Sentences with phrase «thin nanomaterials»

By loading the niobia on a graphene scaffold, Duan and his team achieved performance results that were several times greater than with a thin nanomaterial alone.

Experimental physicists in the research group led by Professor Uwe Hartmann at Saarland University have developed a thin nanomaterial with superconducting properties.

Not exact matches

The carbon / sulfur nanolaminates synthesized by Gogotsi's group demonstrate the same uniformity as the infiltrated carbon nanomaterials, but the sulfur in the nanolaminates is uniformly deposited in the carbon matrix as atomically thin layers and a strong covalent bonding between carbon and sulfur is observed.

To get a closer look at the individual nickel atoms within the atomically thin graphene sheet, the scientists used scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

Measuring roughly 10 atoms by 1 atom, the minute device was fashioned from graphene, an impossibly thin carbon nanomaterial.

The investigators stress that the danger is posed only by types of nanomaterials that are long, thin, and biopersistent — meaning that they are not broken down inside the body: «these long, thin nanotubes are very similar to asbestos in their structural and physical characteristics,» MacFarlane says.