Physical Sciences

APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Air and land transportation vehicles Safety equipment Sports equipment Mining Building materials ADVANTAGES: Components are commercially available Yields a true hybrid material, not a mixture of components Adds thermal and electronic tunability properties to Kevlar®-containing systems ABSTRACT: Alex Zettl, Jean … [Read more...] about Kevlar®-functionalized Nanotubes IB-2873

APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: High speed, low power electronic devices Sensors Semiconductor devices and fabrication equipment ADVANTAGES: Scalable Precision control of nanoribbon length, width, and position Multiple catalyst candidates Potential to introduce graphene band gaps in nanoribbons ~1 nm wide ABSTRACT: Berkeley Lab scientist Yuegang … [Read more...] about Catalyst Patterning for Scalable CVD Growth of Graphene Nanoribbon IB-3034

APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Superconducting single photon detectors Transition edge detectors Superconducting transistors SQUID magnetometry NEMS Chemical detectors Photovoltaic devices Quantum computation ADVANTAGES: Applications limited only by dopant used Ease of production Ease of measurement Tunability by a simple electric field Can … [Read more...] about Tunable Graphene Electronic Devices JIB-2697

APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Semiconductors Photonics Photovoltaics ADVANTAGES: Produce smallest building block of an armchair nanotube Serve as templates for making uniform nanotube structures at high yields Permit rational design of nanotubes Method may be used to synthesize other nanotube structures ABSTRACT: Ramesh Jasti and Carolyn Bertozzi of … [Read more...] about Carbon Nanohoops: Molecular Templates for Precision Nanotube Synthesis IB-2753

APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Optics Platform for nanoscale electronic and spintronic devices, mechanical resonators TEM support grids Sensors Thermal management ADVANTAGES: Straightforward process Achieves wide band-gap semiconducting properties not found in graphene Yields a strong material Thermally highly conductive while electrically … [Read more...] about Ultrathin Boron Nitride Sheets IB-2788