Sentences with phrase «study nanoscale»

A Postdoctoral Research Associate Position is available funded by the Wellcome Trust, to study the nanoscale organisation of human immune cell surfaces by super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.

«We want to study nanoscale processes such as the structural changes in a material as a crack moves through it at the speed of sound,» he said.

Utilizes advanced electron microscopy techniques to study nanoscale structure and defects that determine the utility of functional materials, such as superconductors, multiferroics, and other energy related systems including thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, and batteries.

Not exact matches

We hope that our work will further spark interest in studying and manipulating nonlinear optical effects in novel nanoscale systems using unconventional excitation beams.»

In doing so, the team has provided a molecular dynamics tool that allows for the study of various heat transfer problems at the nanoscale, including understanding and utilizing passive liquid flows.

«Our goal was to lay out the forces that control energy transport at the nanoscale,» says study co-author Surajit Sen, PhD, professor of physics in UB's College of Arts and Sciences.

Before now, researchers were unable to study it at nanoscales in molecular simulation.

Webster has been studying the possibility of growing tissue around nanomaterials since 1998 when he was a graduate student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Nanoscale materials are increasing growth in all of these tissue types,» he says.

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

Whereas in this experiment the scientists tested nanoscale environments at room temperature to about 1300 degrees Celsius (2372 degrees Fahrenheit), the HERMES could be useful for studying devices working across a wide range of temperatures, for example, electronics that operate under ambient conditions to vehicle catalysts that perform over 300 C / 600 F.

One new study found that nanoscale particles can cross into the womb through the placenta.

«It's a terrific paper,» says Rice University chemist Dan Colbert, who sees the study as an important advance toward creating nanoscale molecular structures.

A: I'm working on using solid - state defects in diamonds as magnetic field sensors, with the goal of using them as little nanoscale MRI machines that can study the structure and dynamics of single biological molecules (e.g., proteins).

Previously, Chueh and other scientists have used transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to study working batteries at the nanoscale.

Using X-ray beams and lasers, researchers studied how a new promising class of solar cell materials, called hybrid perovskites, behaves at the nanoscale level during operation.

Backman has been studying cell abnormalities at the nanoscale in many different types of cancers, using an optical technique he pioneered called partial wave spectroscopic (PWS) microscopy.

But as Jan Zaanen of Leiden University, The Netherlands, notes in an accompanying commentary, «studies like these are revealing amazing diversity in the behavior of these mystery electron systems at the nanoscale.»

We see manifold applications, such as studies of conformational changes in amyloid structures on the molecular level, the mapping of nanoscale protein modifications in biomedical tissue or the label - free mapping of membrane proteins.

The latter is a tool often used for studying secondary structure of proteins that, however, does not allow for nanoscale mapping of proteins by itself.

The new study builds on a technique developed in 2013 by Sleiman's research group to make nanoscale «cages» from strands of DNA, and stuff them with lipid - like polymer chains that fold together into a ball - shaped particle that can contain cargo such as drug molecules.

«Our research opens a new door to study motor molecules in their native state, at the nanoscale,» Mr Mauranyapin said.

Australian Research Council Future Fellow Professor Warwick Bowen said the research — reported in Nature Photonics this week — demonstrated how quantum technologies could revolutionise the study of life's «nanoscale machinery, or biological motor molecules.»

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.

In a study described in the latest Science Advances, Adrian Joseph, a post-doctoral fellow in the department of chemistry at University College London, and his colleagues synthesized nanoscale «carriers» from different mixtures of lipid polymers that resemble the constituents of cell membranes.

Cahill's research group at Illinois studies the physical mechanisms governing the interplay of spin and heat at the nanoscale, addressing the fundamental limits of ultrafast spintronic devices for data storage and information processing.

The study was led by the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, the University Medical Center Göttingen, the Braunschweig University of Technology, the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, the Center for Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain in Göttingen, Germany, and the University of California San Diego.

Besides having the potential to replace bulky, expensive amplifiers used today for the study of attosecond science and ultrafast optical information processing, the newly developed nanoscale - amplifier also provides a critical element to the optical interconnects toolkit, potentially providing regenerative amplification in short to long range interconnects.

Materials with a high surface - to - volume ratio are attractive for studying the noise produced by nanoscale electronics because they are very sensitive to changes of their surfaces.

«These results improve our understanding of friction and thermal motion at the nanoscale and will be helpful in the design and construction of future nanodevices,» says Christoph Dellago, one of the authors of the study.

A recent study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign provides new insights on the physical mechanisms governing the interplay of spin and heat at the nanoscale, and addresses the fundamental limits of ultrafast spintronic devices for data storage and information processing.

By studying the connections between skin cells using AFM and other techniques that probe cells at the nanoscale, Sinha and his colleagues report that pathogenic antibodies change structural and functional properties of skin cells in distinct ways.

All seem to suggest that a new study, released yesterday, has found that nanoscale materials, used in everything from medical imaging to cancer treatment, can damage genetic material in our bodies, feeding public fears.

But if Kinshasa has become less charmingly urban, Makuwa remains entranced by the nanoscale world of viruses, scanning the scientific literature each morning for relevant studies and new data.

With this study, not only have we observed this nanoscale wetting - dependent viscosity, but we have also been able to explain quantitatively the origin of the observed changes and relate them to boundary slip.

Read about a new study published in the journal Nanoscale by the EPN partners: the Life Sciences group in the ILL, with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and the Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS).

The CFN provides state - of - the - art capabilities for the fabrication and study of nanoscale materials, with an emphasis on atomic - level tailoring to achieve desired properties and functions.

Researchers studying the behavior of nanoscale materials at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have uncovered remarkable behavior that could advance microprocessors beyond today's silicon - based chips.

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.

The study, featured on the cover of Advanced Electronic Materials, shows that a single crystal complex oxide material, when confined to micro - and nanoscales, can act like a multi-component electrical circuit.

«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.

In addition to their NANOvember events they have just announced the first undergraduate programme for nanoscale science studies in the US.

These studies will provide significant insights into nanoscale catalysts, sensors and electrochromic applications such as smart glass where light or heat transmission properties of the glass are changed by applying voltage.

The samples were grown with single atomic layer precision using molecular beam epitaxy at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, by postdoctoral researcher and first author on the study Jason Hoffman.

We now have a range of new techniques that allow us to study crystal growth at the nanoscale, helping us to understand and control this growth to produce materials with specific properties.

After implementing the mf - OCT using advanced optical engineering, we will conduct a pilot clinical studies to validate the nanoscale structures and the oxygen metabolic alterations are present in glaucoma patients and normal vision patients.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have created a sort of nanoscale display case that enables new atomic - scale views of hard - to - study chemical and biological samples.

Park NX10 helps life science researchers study biomaterials at the nanoscale.

Free - electron lasers have opened new frontiers in studying materials and chemistry at the nanoscale and beyond, and Filippetto said he hopes to pave new ground with HiRES, too, using a technique known as «ultrafast electron diffraction,» or UED, that is similar to X-ray diffraction.

That cylinder in the middle of the image is the tiny, cubic millimeter - sized chunk of mouse neocortex studied as a test case for nanoscale brain imaging technology

That cylinder in the middle of the image is the tiny, cubic millimeter - sized chunk of mouse neocortex studied as a test case for nanoscale brain imaging technology (Credit: Harvard University)