Sentences with phrase «years materials scientists»

For years materials scientists have tried reconstructing cell membranes following nature's recipe, which calls for fat - based molecules called phospholipids as the main ingredient.

For years Ravinder Dahiya has been developing thin and flexible electronics, the kind that could be used for synthetic skin, and for years the material scientist has wrestled with various obstacles.

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To write «Command and Control,» Schlosser spent more than six years steeped in declassified government materials and interviewed military experts, scientists, and «broken arrow» eyewitnesses.

For ten years I worked with rabbis, scientists, environmentalists and writers around the country to create educational materials that would bring to life the ecological dimensions of the Bible and Judaism.

When mothers say they feel their child is a part of them, scientists can detect physical proof of genetic material of these women's babies still in their bodies years later.

Over the next six years, scientists noticed that the plumes varied in brightness (a proxy for how much material is gushing from the moon) on a daily cycle, probably driven by Saturn's different positions in Enceladus» sky.

A model of the flows in Earth's mantle below North America, developed by the scientists, reveals that the mantle material below 200 kilometers flows westward at a velocity of about 4 millimeters per year.

The new model «came out of left field, but it's very original,» says materials scientist Graham Hubler of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., who saw ball lightning as a teenager during a thunderstorm in upstate New York 40 years ago.

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In the last 3 years almost half of academic geneticists (47 %) had been denied access to published information, data, and materials by other academic scientists.

Last year, researchers demonstrated that certain states of the crystalline material spin ice would create monopoles that rove about the crystal (New Scientist, 9 May, p 28).

The 45 - year - old materials scientist has spent more than 15 years developing electronics that can bend and stretch without breaking.

Paleontologists at the University of Bonn, together with scientists from the Alexander Koenig Research Museum in Bonn as well as the Universities of Kassel, Gdańsk (Poland) and Lucknow (India) with the Museum for Materials Research at the Helmholtz - Zentrum Geesthacht, have now discovered and described a new species in 54 million - year - old amber.

«It hit me that we've been calculating chlorophyll profiles from surface measurements for more than thirty years, but we don't know what the depth profiles of other biogeochemically - important materials look like,» said Barney Balch, a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory and lead author on the paper.

But early this year, Princeton materials scientists Steven Atkinson, Frank Stillinger and Salvatore Torquato found significantly less dense configurations by pushing the pennies together as if they were on a shrinkable pad of rubber rather than a rigid table, until reaching the «no closer» point.

The MAINZ Graduate School of Excellence was originally approved as part of the Federal and State Excellence Initiative in 2007 and received a five - year funding extension in the second round in 2012 — a tremendous boost for the Mainz - based materials scientists and for the sponsorship of young researchers at JGU.

Materials scientists have been working on components that can flex and roll for years.

One group, led by Ryan O'Hayre, a materials scientist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, reported last year in Science that it had produced an intermediate temperature fuel cell capable of producing 455 mW / cm2.

Scientists and engineers have worked for years to replicate the light, tough, strong and stiff properties of natural materials, either with hard and soft components or combinations of different platelet types.

A team led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that the type of plant inputs (that is, root or needle litter) affected total carbon and nitrogen retention over 10 years, but that soil horizon (essentially, the layer of soil, such as the topsoil organic or deeper mineral layers) affected how the litter - derived soil organic material is stabilized in the long term.

Siding Spring will be the first comet from the Oort Cloud to be studied up close by spacecraft, giving scientists an invaluable opportunity to learn more about the materials, including water and carbon compounds, that existed during the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago.

For years, scientists have been seeking ways to make certain materials less reflective.

Scientists have been working for years to create materials that have this property.

Much of the debris the scientists found rafted ashore was made of fiberglass or other plastic materials that do not decompose and could easily survive six or more years at sea.

Ten years later, scientists now search for other materials that have the same level of potential.

Jay Keasling (right) engineers microorganisms to produce life - saving drugs, energy - saving fuels and improved materials — work that earned him the title of Discover's Scientist of the Year in 2006.

If confirmed, the finding could give scientists an unprecedented look at pristine samples of the original material that bonded to form comets, asteroids and planets nearly 4.6 billion years ago.

Last year, scientists predicted that some of the material spewed out into space by the icy geysers at Enceladus's south pole would slowly fall down to certain areas on the surface.

Also this year, the materials science division plans to give a dozen or so young scientists who show exceptional promise a 2 - year «creativity extension» of their current grant to explore new directions, offsetting some of the conservatism that comes with a stagnant budget.

Materials scientist P. Rama Rao, a former secretary to the Department of Science and Technology, said he got a surprise when he and his wife applied for visas recently: His wife got a 10 - year visa whereas P. Rama Rao himself received only 1 - year visa.

It also forced scientists to rethink their ideas about how comets transported water and organic material around the newborn solar system 4.6 billion years ago.

For instance, ANR should invite more bottom - up projects and extend grants to 5 years, said materials scientist and honorary university professor Roger Fougères, who chaired some of the debates.

In recent years, scientists have explored a variety of responsive materials as the basis for 3D - printed inks.

Optical physicists have been using spiraling laser beams, in which light waves are twisted into vortices, for almost 30 years, says Jo Verbeeck, a materials scientist at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and first author on the Nature paper.

For years, scientists and engineers have synthesized materials at the nanoscale level to take advantage of their mechanical, optical, and energy properties, but efforts to scale these materials to larger sizes have resulted in diminished performance and structural integrity.

This unprecedented feat culminates years of efforts by scientists around the world to harness this promising material.

It took over 30 years from Veselago's prediction for scientists to create a negative - index material in the form of metamaterials, which are engineered on a subwavelength scale.

It was a helpful experience for me, because after a few years of concentrating on the résumés of senior scientists, board members, and vice presidents, I needed a refresher in what entry - level marketing materials look like today from new grads and postdocs.

That idea isn't new, Snaith points out: For years, scientists have been layering various solar cell materials in this way.

A University of Texas at Dallas graduate student, his advisor and industry collaborators believe they have addressed a long - standing problem troubling scientists and engineers for more than 35 years: How to prevent the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material during imaging or lithography.

Scientists clone an animal by taking an egg cell, removing its genetic material, and replacing it with the nucleus of a cell from the animal they wish to clone — in Dolly's case, a mammary cell from a 6 - year - old sheep.

Throughout the years, Brookhaven's scientists and visiting researchers have used these unique facilities to make discoveries in biology, physics, chemistry, geophysics, medicine, and materials science.

«The scientists collaborating on this project have a vision of future quantum materials and quantum devices — new devices and systems that were not conceived to be possible 10 years ago.

This year's recently announced American Physical Society (APS) Fellows includes five scientists from Berkeley Lab, two from the Materials Sciences Division and one each from the Accelerator and Fusion Research, Nuclear Science, and Engineering divisions.

About 10 years ago, scientists realized that Majorana fermions might also be created in experiments that explore the physics of materials — and the race was on to make that happen.

For years, scientists have been trying to recreate the complex neural systems that enable human skin to sense touch by building pressure sensors into various materials.

«What UCLA offers is a brilliant set of engineers, material scientists and economists who have been working on pieces of this problem for 10, 20, 30 years,» he said.

In the months and years after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, scientists were able to track the spread of radioactive material in the atmosphere and the ocean around the globe.

The student challenge is different each year, and Science Buddies» senior staff scientists work to convert the adult challenge into something accessible and engaging for students and with materials that are readily available around the world.

«For years, scientists at the APS have used these techniques to deepen our understanding of a wide variety of materials, from soil samples to new materials to biological matter,» said Kamel Fezzaa from sector 32 - ID at the APS.