Sentences with phrase «uses nanomaterials»

Nanoscale construction is a field of nanotechnology that uses nanomaterials as basic building blocks to create materials with specific features.

So, researchers have been searching for ways of using these nanomaterials to add great strength to composite materials, much the way steel bars are used to reinforce concrete.

The number of products — including sunscreens, paints, vitamins, food additives, electronics, vehicles and appliances — that use nanomaterials has increased almost 380 percent since 2006, according to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, a Washington, D.C. - based non-profit group that tracks nanotechnology.

Also, which companies are using nanomaterials, especially in sprays or powders that can easily be inhaled?

7 Analysts say the global market for manufactured goods using nanomaterials could hit $ 1.6 trillion by 2013.

Two different images have been printed in the same space using nanomaterials.

Today, he is heading up one of the world's leading laboratories using nanomaterial research to pursue challenges in energy and environmental sciences, particularly in the development of the next generation of batteries.

Nowadays, zinc oxide nanoparticles are among the most commonly used nanomaterials.

A popular approach is to use nanomaterials, prized for their innovative features, such as large surface areas for an incredibly small volume, with biomolecules.

Some of their goals include the unravelling of disease mechanisms by using nanomaterials to track cellular components and probe the chemical niche of the cells, the transformation of adult human cells into induced pluripotent stem cells and the delivery of drugs directly to immune and cancer cells.

Earlier this week, Environmental Defense and DuPont released a draft strategy that will enable firms that manufacture or use nanomaterials to evaluate and manage environmental risks.

Not exact matches

At Battelle, Koper is studying the use of nanomaterials in membranes for water desalination and treatment; supercapacitors (energy - storage devices that provide higher power densities than batteries); and bio-based (rather than petroleum - based) additives used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve natural gas.

This will include Dr James Stern from Albis discussing plastics in healthcare applications, Professor Alexander Seifalian of The London BioScience Innovation Centre covering the development of medical devices using graphene nanomaterials and Lorna O'Gara from Ultrapolymers explaining polymer innovation in healthcare and inter-material replacement for flexible applications.

Nanomaterials used in packaging could leach into food and harm consumers, said Friends of the Earth campaigner Jeremy Tager.

The survey results, submitted to a Budget Estimates Committee in June, showed FSANZ was failing to protect consumers from risks linked with the use of nanomaterials in food packaging, Mr Tager said.

What happens when you excite novel assemblies of nanomaterials using structured light?

Researchers use the large - scale facilities at DESY to explore the microcosm in all its variety — ranging from the interaction of tiny elementary particles to the behaviour of innovative nanomaterials and the vital processes that take place between biomolecules to the great mysteries of the universe.

An international research collaboration led by Drexel's Yury Gogotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering and director of its Nanomaterials Research Group, has created a two - dimensional carbon / sulfur nanolaminate that could be a viable candidate for use as a lithium - sulfur cathode.

Based on that suggestion, the ORNL team hypothesized that it should be possible to measure a nanomaterial's temperature using an electron microscope with an electron beam that is «monochromated» or filtered to select energies within a narrow range.

So far, the Georgia Tech team has produced structures of silver and carbon, but the process could be used to fabricate a wide range of metallic and non-metallic nanomaterials.

It is still unclear what the impact is on humans, animals and plants of synthetic nanomaterials released into the environment or used in products.

Furgeson and his colleagues said that zebrafish could be used to identify «nanomaterial characteristics that afford minimal or no toxicity and guide more rational designs of materials on the nanoscale.»

The Environmental Protection Agency says more 1,300 commercial products use some kind of nanomaterial.

Widespread industrial use of nanomaterials is a relatively new innovation, only becoming common in manufacturing over the past decade.

Kazuaki Sakoda of Japans Nanomaterials Laboratory at the National Institute for Materials Science notes that the «work clearly demonstrates that even Plancks law — the starting point of the era of quantum mechanics [used to predict these interactions]-- can be modified.»

The researchers are using «big data» concepts and techniques to discover and design new nanomaterials — a priority area under the White House's Materials Genome Initiative — using a methodology that will revolutionize materials design, impacting a broad range of products that affect our daily lives, from drugs and agricultural chemicals such as pesticides or herbicides to fuel additives, paints and varnishes, and even personal care products such as shampoo.

Read the news section of journals and keep a close eye on controversial topics: synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, the use of nanomaterials in medicine.

NREL Scientist Chunmei Ban spends a lot of time in the electrochemical storage lab for her work improving lithium - ion batteries through the use of nanomaterials.

Researchers have printed two entirely different images in the same space using special nanomaterials instead of regular inks.

Mark Hersam, a materials scientist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, is developing nanomaterials for a range of uses, such as solar cells and batteries, information technology and biotechnology.

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.

David Sinton and colleagues wanted to see if they could come up with a new paper device with such nanomaterials to test DNA without the use of high - tech facilities.

The EPA plans to issue a report on its findings within two years; the results will be used to regulate chemicals with nanomaterial content under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA).

The technique is extremely powerful for nanomaterials characterization, but if used conventionally, it does not allow for active material manipulation inside the microscope.

Unlike many of the current nanomaterials used to ferry chemotherapies into cells, the ivy nanoparticles don't contain metal, which can be toxic.

To bypass this issue, Scott developed a nanocarrier using self - assembled, filament - shaped nanomaterials, which are loaded with a drug or imaging agent.

«Using injectable self - assembled nanomaterials for sustained delivery of drugs: New injectable delivery system can slowly release drug carriers for months.»

Daniel Packwood, Junior Associate Professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS), is improving methods for constructing tiny «nanomaterials» using a «bottom - up» approach called «molecular self - assembly.»

Some nanomaterials can be printed using aerosol printing techniques.

Now, researchers have developed a new method that uses plasma to print nanomaterials onto a 3 - D object or flexible surface, such as paper or cloth.

Not only can it lead to new methods to detect and treat the brain diseases that amyloid causes, amyloid may also be used as a building block for future nanomaterials.

Over the last few years, the use of nanomaterials for water treatment, food packaging, pesticides, cosmetics and other industries has increased.

«Some novel research on nanomaterials used to capture carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels actually led us to this discovery,» said McGrail.

During the 507th Brookhaven Lecture, Dong Su explains how he and his colleagues are using advanced tools at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven Lab to study materials and determine how different atomic - level structures can improve performance for rechargeable batteries.

A new review article appearing in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) co-authored by Dr. Todd Kuiken, a research associate for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN), focuses on the use of nanomaterials for environmental cleanup.

He has pioneered the use of nanomaterials in energy storage devices and has created numerous breakthrough materials - based solutions that dramatically improve battery capacity and cycle life, including nanostructured silicon anodes, sulfur cathodes, and stable lithium metal anodes.

He has extended DGU to a wide range of nanomaterials and used these purified materials to create novel electronic, plasmonic and energy storage devices.

A study published last week in the journal PNAS by researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, found that the presence of two nanomaterials used in exhaust gases and fertilizers stunt the growth of soybean plants.

These nanomaterials are used both as scaffolds, a supportive framework for nerve cells, and as means of interfaces releasing those signals that empower nerve cells to communicate with each other.

The temperature at the focal point may reach 3,500 °C (6,330 °F), and this heat can be used to generate electricity, melt steel, make hydrogen fuel or nanomaterials.