Sentences with phrase «under ambient conditions»

For the first time researchers have shown that freestanding metal membranes consisting of a single layer of atoms can be stable under ambient conditions.

But the search for a stable three - dimensional form of carbon that is metallic under ambient conditions, including temperature and pressure, has remained an ongoing challenge for scientists in the field.

«To our surprise, the enzymes can be engineered to efficiently make such crazy carbon rings under ambient conditions,» says graduate student Kai Chen, lead author on the paper.

Generation of hydrogen from inexpensive organosilane substrates under ambient conditions without additional energy input represents an exciting advance towards the goal of using hydrogen as a green energy source.

«Here, we have made molecules in multi-gram quantities and they are stable under ambient conditions enabling us to study them more straightforwardly.

Elizabeth Wildman, a PhD student in the research group led by Professor Steve Liddle based at The University of Manchester, has reported the first examples of thorium with multiple bonds to arsenic to exist under ambient conditions on multi-gram scales where before they had only been prepared on very small scales at temperatures approaching that of interstellar space (3 - 10 Kelvin).

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.

«This is the first successful use of oxygen in the air to oxidize methane under ambient conditions,» Ohkubo says.

The authors believe this new hyperpolarization technique should enable orders of magnitude sensitivity enhancement for NMR studies of solids and liquids under ambient conditions.

«Unlike standard methods for manipulating the properties of graphene oxide, our process can be implemented under ambient conditions and is environmentally - benign, making it a promising step towards the practical integration of graphene oxide into future technologies.»

GeSe is also an attractive material for electronics because it's robust under ambient conditions while black phosphorus is reactive to both air and water.

The perpendicularly oriented BCP thin films were fabricated using simple spin - coating and thermal annealing processes under ambient conditions.

NREL's unencapsulated solar cell — a cell used for testing that doesn't have a protective barrier like glass between the cell's conductive parts and the elements — held onto 94 percent of its starting efficiency after 1,000 hours of continuous use under ambient conditions, according to research published in Nature Energy.

The State Department's draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL defines bitumen as «a form of petroleum that occurs naturally in a solid or semi-solid state... Raw bitumen is solid under ambient conditions and therefore must be altered into a form that can be transported via pipeline.»

Long term creep experiments (~ 10 years) indicate that the viscosity of granite and glass under ambient conditions are on the order of 10 ^ 20 poises.

Our sunlight - powered technology is exciting as it enables the production of clean hydrogen from unprocessed biomass under ambient conditions.

The demonstration of 2D Fe membranes is exciting because it shows that freestanding 2D materials that are not obtained from layered bulk materials can be achieved and that such 2D materials can be stable under ambient conditions.

The yields of methanol and formic acid were 14 % and 85 %, respectively, with a methane conversion of 99 % under ambient conditions (298 K, 1 atm) in a two - phase system comprising perfluorohexane and water.

Once isolated these atomically thin layers maintain mechanical integrity (i.e. they are stable) under ambient conditions.

It proved easy and cheap to fabricate at room temperature and under ambient conditions, which signifies a considerable decrease in production costs.