Sentences with phrase «work as electrodes»

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The results of this work could lead to the ability to design materials that have extensive surface areas that can be used in batteries as high durability silicon electrodes.

The Caltech team is now working on downsized versions that will have as many as 100 electrodes and be small enough to be implanted inside the skull, thereby reducing the risk of infection.

«It was the most difficult chemistry» to make work but had potential benefits due to calcium's low cost as well as its inherent high voltage as a negative electrode.

The electrode stunt was dreamed up by a group of US army reservists working as military policemen at the prison.

Batteries that have solid - state electrolytes work in high temperatures, but the electrolytes don't connect as well with electrodes, which hurts performance.

When working with nano structures such as atoms, which measure only 0.3 nanometers, three electrodes would inevitably cause a short - circuit.

A comprehensive look at how tiny particles in a lithium ion battery electrode behave shows that rapid - charging the battery and using it to do high - power, rapidly draining work may not be as damaging as researchers had thought — and that the benefits of slow draining and charging may have been overestimated.

We hope that this result will accelerate the automation and miniaturization of gel electrophoresis, which in turn can make medical diagnoses and DNA sequencing cheaper, faster, and more reliable,» says Assoc. Prof. Nathaniel Robinson, leader of the research group, on their «work as a logical extension of previous studies on conducting polymer electrodes in electrokinetic systems.»

«This is a tremendous innovation for in situ studies as a new means to interrogate the chemical language of microbial system interactions, as well as being relative to the discovery and development of new electrode materials for energy storage,» said Dr. Louis Terminello, who leads chemical imaging work at PNNL.

To make these batteries more stable, researchers have traditionally worked to develop protective coatings for their electrodes, and to develop new polymer binders that act as the glue holding battery components together.

Led by Prof Coleman, in collaboration with the groups of Prof Georg Duesberg (AMBER) and Prof. Laurens Siebbeles (TU Delft, Netherlands), the team used standard printing techniques to combine graphene nanosheets as the electrodes with two other nanomaterials, tungsten diselenide and boron nitride as the channel and separator (two important parts of a transistor) to form an all - printed, all - nanosheet, working transistor.

Their approach and electrode options complement the CSNE's work in data acquisition and brain electrophysiology, especially as the CSNE looks toward increasing channel count and further leveraging opotogenetics.

As part of his work with the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), Dr. Sam Kassegne, one of the CSNE's Communication and Interface research leaders and CSNE deputy director at San Diego State University (SDSU), along with his SDSU colleagues and students, is developing a special kind of electrode to be used in brain - computer interfaces.

As the subjects were doing the exercises, researchers measured their muscle activity using electrodes that detect the electrical impulses sent to the muscle (which is, put simply, a way to measure how hard a muscle is working).

Not only do I boast of a great ability to explain functions and procedures of EKG exams to patients, I am well - versed in actually operating EKG machines, and handling peripheral work duties, such as attaching electrodes to patients in order to monitory heart activity, and adjusting controls to the specifics of each patient.

In 1983 and 1986, his research team monitored more than a hundred married couples in Indiana and Illinois with electrodes, video cameras, and microphones as they attempted to work out real conflicts.