Related Awards # 1235881 Convective Thermal Transport at Superhydrophobic Surfaces # 1066426 Investigation of icephobic behavior of surfaces with
tunable properties # 1331817 STTR Phase I: STTR Proposal on Atmospheric Water Capture using Advanced Nanomaterials # 1066356 Turbulent Flow Drag Reduction Using Surfaces Exhibiting Superhydrophobicity and Riblets # 1235867 Collaborative Research: A Micropatterned Wettability Approach for Superior Boiling Heat Transfer Performance # 0952564 CAREER: Fundamental Studies of Condensation Phenomena on Heterogeneous and Hierarchical Nanoengineered Surfaces
«This is an old chemistry that is widely used now because it is scalable and generates materials with interesting and highly -
tunable properties,» said Dr. Julia Laskin, who led the research.
Unlike regular photoinitiators, the novel hybrid nanoparticles developed by Prof. Banin and Prof. Magdassi present
tunable properties, wide excitation window in the UV and visible range, high light sensitivity, and function by a unique photocatalytic mechanism that increases printing efficiency while reducing the amount of materials required to create the final product.
Graphene oxide is a closely - related two - dimensional material with certain advantages over graphene, including simple production and processing, and highly
tunable properties.
Scientists funded by the NSF are working to synthesize, characterize and functionalize boron nitride nanotubes and boron nitride nanoribbons to create new electronic and optical materials with
tunable properties.
Not exact matches
The
tunable dielectric and magnetic
properties of metamaterials could be used in stealth technologies to cloak an object from view.
Unlike standard glass or plastic lenses, which have fixed parameters, the optical
properties of an electrically
tunable lens can be dynamically controlled using an electric current.
Nanographene has the hexagonal carbon lattice of graphene but consists of only a few carbon rings with
tunable electronic
properties.
They imagined placing the object in a cylindrical or spherical shell of «metamaterial» — an assemblage of tiny rods and rings with
tunable electric and magnetic
properties.
Other dichalcogenides can be made into 2 - D materials and may also be
tunable to enhance their
properties.
Metamaterials are designer electromagnetic materials that have
tunable optical
properties, allowing them to interact with light waves in new ways.
[«From
tunable core - shell nanoparticles to plasmonic drawbridges: Active control of nanoparticle optical
properties «-RSB-
Tunable thermal
properties make these structures good candidates for integrated heat management units such as waste heat recovery, rectification or efficient heat dissipation.
Abstract: The fabrication of multifunctional materials with
tunable structure and
properties requires programmed binding of their building blocks.
Recently developed, in - situ techniques for direct volume determination, acoustic wave velocity measurements, and x-ray diffraction at HPCAT, along with molecular dynamics simulations, were employed to explore the nature of the unusual and pressure -
tunable, compression and elastic
properties.
Controlling the concentration, size and shape of fullerene - like spheroids with tailored topological connectivity to graphene layers is expected to yield exceptional and
tunable mechanical
properties, similar to mechanical metamaterials, with a potentially wide range of applications.
This result, together with the
tunable and multifunctional
properties of PNBs in vitro and in vivo [34,40,50] that support diagnosis, therapy and theranostics (diagnosis and treatment united in one procedure) at the cellular level and with single cell selectivity, justify the development of PNB theranostic technologies despite the general limitations mentioned above.
In the journal Angewandte Chemie («Ultralight Mesoporous Magnetic Frameworks by Interfacial Assembly of Prussian Blue Nanocubes»), a team of Chinese and Australian researchers has now introduced a method for the synthesis of ultralight three - dimensional (3D) iron oxide frameworks with two different types of nanoscopic pores and
tunable surface
properties.
All of the interesting sensitivities are emergent
properties, and I assure you that they are not simply
tunable based on intuition.