#Metal foams could provide lightweight radiation shielding Radiation generally comes under the heading of"things you want to stay away from,
"We are working to modify the composition of the metal foam to be even more effective than lead at blocking X-rays
In addition, the extraordinary mechanical and thermal properties of composite metal foams, and their energy absorption capabilities, make the material a good candidate for various nuclear structural applications. n
electrically conductive sheets of tiny carbon nanotubes to form a jellyroll-like sheath around a long rubber core.
They expect that this platform of 3d printed programmable release capsules will be useful in applications such as dynamic tissue engineering, 3d printed drug delivery systems, synthetic/artificial tissues, programmable matter,
Unlike their predecessors, the team at IBS stayed away from things like carbon nanotubes and gold and looked at a more utilitarian option for their build material:
In a new study, a team from the Pratt School of engineering pushed semiconductor quantum dots to emit light at more than 90 billion gigahertz.
The quantum dots, in turn, produce a directional, efficient emission of photons that can be turned on and off at more than 90 gigahertz. here is great interest in replacing lasers with LEDS for short-distance optical communication,
and orient the quantum dots to create the fastest fluorescence rates possible. Aside from its potential technological impacts, the research demonstrates that well-known materials need not be limited by their intrinsic properties. y tailoring the environment around a material
In a new study, a team from the Pratt School of engineering pushed semiconductor quantum dots to emit light at more than 90 billion gigahertz.
The quantum dots, in turn, produce a directional, efficient emission of photons that can be turned on and off at more than 90 gigahertz. here is great interest in replacing lasers with LEDS for short-distance optical communication,
and orient the quantum dots to create the fastest fluorescence rates possible. Aside from its potential technological impacts
Professor Cronin's research spans a broad range of topics including electrical and spectroscopic characterization of carbon nanotubes, graphene,
#Rice fine-tunes quantum dots from coal: Rice university scientists gain control of electronic, fluorescent properties of coal-based graphene Abstract:
Quantum dots are semiconducting materials that are small enough to exhibit quantum mechanical properties that only appear at the nanoscale.
Tour's group found they could produce quantum dots with specific semiconducting properties by sorting them through ultrafiltration
The other single-step process involved direct control of the reaction temperature in the oxidation process that reduced coal to quantum dots.
"Quantum dots generally cost about $1 million per kilogram and we can now make them in an inexpensive reaction between coal
The lab found quantum dots that emit blue light were easiest to produce from bituminous coal. The researchers suggested their quantum dots may also enhance sensing, electronic and photovoltaic applications.
For instance, catalytic reactions could be enhanced by manipulating the reactive edges of quantum dots. Their fluorescence could make them suitable for metal
or chemical detection applications by tuning to avoid interference with the target materials'emissions. Rice graduate student Ruquan Ye is lead author of the paper.
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TUNDERSTANDING defects in materials aids in performance predictions March 18th, 2015rice fine-tunes quantum dots from coal: Rice university scientists gain control of electronic, fluorescent properties of coal-based graphene March 18th,
Examples of these types of light sources are fluorescent molecules, nanoparticles, and quantum dots. The JQI work uses quantum dots
which are tiny crystals of a semiconductor material that can emit single photons of light.
Image-dipole distortionsjqi fellow Edo Waks and his colleagues have performed nanoscopic mappings of the electromagnetic field profile around silver nanowires by positioning quantum dots (the emitter) nearby.
Previous work summarized at http://jqi. umd. edu/news/using-single-quantum dots-probe-nanowires. They discovered that sub-wavelength imaging suffered from a fundamental problem,
2015rice fine-tunes quantum dots from coal: Rice university scientists gain control of electronic, fluorescent properties of coal-based graphene March 18th,
2015nanotubes/Buckyballs/Fullerenes Sandia researchers first to measure thermoelectric behavior by'Tinkertoy'materials May 20th, 2015cotton fibres instead of carbon nanotubes May 9th, 2015a better way to build DNA scaffolds:
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2015discoveries A step towards a type 1 diabetes vaccine by using nanotherapy June 10th, 2015investigation of Optical Properties of Quantum dots in Presence of Magnetic, Electrical Fields June 10th,
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a simple but very sensitive sensor based on fluorescence spectroscopy was presented by using cadmium telluride quantum dots to quickly measure protamine drug.
In addition to its high speed, this sensor minimizes environmental pollution due to the use of very low concentration of quantum dots in the production of the sensor and the lack of the need for toxic and organic solvents.
#Biomanufacturing of Cds quantum dots: A bacterial method for the low-cost, environmentally-friendly synthesis of aqueous soluble quantum dot nanocrystals Abstract:
The solution yields extracellular, water-soluble quantum dots from low-cost precursors at ambient temperatures and pressure.
"Quantum dots, which have use in diverse applications such as medical imaging, lighting, display technologies, solar cells, photocatalysts, renewable energy and optoelectronics, are typically expensive and complicated to manufacture.
This newly described process allows for the manufacturing of quantum dots using an environmentally benign process and at a fraction of the cost.
Techconnect is the world's largest accelerator for industry-vetted emerging-technologies ready for commercialization June 11th, 2015investigation of Optical Properties of Quantum dots in Presence of Magnetic, Electrical Fields June 10th,
electrically conductive sheets of tiny carbon nanotubes to form a jellyroll-like sheath around a long rubber core.
"Last year, UT Dallas licensed to Lintec of America a process Baughman's team developed to transform carbon nanotubes into large-scale structures, such as sheets.
Carbon nanotubes have unique properties and they have numerous applications in the production of nanocomposite membranes.
and aligned than carbon nanotubes, another material under investigation for membrane separation. Kumar and co-authors report their development in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science."
and infused it with biocompatible quantum dots tiny, semiconducting crystals made out of zinc and selenium.
and Patchable Strain Sensor for Humanmachine Interfaces Comprising a Nanohybrid of Carbon nanotubes and Conductive Elastomers"),could help robot developers make their machines more human.
"Regarding quantum dots: Semiconductor QDS can produce full-color luminescence through tuning of the particle size.
#Researchers grind nanotubes to get nanoribbons (w/video) A simple way to turn carbon nanotubes into valuable graphene nanoribbons may be to grind them,
The research by Ajayan and his international collaborators appears in Nature Communications("Ambient solid-state mechano-chemical reactions between functionalized carbon nanotubes".
#Biomanufacturing of Cds quantum dots A team of Lehigh University engineers have demonstrated a bacterial method for the low-cost, environmentally friendly synthesis of aqueous soluble quantum dot (QD) nanocrystals at room temperature.
The solution yields extracellular, water-soluble quantum dots from low-cost precursors at ambient temperatures and pressure.
"Quantum dots, which have use in diverse applications such as medical imaging, lighting, display technologies, solar cells, photocatalysts, renewable energy and optoelectronics, are typically expensive and complicated to manufacture.
This newly described process allows for the manufacturing of quantum dots using an environmentally benign process and at a fraction of the cost.
Carbon nanotubes, seamless cylinders of graphene, do not display a total dipole moment, he said. While not zero, the vector-induced moments cancel each other out.
Quantum dots are tiny structures, measuring no more than a few nanometres across, which due to quantum confinement can only assume certain,
Other forms of quantum dots could be used as a sensor in place of the molecule, such as those that can be realized with semiconductor materials:
one example would be made quantum dots of nanocrystals like those already being used in fundamental research h
In a new study, a team from the Pratt School of engineering pushed semiconductor quantum dots to emit light at more than 90 billion gigahertz.
The quantum dots (red) are sandwiched between the silver cube and a thin gold foil. The study was published online on July 27 in Nature Communications("Ultrafast Spontaneous Emission Source Using Plasmonic Nanoantennas"."
This field interacts with quantum dots--spheres of semiconducting material just six nanometers wide--that are sandwiched in between the nanocube and the gold.
The quantum dots in turn, produce a directional, efficient emission of photons that can be turned on and off at more than 90 gigahertz."
and orient the quantum dots to create the fastest fluorescence rates possible. Aside from its potential technological impacts, the research demonstrates that well-known materials need not be limited by their intrinsic properties."
graphene, a conductive polymer and carbon nanotubes, which are atom-thick latticelike networks of carbon formed into cylinders.
and the carbon nanotubes carefully inserted between the graphene layers to form a self-assembled flat-packed,
The result was a 3d shape with, thanks to the carbon nanotubes, a massive surface area, excellent charge capacity that is also foldable.
and aligned than carbon nanotubes, another material under investigation for membrane separation. Kumar and co-authors report their development in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science("Highly permeable artificial water channels that can self-assemble into two-dimensional arrays"."
2015 A new breed of quantum dots (QDS) could enable multilayer solar cells that capture more of the sun energy.
Individual germanium quantum dots were coated with silicon dioxide (silica), doped to make them p-type, and then deposited, using Natcore's liquid phase deposition (LPD) process,
or germanium quantum dots into layers using a process such as Natcore, which appears to be ideal for mass production,
which quantum dots are used to form both the p-type and n-type materials. Once this next step is achieved
The researchers were also able to insert carbon nanotubes into the dry object so that it could conduct electricity.
Carbon nanotubes are very strong and very flexible so they could also be used to make flexible displays
Carbon nanotubes are single atomic sheets of carbon rolled up into a tube. As some of the best electrical conductors ever discovered carbon nanotubes have long been recognized as a promising material for next-generation transistors
which are semiconductor devices that can act like an on-off switch for current or amplify current. This forms the foundation of an electronic device.
However researchers have struggled to isolate purely semiconducting carbon nanotubes which are crucial because metallic nanotube impurities act like copper wires and short the device.
Building on more than two decades of carbon nanotube research in the field the UW-Madison team drew on cutting-edge technologies that use polymers to selectively sort out the semiconducting nanotubes achieving a solution of ultra-high-purity semiconducting carbon nanotubes.
"Unlike other ultra strong materials such as carbon nanotubes, Kevlar is said an insulator Nicholas Kotov, the Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Engineering."
#Biomanufacturing of Cds quantum dots A team of Lehigh University engineers have demonstrated a bacterial method for the low-cost, environmentally friendly synthesis of aqueous soluble quantum dot (QD) nanocrystals at room temperature.
The solution yields extracellular, water-soluble quantum dots from low-cost precursors at ambient temperatures and pressure.
"Quantum dots, which have use in diverse applications such as medical imaging, lighting, display technologies, solar cells, photocatalysts, renewable energy and optoelectronics, are typically expensive and complicated to manufacture.
This newly described process allows for the manufacturing of quantum dots using an environmentally benign process and at a fraction of the cost.
to pass through two separate"quantum dots"--small crystals that have quantum properties.""If we could detect a superconducting current,
when they have been separated between the quantum dots. We confirm this separation by measuring a superconducting current that develops
"The quantum dots, each around 100 nanometers in size, were grown at random positions on a semiconductor chip.
the team was able to show clearly that the spin of the electrons remained entangled as they passed through the separate quantum dots."
Unlike their predecessors, the team at IBS stayed away from things like carbon nanotubes and gold and looked at a more utilitarian option for their build material:
#Metal foams capable of shielding X-rays, gamma rays, neutron radiation Research shows lightweight composite metal foams are effective at blocking X-rays, gamma rays and neutron radiation,
The finding means metal foams hold promise for use in nuclear safety, space exploration and medical technology applications."
"This work means there's an opportunity to use composite metal foam to develop safer systems for transporting nuclear waste, more efficient designs for spacecraft and nuclear structures,
Rabiei first developed the strong, lightweight metal foam for use in transportation and military applications. But she wanted to determine
The most effective composite metal foam against all three forms of radiation is called"high-Z steel-steel
so that the composite foam that included tungsten was not denser than metal foam made entirely of stainless steel.
"However, we are working to modify the composition of the metal foam to be even more effective than lead at blocking X-rays
In addition, the extraordinary mechanical and thermal properties of composite metal foams, and their energy absorption capabilities, make the material a good candidate for various nuclear structural applications
and aligned than carbon nanotubes, another material under investigation for membrane separation. Kumar and co-authors report their development in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science."
Carbon nanotubes are single atomic sheets of carbon rolled up into a tube. As some of the best electrical conductors ever discovered
carbon nanotubes have long been recognized as a promising material for next-generation transistors, which are semiconductor devices that can act like an on-off switch for current
However, researchers have struggled to isolate purely semiconducting carbon nanotubes, which are crucial, because metallic nanotube impurities act like copper wires and hortthe device.
achieving a solution of ultra-high-purity semiconducting carbon nanotubes. Previous techniques to align the nanotubes resulted in less than-desirable packing density,
#One-atom-thin silicon transistors hold promise for super-fast computing Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of engineering have created the first transistors made of silicene, the world thinnest silicon material.
silicene has outstanding electrical properties but has until now proved difficult to produce and work with.
solved one of the major challenges surrounding silicene by demonstrating that it can be made into transistors emiconductor devices used to amplify and switch electronic signals and electrical power.
Until a few years ago, human-made silicene was a purely theoretical material. Looking at carbon-based graphene
Akinwande, who also works on graphene transistors, sees value in silicene relationship to silicon, which chipmakers already know how to work with. part from introducing a new player in the playground of 2-D materials, silicene,
with its close chemical affinity to silicon, suggests an opportunity in the road map of the semiconductor industry,
Akinwande said. he major breakthrough here is the efficient low-temperature manufacturing and fabrication of silicene devices for the first time.
silicene has proved extremely difficult to create and work with because of its complexity and instability when exposed to air.
to develop a new method for fabricating the silicene that reduces its exposure to air.
They then formed a silicene sheet on a thin layer of silver and added a nanometer-thick layer of alumina on top.
They were then able to gently scrape some of the silver to leave behind two islands of metal as electrodes, with a strip of silicene between them.
and methods for creating silicene, which may lead to low energy, high-speed digital computer chips p
#Graphene displays clear prospects for flexible electronics Published in the scientific journal Nature Materials, University of Manchester and University of Sheffield researchers show that new 2d esigner materialscan be produced to create flexible, see-through and more efficient electronic devices.
or even to growing arrays of carbon nanotubes, which his group is also studying. his is high-quality research that represents significant progress on the path to scalable production methods for large-area graphene,
and infused it with biocompatible quantum dots tiny, semiconducting crystals made out of zinc and selenium.
The researchers used quantum dots in strontium titanate to observe the electron pairs. Quantum dots are small regions of a material in
which the number of electrons can be controlled precisely, in this case using an electrostatic gate. The quantum dots were large enough to support a superconducting phase at low temperatures
but the researchers observed that the dots always preferred an even number of electrons in the new phase at higher temperatures.
and measured 58 quantum dots with varying dimensions and barriers between the quantum dots and the leads.
#Single Atom Building blocks For Future Electronics The material is called a silicene, a layer of silicon single atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern that was fabricated first by researchers at UOW Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) and their partners in Europe and China.
and Dr Yi Du have published breakthrough research into a new material call silicene. An ISEM team led by Professor Shi Xue Dou
and Dr Yi Du have published breakthrough research into a new material call silicene. Silicene great promise is related to how electrons can streak across it at incredible speed
close to the speed of light. Propelling the electrons in silicene requires minimal energy input, which means reducing power and cooling requirements for electronic devices. f silicene could be used to build electronic devices,
it could enable the semiconductor industry to achieve the ultimate in miniaturization, Dr Yi Du,
a research fellow at the ISEM, said. The difficulty for researchers, according to Dr Du, is that up until a couple of years ago,
was the first research group in Australia to make silicene and recently, using state-of-the-art equipment,
and modifying silicene so it can be integrated it into ultra-small renewable energy devices, such as solar cells,
data storage hardware and advancing quantum computing. uow195685 o one in the scientific community believed silicene paper could be made
and place them one at a time on a plate to form the silicene paper. he process is like laying bricks,
and high-quality silicene layers that are large enough for integrated circuits, Dr Du said. here is also work to be done in developing ways to peel
and transfer the silicene layers from the base it has been assembled on, as well as embed electrodes in it. s
Carbon nanotubes, seamless cylinders of graphene, do not display a total dipole moment, he said. While not zero, the vector-induced moments cancel each other out.
which was able to simulate water flow in carbon nanotubes at very low speeds an activity that would normally require the equivalent of up to 40,000 years of processing power on a single computer.
simulations of water flow in carbon nanotubes could only be carried out under unrealistically high flow-rate conditions says the Director of CNMM, Quanshui Zheng. hanks to World Community Grid,
Associate professor Shen explains the ongoing research. e plan to explicitly include the effects of defects in carbon nanotubes,
or quantum dots, of controlled size and position. he technique allows two different materials to be incorporated into the same nanowire,
electrically conductive sheets of tiny carbon nanotubes to form a jellyroll-like sheath around a long rubber core.
Last year, UT Dallas licensed to Lintec of America a process Baughman team developed to transform carbon nanotubes into large-scale structures, such as sheets.
The quantum dots (red) are sandwiched between the silver cube and a thin gold foil. At its most basic level, your smart phone battery is powering billions of transistors using electrons to flip on and off billions of times per second.
In a new study, a team from the Pratt School of engineering pushed semiconductor quantum dots to emit light at more than 90 gigahertz.
The quantum dots, in turn, produce a directional, efficient emission of photons that can be turned on and off at more than 90 gigahertz. here is great interest in replacing lasers with LEDS for short-distance optical communication,
with red quantum dots sandwiched between. he eventual goal is to integrate our technology into a device that can be excited either optically
and orient the quantum dots to create the fastest fluorescence rates possible. Aside from its potential technological impacts
#Metal foam provides lightweight radiation shielding Nuclear, space exploration and medical applications abound for low-density, nontoxic structural shielding materials Lightweight composite metal foams can absorb energy from impacts
and block X-rays, gamma rays and neutron radiation, according to a study from North carolina State university. The discovery means the materials could be useful in spacecraft, the nuclear industry and in medicine.
we are working to modify the composition of the metal foam to be even more effective than lead at blocking X-rays
said that researchers had created the smallest laser possible powered by single electrons that burrow through quantum dots.
Boffins undertook the study to create a better understanding of how to use double quantum dots (two quantum dots joined together) as the basic units of information, known as qubits, in quantum computers.
Getting the double quantum dots to"communicate with each other"was the end goal explained physics grad Yinyu Liu,
These double quantum dots are zero-dimensional as far as the electrons are concerned they are trapped in all three spatial dimensions.
#Princeton Researchers Develop Rice Sized Laser Princeton university researchers have built a rice sized laser powered by single electrons tunneling through artificial atoms known as quantum dots.
Quantum dots are nanocrystals, which are made of semiconductor materials that are small enough to exhibit quantum mechanical properties.
icrowave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation The researchers wanted to explore the use of double quantum dots,
Researchers stated that the goal was to get to double quantum dots to communicate with each other. They used extremely thin nanowires that were made of indium arsenide to fabricate the quantum dots.
The placed the qubits 6 mm apart in a cavity that was made from niobium at a temperature near absolute zero(-459 degrees Fahrenheit.
These double quantum dots are zero-dimensional as far as the electrons are concerned they are trapped in all three spatial dimensions
The study was started to explore the quantum dots, and not lasers. Quantum dots act like single atoms,
as components for quantum computers. The maser is a tiny, rice grain sized laser that is powered by a single electron from the artificial atoms called quantum dots.
Jason Petta an associate professor of physics at Princeton and the lead author of the study,
The researcher added that they were interested initially in exploring the use of quantum dots together. That means two quantum dots joined together as quantum bits or qubits.
Qubits are the basic unit of information in quantum computing. e designed dots to emit photons
These double quantum dots are zero-dimensional as far as the electrons are concerned they are trapped in all three spatial dimensions,
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