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Electron beam microscope directly writes nanoscale features in liquid with metal ink

September 9, 2016

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are the first to harness a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) to directly write tiny patterns in metallic “ink,” forming features in liquid that are finer than half the wi

Direct-write liquid phase transformations with a scanning transmission electron microscope

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January, 2016

Brillouin Light Scattering has revealed the presence of an interfacial layer that controls mechanical reinforcement. By fitting BLS data (red) with a continuum model (blue) the shear modulus of the interface was determined. Inset: The BE SPM work has enab

Key to mechanical reinforcement of glassy polymer nanocomposites has been unraveled

July 26, 2016

Scientists have unraveled details of the mechanism of mechanical reinforcement in glassy polymer nanocomposites.1 Measurements in the interfacial layer ~2–4 nm around nanoparticles revealed that Young’s modulus, which defines the relationship between

Unraveling the Mechanism of Nanoscale Mechanical Reinforcement in Glassy Polymer Nanocomposites

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January, 2016

Rational Design of Bi Nanoparticles for Efficient Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction: The Elucidation of Size and Surface Condition Effects

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January, 2016

Atomistic-Scale Simulations of Defect Formation in Graphene Under Noble Gas Ion Irradiation

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January, 2016

A 32-face 3-D truncated icosahedron mesh was created to test the simulation’s ability to precisely construct complex geometries.

Researchers combine simulation, experiment for nanoscale 3-D printing

August 5, 2016

Designing a 3-D printed structure is hard enough when the product is inches or feet in size.

Simulation-Guided 3D Nanomanufacturing via Focused Electron Beam Induced Deposition

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January, 2016

ORNL optimizes formula for cadmium-tellurium solar cells

August 3, 2016

Solar cells based on cadmium and tellurium could move closer to theoretical levels of efficiency because of some sleuthing by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Structural and compositional dependence of the CdTexSe1−x alloy layer photoactivity in CdTe-based solar cells

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January, 2016