Sentences with phrase «using tiny particles»

On closer inspection it is a sculptural process using tiny particles...

Using tiny particles of carbon and a material found in shrimp shells, she developed a material that could be used to better treat wounds.

It's a popular goal in nanotechnology these days: using tiny particles as containers to ferry drugs to tumors, among other targets.

Such spookiness, they've found, is essential to quantum computing, which would use tiny particles to store and process information.

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Panasonic has trademarked a unique nanoe ™ technology that takes the moisture from your hair and in the air, and uses it to create tiny, moisture - rich particles that penetrate the shafts of hair.

The «sprayer» used to spray poo into the toilet is splashing tiny little particles of fecal matter into the air on toothbrushes, floor, etc and with a little one crawling around everywhere and putting everything into their mouths, it is HIGHLY unsanitary.

You can use this hand vac to clean up small particles as well as large; it's powerful enough to pick up even the tiniest pieces.

Researchers use the large - scale facilities at DESY to explore the microcosm in all its variety — ranging from the interaction of tiny elementary particles to the behaviour of innovative nanomaterials and the vital processes that take place between biomolecules to the great mysteries of the universe.

In an unlikely marriage of quantum physics and neuroscience, tiny particles called quantum dots have been used to control brain cells for the first time.

Wilson, the sporting goods manufacturer, has nanoengineered layers of clay to double the playing life of its Double Core tennis balls; L'Oréal uses nanoscale particles and capsules in their cosmetic creams that allow replenishing ingredients to penetrate deep into the skin; and the Australian company Advanced Powder Technology has created Zinclear, a translucent zinc oxide sunblock composed of nanoparticles as small as the tiniest known viruses.

The tiniest weights are measured using nanotubes, which vibrate at different frequencies depending on the mass of the particles or molecules on them.

The researchers have developed a kit of new tools including an instrument the size of a cigar box that uses a laser to detect the tiny aerosol particles.

But if such particles can be individually corralled and controlled in large numbers, they may be harnessed as quantum bits, or qubits — tiny units of information whose state or orientation can be used to carry out calculations at rates significantly faster than today's semiconductor - based computer chips.

After a decade of rapidly growing industrial use, unimaginably tiny particles surround us everywhere, every day, in everything we do.

Tiny particles known as nanorods may make cooking utensils more efficient, using less time and energy

Guided by the trapped particle, they then created a tiny pore in the cell membrane using an ultra-short laser pulse from a femtosecond laser.

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) seeks to create those conditions by taking a tiny capsule of fusion fuel (typically a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium) and crushing it at high speed using some form of «driver,» such as lasers, particle beams, or magnetic pulses.

The high voltage is delivered only in very short bursts, using just enough energy to accelerate the tiny electrons without heating up the heavy gas particles pulses; thus, plasma is generated.

Why not use sound waves to coax filters with big pores into catching tiny particles, asked chemical engineer Donald Feke and his colleagues at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

The IZI project team came up with the idea of using tiny polymer particles containing a luminescent dye.

One of the secrets to making tiny laser devices such as opthalmic surgery scalpels work even more efficiently is the use of tiny semiconductor particles, called quantum dots.

«Due to advanced technology used at U.S. - based coal burning power plants, mandated by the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, most of these nanoparticles and other tiny particles are removed before the final emission of the plant's exhaust gases,» Hochella said.

Scientists believe these tiny particles could be used to fight cancer, collect renewable energy and mitigate pollution.

That's the conclusion of a team of scientists using a new approach to study tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols that can influence climate by absorbing or reflecting sunlight and seeding clouds.

This approach uses precision measurement techniques and devices from atomic, quantum, and condensed - matter physics to detect tiny signals due to new particles or forces.

In a paper published this week in Advanced Materials, corresponding author Orlin Velev and colleagues show that, in a water medium, liquid silicone rubber can be used to form bridges between tiny silicone rubber beads to link them together — much as a small amount of water can shape sand particles into sandcastles.

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.

Next, they used a syringe to deposit surfactant, also containing tiny particles, at the air - water - interface — the exact surface of the water.

A team of engineers has created tiny acoustic vortices and used them to grip and spin microscopic particles suspended in water.

Duke University researchers have developed a prototype device that uses sound waves to separate tiny particles called exosomes from blood samples.

Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute and Erik Asphaug of the University of California at Santa Cruz used a highly detailed computer modeling system — one that divided Earth and its impactor into more than 20,000 tiny particles whose interactions under stress both with each other and with gravity were simulated — to investigate their scenario.

Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory now contains over 1,000 nanotechnology - enabled consumer products, reflecting the increasing use of tiny particles in everything from conventional products like non-stick cookware and lighter, stronger tennis racquets, to more unique items such as wearable sensors that monitor posture.

Using the ion soft - landing technique developed at PNNL, the scientists prepared a homogeneous, contaminant - free sample of gold clusters, tiny particles made up of 11 gold atoms each.

Tiny spherical particles of gold and silver that are more than 100 million times smaller than the gold and silver baubles used to decorate seasonal fir trees...

A Washington University researcher holds a piece of paper coated with tiny gold particles that can be used to test blood for Zika virus.

The existing technique, which uses micro - or nano - pores to detect and separate particles, can only detect tiny volumes of material at a time in a single channel, limiting...» More...

Also, one generation of their grippers is doped with iron oxide particles, so the researchers could round up the tiny claws using magnetic fields (ACS Appl.

Setälä and her colleagues used 10 - micrometre (µm) fluorescent polystyrene microspheres, which were roughly the same size as some of the food particles that tiny zooplankton, such as copepods and polychaete larvae, eat.

PULLMAN, Wash. — A promising but little - used type of cancer treatment has been markedly improved by researchers at Washington State University by introducing the use of tiny particles of gold and platinum.

They're the tiny particles used in many...

Basically, the ride control uses shock absorbers that have tiny metal particles floating in the shock fluid, next to an electromagnet.

Very special shock absorbers, developed by then - GM subsidiary Delphi and now used by Ferrari among others, use powerful electro - magnets, tiny metal particles suspended in oil, and high - speed sensors to read road conditions and change damping every millisecond.

The 2018 Audi R8 Coupe comes standard with Audi magnetic ride, which uses a synthetic blend of oils that contain tiny magnetic particles to create a magnetic field within the shock absorber.

The MSRC works by using fluid in the shock absorbers that has tiny metal particles in it.

The 2018 Audi R8 Spyder comes standard with Audi magnetic ride, which uses a synthetic blend of oils that contain tiny magnetic particles to create a magnetic field within the shock absorber.

Audi magnetic ride uses a synthetic blend of oils that contain tiny magnetic particles, adjusting the firmness of the dampers within a few milliseconds by creating a magnetic field within the shock absorber.

E-Ink's Vizplex products use electrophoretic technology, in which tiny microcapsules containing even tinier black and white particles suspended in fluid are sealed into a film that is in turn laminated to a sheet of electronic circuitry.

Most electronic ink and paper screens use a technology called electrophoresis, which sounds complex but simply means using electricity to move tiny particles (in this case ink) through a fluid (in this case a liquid or gel).

Building on the work from the 1970s, the display used electric charge to rotate black and white ink particles inside tiny capsules located in the screen.

Some vets recommend the use of hydrolyzed food, which contain protein that has been broken down into tiny particles which do not trigger and allergic reaction in dogs.