Sentences with phrase «uses nanoribbons»
Dagdeviren designed a flexible and stretchable sensor that uses nanoribbons to generate small charges to measure skin's elasticity.
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The researchers used an advanced simulation method called molecular dynamics to demonstrate thermal rectification in structures called «asymmetric graphene nanoribbons.»
Hu, Ruan, and Chen also published a paper four years ago in the journal Nano Letters, among the first to propose asymmetric graphene nanoribbons as a thermal rectifier in research using the molecular dynamics simulations.
Ultimately, the model could be applied to semiconductors used as high - efficiency thermoelectrics, and to graphene nanoribbons used as heat sinks for so - called ultra large scale integration devices, such as computer microprocessors.
Various methods of making graphene - based field effect transistors (FETs) have been exploited, including doping graphene tailoring graphene - like a nanoribbon, and using boron nitride as a support.
One research group first stuck the nanotubes to a polymer film, then used argon gas to etch away a strip from each tube to produce the nanoribbons.
«Using standard lithography fabrication techniques, studies have seen mobility of 100 cm2 / Vs or even lower, but our material still exceeds 2000 cm2 / Vs even at the sub-10 nanometer scale, demonstrating that these nanoribbons are of very high quality.»
But there are ways to give the material a band gap, including using two separated strips of graphene fabricated as «nanoribbons.»
«Swapping substrates improves edges of graphene nanoribbons: Using inert boron nitride instead of silica creates precise zigzag edges in monolayer graphene.»
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) bend and twist easily in solution, making them adaptable for biological uses like DNA analysis, drug delivery and biomimetic applications, according to scientists at Rice University.
The sensitivity of graphene bio-devices can be improved by using narrow graphene materials like nanoribbons.»
Wijeratne noted graphene nanoribbons are already being tested for use in DNA sequencing, in which strands of DNA are pulled through a nanopore in an electrified material.
In another, scientists used graphene nanoribbons to create a scaffold for neurons to grow along.