Sentences with phrase «oxide material from»

Disappearing stripes linked with free electron movement: Scientists used a precision microscope to simultaneously explore electrons» arrangements and movements as charge carriers called holes were added to transform a copper - oxide material from an insulator to a superconductor.

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Quarantine (import): An importer is required to either treat (eg methyl bromide or ethylene oxide), re-export or destroy an imported commercial consignment of goods made from natural forest materials, such as bamboo, which has not been treated off - shore and / or is not accompanied by an acceptable treatment certificate.

The silicon oxide (SiOx) barrier coating is a glass - like material which seals the container from the inside to protect the contents from oxidation.

BSensible's bedding is made from eco-friendly Tencel which is a natural waterproof material, and they state that it is infused with zinc oxide to soften and protect skin.

By employing state - of - art materials design methods, Dr. Binghai Yan and his collaborators from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany have recently predicted that the oxide compound BaBiO3 combines two required properties, i.e., topological insulator and superconductivity.

A composite thin film made of two different inorganic oxide materials significantly improves the performance of solar cells, as recently demonstrated by a joint team of researchers led by Professor Federico Rosei at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), and Dr. Riad Nechache from École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), both in the Montreal Area (Canada).

And it shows that simple oxide materials like alumina can trigger carbon - carbon bond formation from methanol derivatives, thus opening new avenues for the upgrading of methanol into long chain hydrocarbons.»

Reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi station runs on so - called mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, in which uranium is mixed with other fissile materials such as plutonium from spent reactor fuel or from decommissioned nuclear weapons.

They plan to draw from the full suite of available 2D layered materials, including graphene, boron nitride, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), transition metal oxides (TMOs), and topological insulators (TIs).

Iron atoms travel to the surface from within the material, and right next to the platinum nanoparticle, an additional iron - oxide island is created.

High - energy materials, such as metal oxides and silicon anodes, have massive volume changes when lithium ions are injected and extracted from the electrode material.

According to the team, this simple synthetic process not only enables them to synthesize hierachially assembled materials from inexpensive metal oxides at a larger scale, but also can likely be extended to other metal oxides as well.

As such, this new synthetic route to oxide nanoparticles also shows great promise for a multitude of other catalytic, electrical, magnetic, or electrochemical processes, from novel cathodes to solution preparation of other types of ceramic 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.

Titanium oxide is a particularly interesting material used in many areas — from the coating for artificial hip joints to self - cleaning, dirt - repellent mirrors.

Many touch screens are made of layered thin (billionths of a meter thick) films of indium - tin oxide, an inorganic material that is electrically conductive, which allows electrical signals to travel from the «touch» to the edges of the display, where they are sensed by the device — as well as optically transparent.

Instead of fully eliminating the aberrations in the electron microscope, the researchers purposely added a type of aberration, called four-fold astigmatism, to collect atomic level magnetic signals from a lanthanum manganese arsenic oxide material.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have solved a long - standing materials science problem, making it possible to create new semiconductor devices using zinc oxide (ZnO)-- including efficient ultraviolet (UV) lasers and LED devices for use in sensors and drinking water treatment, as well as new ferromagnetic devices.

Working with a material formed from a thick layer of one oxide — strontium titanate — and a thin layer of a second material — lanthanum aluminate — these researchers have found that the interface between these materials can exhibit magnetic behavior that is stable at room temperature.

The team of researchers from MIPT's Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Nanoelectronics, with the participation of their colleagues from the University of Nebraska (USA) and the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), have for the first time experimentally demonstrated that polycrystalline alloyed films of hafnium and zirconium oxides with a thickness of just 2.5 nm (see image below) retain their ferroelectric properties.

Graphene oxide is a common intermediate for graphene and graphene - derived materials made from graphite, which is a crystalline form of carbon.

In a new study published in EPJ Plus, Stefan Frunza from the National Institute of Materials Physics in Romania and colleagues have discovered the properties of the surface layer in probe molecules on the surface of oxide particles.

In the journal Optical Materials Express, from The Optical Society (OSA), the researchers reported that graphene oxide sheets treated with brief exposure to bright light in the form of a camera flash exhibited reversible bending at angles from zero to 85 degrees in response to switching the relative humidity between 33 and 86 percent.

The team used the key properties of zinc oxide, a material that when squashed or stretched creates a voltage by converting energy from motion into electrical energy, in the form of nanorods.

However, TiO2 is far from ideal and zinc oxide (ZnO) should actually be more suitable as an electrode material.

For example, by removing some of the oxygen from graphene oxide, the electrically insulating material can be rendered conductive, opening up prospects for use in flexible electronics, sensors, solar cells and biomedical devices.

This behavior stems from an unusual feature of certain complex oxides called phase separation, in which tiny regions in the material exhibit vastly different electronic and magnetic properties.

The correlated behavior of itinerant electrons in these materials sets complex oxides apart from traditional semiconductors such as Si and GaAs.

The project was conceived by researchers from MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), and aims within three years to develop superconducting electromagnets from a newly available material - a steel tape coated with an yttrium - barium - copper oxide compound.

In making the material, the researchers found the tantalum oxide gradually loses oxygen ions, changing from an oxygen - rich, nanoporous semiconductor at the top to oxygen - poor at the bottom.

An international team led by scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University has detected new features in the electronic behavior of a copper oxide material that may...

Graphene - based materials, prepared from the exfoliation of graphite oxide, are used as a model of interstellar carbon dust as they contain a relatively large amount of atomic defects, either at their edges or on their surface.

Be sure to choose non-nano zinc oxide to avoid health complications that can arise from manipulation of materials at the microscopic level.

The color of the clay originates from the measure of iron - oxide and disintegrated plant material.

Particularly striking, Oxide Red leather can be specified, as well as «Lava» carpets, made from 100 % recycled materials and adding more than just a splash of colour to the svelte Swede's interior.

From my direct IR measurement experiences, materials with nitrides (N, N2, etc) and oxides (O, O2, etc) in their surface composition have very high emissivity, closer to blackbodies.

The wallpaper is made from fire - resistant materials like graphene oxide and hydroxyapatite nanowires.