Sentences with phrase «researchers tested the material»

Researchers tested the material as a surgical adhesive in a number of different scenarios: It stuck to pig skin and liver.

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Researchers are actively at work creating less invasive tests to screen for chromosome disorders in developing babies, such as by isolating the baby's genetic material from samples of the mother's blood.

Researchers performed shear tests on the Carbopol, where a portion of the material is pulled one direction and a portion is pulled in the opposite direction.

Shiflett hired one of his colleagues from DuPont, David Corbin, a world expert in porous materials called zeolites, to provide guidance on the selection of materials the researchers are testing.

Jackson's new tests of lead isotopes there confirm the rocks» ancient pedigree, which should help researchers better understand the raw materials from which our planet formed.

Mass producing such a patch would be fairly cheap and simple, the researchers say, as the DNA molecules that detect food pathogens can be printed onto the test material.

The team is also testing the resolution of the microfluidic system with other reagents and materials, bringing researchers one step closer to viewing live biological mechanisms in action at the highest levels of resolution possible.

The researchers then tested the new material and found that it blew the doors off of current filter materials.

Once the researchers figured out the optimal size to use for the repeating structures, they performed optical testing to determine whether characteristics such as surface roughness or the material's light absorption would cause unexpected optical problems.

(Yesterday, the agency launched precisionFDA, a web platform for diagnostics companies, researchers, and healthcare providers to validate genetic tests against reference materials and share their results.)

After extensive testing, the team found that the hydrogen binding energy (the amount of energy released when a hydrogen molecule adheres to a metal surface) was the most important factor predicting the rate of the reaction — information essential to researchers designing new catalyst materials.

A team of researchers, led by Sangeeta Bhatia, an associate professor at HST and in M.I.T.'s department of electrical engineering and computer science, report in Advanced Materials that they have developed and tested injectable multifunctional nanoparticles — particles billionths of a meter in size — that they expect to become a new, potent weapon against cancer.

Retrieval practice also helps to prevent students from confusing the material they are currently learning with material they learned previously and even appears to prepare students» minds to absorb the material still more thoroughly when they encounter it again after testing (a phenomenon researchers call «test - potentiated learning»).

In the current tests of the two - story, 22 - foot - tall structure, the researchers are studying the behavior of full - scale seismic safety systems made from advanced wood materials — including rocking walls, which can rock during a temblor and then re-center back by itself, and a mass timber floor designed to withstand strong earthquakes.

In order to speed the process and reduce the financial burden on small companies that dominate small tech start - ups, U.S. and Canadian researchers suggest that the United States should prioritize which materials should undergo the most rigorous testing based on what is already known about their toxicity as well as the potential human exposure.

The researchers performed various tests on the extracted material to determine its physicochemical characteristics as well as to monitor the biogas quality and quantity.

Researchers also calculated how fast the universe is expanding and tested the properties of the odd material within neutron stars.

But Kevin Zmetra, a recipient of a Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Zmetra, a doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut, along with leading researchers, has tested the use of Ultra-High Strength Concrete (UHSC)-- a strong material used to repair bridges much more quickly at a much lower cost.

Researchers are now covering a wide range of applications with a new modular system: From sonar systems to medical ultrasound technologies and all the way to the high frequency range — such as for materials testing.

For the new test system, the researchers used artificial genetic material instead of natural samples of the deformed wing virus, in order to clearly correlate the course of disease to the virus.

Cindy Barrera, a postdoctoral researcher in Cornish's lab, found in tests that eggshells have porous microstructures that provide larger surface area for contact with the rubber, and give rubber - based materials unusual properties.

To find out why kirigami cuts enhance a material's adhesive properties, the researchers first bonded a kirigami film to a polymer surface, then subjected the material to stretch tests.

Researchers from Rice University experimentally validated the calculations by synthesizing and testing two of the proposed materials, tantalum disulfide and niobium disulfide.

«When compared to learners expecting a test, learners expecting to teach recalled more material correctly, they organized their recall more effectively and they had better memory for especially important information,» said lead author John Nestojko, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in psychology in Arts & Sciences at WUSTL.

Researchers typically must produce lab samples — which are often composed of multiple layers of different materials bonded together — for extensive testing.

In addition, the researchers found that the material response to the DSI test may provide an indication of service life prior to crack formation.

The researchers also tested the different microbes» performance with minimal pretreatment of the plant materials, indicating it may be possible to reduce or eliminate use of heat and chemicals that make the feedstock accessible to biological processing.

Researchers test a new buff and tough material that expands or contracts when an electrical charge is applied and is able to withstand blazing heat and freezing cold

A team of researchers reports success in pioneering tests of a layered material with a lightweight metal matrix syntactic foam core that holds significant potential for automobiles, trains, ships, and other applications requiring lightweight structural components that retain their strength even when bent or compressed.

Advanced materials were tested and the design was based on an array of antennas and other elements, ie, is actually more than one antenna,» explains the researcher at the UAEM.

Next the researchers hope to test the materials at a planned city water purification plant in Albuquerque, N.M., as well as in smaller water systems in rural communities.

The chips carry snippets of known genetic material that, when paired up by DNA in a test sample, tell researchers what genetic code is present.

Stanford's Department of Materials Science and Engineering published a paper in the journal Nature Materials yesterday that claimed researchers there have managed to prove in laboratory tests that heat usually lost in the solar generation process can be saved by improving semiconductors.

The researchers eventually plan to test the 21 materials in the laboratory to determine which are best suited for real - world conditions.

Once the researchers were confident that they had made their desired material, they enlisted the help of Bruce Hamilton of UMIST's physics department to carry out the photoluminescence tests.

To test the stability of new material, the researchers repeatedly applied heat to the battery with a hot - air gun.

To test their theory, the researchers investigated what would happen to fetal mouse brains if they interfered with Trnp1 expression using synthetic sequences of genetic material that silenced the gene, a technique called RNA interference.

To test the friction properties of this material, the Penn researchers collaborated with Paul Sheehan and Jeremy Robinson of the Naval Research Laboratory.

In a study published in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, researchers in Japan and China tested a novel urease fabrication process for coating titanium implants with bioactive CaP / gelatin composites.

In 2011, researchers led by Richard Masel, a chemist and CEO of Dioxide Materials in Boca Raton, Florida, tested a setup with silver and iridium oxide catalysts and a liquid electrolyte to promote the CO2 to CO reaction.

The researchers, from the University of California, San Diego, the University of Southern California and the California Institute of Technology, describe the material's fabrication and testing in a recent issue of Nature Scientific Reports.

While the UC Riverside did not look at the toxicity of GO in their study, researchers at the Hersam group from Northwestern University did report in a paper published in the journal Nano Letters («Minimizing Oxidation and Stable Nanoscale Dispersion Improves the Biocompatibility of Graphene in the Lung») that GO was the most toxic form of graphene - based materials that were tested in mice lungs.

Researchers then tested whether the samples containing high arsenite concentrations also had an abundance of the arsenate reductase genetic material.

Researchers would like to put those materials to the test and investigate how they behave with the help of a high - power electron microscope, eventually solving the issue of capacity fading during a battery's life.

The researchers studying memory have found that incorporating quizzes and self - tests into the learning process increase the amount of material students are able to remember long - term.

The two researchers racked their brains to come up with materials that might explain the new spectroscopic feature, and then tested everything from sodium chloride to Drano in Hand's lab at JPL, where he tries to simulate the environments found on various icy worlds.

Being able to carry out rapid testing will help researchers come up with more efficient materials in which to maximize the catalytic activity of the basal planes.

The researchers found sufficient archival material to test the importance of several biomarkers, including E-cadherin, from 168 women with node - negative breast cancer.

As for applications, «the graphene market isn't one size fits all», says Coleman, but the researchers report testing it as the electrode materials in solar cells and batteries.

The vessel itself is «overdesigned» to the point that it can confine the explosion without issue, but the researchers still want to protect its interior to further mitigate risk and to enable the vessel to be reused in future tests with non-nuclear materials.