Sentences with phrase «studying its material properties»

But researchers have struggled to move beyond tiny lab samples for studying its material properties to larger pieces for real - world applications.

Not exact matches

Omenetto began to study silk just five years ago, intrigued by the material's remarkable optical properties.

The colloidal crystals designed in the study, called metamaterials, are artificially structured materials that extend the properties of existing naturally occurring materials and compounds.

An associate professor in Northwestern University's medical school in Chicago and its engineering school in Evanston, Illinois, Ameer studies properties of materials that can mimic human tissue, particularly materials that prevent rejection or scarring when implanted into humans.

For example, current silicon - based solar cells convert realistically only about 25 percent of sunlight into electricity, so efficiency is an issue, says Calley Eads, a fifth - year doctoral student in the UA's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry who studies some of the properties of these new materials.

A new study sheds light on unique property of 2 - D materials — ability to shield chemical interactions at the molecular level.

As a foundational study, the research team investigated superionic ice treating the ions as if they were classical particles, but in future studies they plan to take quantum effects into account to further understand the properties of the material.

Felser studies Heusler compounds, materials that have unusual properties particularly useful for manipulating magnetism.

So he and Tarkhanyan studied the thermal properties of four simple model structures of micro-nano porous materials.

«To find other materials with similar properties, we focused on the feasibility of exfoliation,» explains Nicolas Mounet, a researcher in the THEOS lab and lead author of the study.

I found a new home in a lab studying graphene, a material with promising electronic properties.

«Interestingly, we found that magnetic anisotropy is an inherent property in the 2 - D material we studied, and because of this characteristic, we were able to detect the intrinsic ferromagnetism,» said study lead author Cheng Gong, a postdoctoral researcher in Zhang's lab.

In the future, the team is aiming to study the resonant properties and interactions of nanoparticles made from nonmetallic materials.

It is an intensely studied material that displays interesting properties in different fields.

The study, involving researchers from UCL, Imperial College London and Dalian University of Technology (China) and published today in Science, shows how the new paint made from coated titanium dioxide nanoparticles can give a wide - range of materials self - cleaning properties, even during and after immersion in oil and following damage to the surface.

In a new study due this week in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Rice University theoretical physicist Qimiao Si and colleagues at the Rice Center for Quantum Materials in Houston and the Vienna University of Technology in Austria make predictions that could help experimental physicists create what the authors have coined a «Weyl - Kondo semimetal,» a quantum material with an assorted collection of properties seen in disparate materials like topological insulators, heavy fermion metals and high - temperature supercoMaterials in Houston and the Vienna University of Technology in Austria make predictions that could help experimental physicists create what the authors have coined a «Weyl - Kondo semimetal,» a quantum material with an assorted collection of properties seen in disparate materials like topological insulators, heavy fermion metals and high - temperature supercomaterials like topological insulators, heavy fermion metals and high - temperature superconductors.

In connecting the eggshell's functionality with its fine - grain structure, the new study could provide inspiration for designing new kinds of materials with specific properties.

Tony Heinz, a Columbia physicist and study co-author, says that graphene's ripples have also been implicated in other puzzling properties that the material exhibits.

Miao and his team plan to build on their results by studying how atoms are arranged in materials that possess magnetism or energy storage functions, which will help inform our understanding of the properties of these important materials at the most fundamental scale.

Yang noted that there are more questions that need to be answered before vanadium dioxide can be commercialized, but said that this study highlights the potential of a material with «exotic electrical and thermal properties.»

«Studying the formation and evolution of jets in metals and, more generally, how materials at extreme conditions respond using X-ray phase contrast imaging is relevant to such things as meteorite impacts, the performance of explosives and detonators, understanding crack nucleation and propagation in materials, and the development of new materials with tailored properties whose applications include automotive and airplane components, lighter and more impact - resistant armor, and debris shields in space, to name a few.»

According to a study published in the leading journal Science, Rafael Luque — a research scientist at the University of Córdoba Department of Inorganic Chemistry — and other members of an international team comprising scientists from the South China University of Technologyand the KAUST institution in Saudi Arabia, have succeeded in developing a novel porous material with new characteristics and properties which will ensure improve performance in a range of applications.

«Colloids displaying such properties are really interesting materials to study,» says Isa.

More recent studies have documented the material properties through biaxial testing (testing in two directions simultaneously).

This image shows the resonant bonding in lead telluride, one of the materials whose properties the team studied.

MUSE's science goals include delving into the early epochs of the Universe to probe the mechanisms of galaxy formation and studying both the motions of material in nearby galaxies and their chemical properties.

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.

While researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology don't have a specific application for the doughnut - shaped droplets yet, they believe the novel structures offer opportunities to study many interesting problems, from looking at the properties of ordered materials within these confined spaces to studying how geometry affects how cells behave.

«Now that we know the structure of these materials, we can start studying how their atomic - level arrangement affects their large - scale properties.»

From those predictions, they were able to identify a suitable dirhodium complex and starting material with the properties needed to stabilize the intermediate compound long enough to study it further.

The study headed by DESY scientists opens up new possibilities for studying the properties of materials.

Scientists studying graphene's properties are using a new mathematical framework to make extremely accurate characterizations of the two - dimensional material's shape.

ULTRATHIN FILMS Computer simulations reveal the properties of a little - studied group of synthetic materials: 2 - D arrays of metal atoms arranged in honeycombs (illustrated), triangles or squares.

I had some advantages: First - principles electronic structure theory — in which the structure and properties of chemical compounds are calculated by solving the Schrödinger equation — had just matured enough to allow the study of materials that I thought might be good multiferroics candidates.

Specifically, the decision says that Wisconsin has property rights in potential drug compounds studied by a university biochemist, Mark Gray - Keller, who was hired by Xenon on a consulting agreement to test the activity of materials the company wanted him to check out.

The group of Majed Chergui at EPFL, along with national and international colleagues, have shed light on this long - standing question by using a combination of cutting - edge experimental methods: steady - state angle - resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), which maps the energetics of the electrons along the different axis in the solid; spectroscopic ellipsometry, which determines the optical properties of the solid with high accuracy; and ultrafast two - dimensional deep - ultraviolet spectroscopy, used for the first time in the study of materials, along with state - of - the - art first - principles theoretical tools.

For example, Andrey Novitsky of the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby and colleagues in Singapore consider a single spherical particle in a Bessel beam and study primarily how the size and material properties of the particle must be adjusted to produce an attraction, as they reported online 10 November in Physical Review Letters.

One of the great opportunities this study creates is the ability to produce multi-functional inorganic materials such as metals and ceramics to explore photonic and energy harvesting properties in these new materials

Studying the properties of 2D materials in comparison with their 3D counterparts raises many thought - provoking questions; one of them concerns magnetic phase transitions.

In addition to the described fundamental interest, the Manchester study proves that it is possible to modify properties of atomically - thin materials by placing them on top of each other.

In topological insulators and the new class of materials the Princeton researchers studied, the unique properties of the atoms combine to create quantum effects that coax electrons into acting similar to a light wave instead of like individual particles.

The result opens the door for more careful study of this region of materials, with a view to finding a material that can offer just the right properties for certain photonics applications.

The developed atomistic model paves the way to study the effect of different stacking fault distributions and engineering defects to tailor material properties.»

A new study by Dr. Guerda Massillon, researcher at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), looked at the properties of various materials called dosimeters that measure radiation doses.

There are many ways of studying the atomic bonds and molecular interactions that give materials their strength and other fundamental properties.

The high - purity samples were then studied at the ALS using a technique known as ARPES (or angle - resolved photoemission spectroscopy), which provides a powerful probe of materials» electron properties.

In their study, the scientists from MIPT succeeded in growing an ultra-thin, tunnel - transparent film of this material on a silicon substrate, while maintaining the ferroelectric properties.

For the first time, physicists have built a two - dimensional experimental system that allows them to study the physical properties of materials that were theorized to exist only in four - dimensional space.

Besides its topological properties, its «sister materials,» which have similar properties and were also studied by the research team, are known to be light - sensitive and have useful properties for solar cells and for optoelectronics, which control light for use in electronic devices.

Co-author of the study Professor Angel Rubio, from the University of the Basque Country, added: «An important aspect of our study is that we have increased the lego of 2D materials that we can use to build a whole host of artificial solid materials with a wide range of differing properties.»»