Sentences with phrase «properties of nanostructured materials»

His research is focused on fabricating and exploring the properties of nanostructured materials, surfaces, and interfaces to improve energy transport and conversion.

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By adding semiconducting nanoparticles to polymers, the Materials + Technologies Research Group (GMT) of the Polytechnical College of San Sebastian of the UPV / EHU - University of the Basque Country has created nanostructured composite materials with specific optical and electrical properties that vary accordingMaterials + Technologies Research Group (GMT) of the Polytechnical College of San Sebastian of the UPV / EHU - University of the Basque Country has created nanostructured composite materials with specific optical and electrical properties that vary accordingmaterials with specific optical and electrical properties that vary according to size.

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.

«One of the things that make nanostructures interesting, is that the surface plays a larger role in defining the material's properties,» says Aloni.

«From the linear properties, one calculates the nonlinear polarization and the mode of the nanostructure at the second harmonic,» says Kevin O'Brien, co-lead author of the Nature Materials paper and a member of Zhang's research group.

Resume: Thermal properties of nanostructures are of interest due to their applications in thermoelectric materials and energy harvesting.

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].

«With our new ability to probe both polymer properties and nanostructure, it will be possible to tune materials for optimal performance in an array of novel technologies, Collins said.

Schüth talked about the progress made in controlling the properties of nanostructures for catalytic materials.

Prof. Su's current research fields include the design, the synthesis, the property study and the molecular engineering of nanostructures and highly organized and hierarchically self - assembled porous materials, bio-integrated living and bio-inspired materials including leaf - like materials by the immobilization of living organisms and biomaterials for catalysis, photocatalysis, CO2 reduction and water splitting, artificial photosynthesis, nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, energy storage and conversion, cell therapy and biomedical applications.

Nanostructured, enhanced with silicon oxide, covered with a nanometer - thin layer of aluminum oxide and cobalt oxide — these treatments optimize the electrochemical properties of the material, but are nonetheless simple to apply.