuits from conductive ink on the nanoscale.

Though ours is a much, much smaller process, on a nanoscale.»

While straining spaghetti is a simple example, the filtering of specific molecules on the nanoscale level for biomedical applications and for production of clean water is a complex and costly process.

«Our real, sincere focus at this point is springboarding off this leaf result and working on the nanoscale,» said Jarvi.

That's in part because researchers must properly align everything from motor proteins within cells on the nanoscale to much larger muscle fibers and bundles of fibers on the centimeter scale.

On a nanoscale level, the scales on a snake's belly are covered in minuscule hairs, called microfibrils, which are less than 400 nanometers wide.

Furgeson and his colleagues said that zebrafish could be used to identify «nanomaterial characteristics that afford minimal or no toxicity and guide more rational designs of materials on the nanoscale.»

«All the really interesting things that take place in a leaf happen on a nanoscale,» he says.

Our study demonstrates the emerging ability of optical microscopy to investigate intracellular physiological processes on the nanoscale in real time.

Now, it doesn't work out exactly that way on the nanoscale.

Water droplets roll off lotus leaves partly because of the roughness of their surface on the nanoscale.

By manipulating chemical reactions, behaviors of cells can be mimicked resulting in chemical factories on the nanoscale controlled and not by physical touch but by magnets and light.

In contrast, in graphite, striking coherent transients of the structure were observed in both image and diffraction, directly measuring, on the nanoscale, the longitudinal resonance period governed by Young's elastic modulus.

Metal oxides such as zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are increasingly being used in sunscreens and cosmetics in the form of nanoparticles — microscopic particles of matter measured on the nanoscale.

Not exact matches

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