Sentences with phrase «atom by atom»

Nor are they as large as the metre - scale graphene sheets that firms today grow atom by atom from a vapour.

A new kind of microscope reveals the structures of surfaces atom by atom.

What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them (within reason, of course; you can't put them so that they are chemically unstable, for example)... The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom.

Our technology is based on a variant of chemical vapor deposition, which builds the diamond lattice atom by atom in a reactor that creates a plasma akin to the outer core of the sun.

The ultra-precise technique — something Schlom likens to atomic spray painting — allowed the researchers to design and assemble the two different materials atom by atom, layer after layer.

Dr. John Randall is an adjunct professor at UT Dallas and president of Zyvex Labs, a Richardson, Texas - based nanotechnology company specializing in developing tools and products that fabricate structures atom by atom.

«Smallest hard disk to date writes information atom by atom.»

Fashioning individual molecules atom by atom could allow researchers to study atomic collisions in the most controlled environment possible, as well as to observe how molecules behave in isolation.

Jack sent a portion of the sample to the Russians, who mapped the cell wall of a nanobacterium atom by atom.

Sandberg doesn't think a computer would have to calculate the activity of the neurons atom by atom.

A crystal is really just a very large macromolecule, and could be used for richly varied complex chemistry if assembled atom by atom into desired shapes with strategically placed defects and dopants.

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«Scientists have been able to fashion these new substances by assembling them almost atom by atom, creating materials that have properties unlike the larger chunks of the matter from which they're made - much like a diamond and pencil graphite are both composed of carbon but have entirely different properties.

NANO builders rejoice: for the first time scientists have watched crystals grow atom by atom, offering incredible control over their microscopic structure.

«The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom.»

It is not currently feasible to engineer a material atom by atom, let alone control the quadrupolar behavior of electrons.

The revolution began quietly in 1981, when Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer at IBM in Zurich invented the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), which could read a surface atom by atom.

«By building structures atom by atom, you're able to create new, extraordinary materials,» said Randall, who is co-chair of the Jonsson School's Industry Engagement Committee.

What Boger wants is to create a better way to develop drugs: through a process called structure - based design in which scientists build up a new drug, atom by atom, after determining the type of molecule that might interrupt the disease process.

Atom by atom, we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs.

Until now, to overcome the experimental difficulties behind «photographing «proteins, scientists used theoretical models to simulate protein movements, atom by atom.

«To achieve our ultimate goal of better understanding these phenomena, we will start with small systems that we put together atom by atom,» says Prof. Jochim.

«In step toward controlling chemistry, physicists create a new molecule, atom by atom: Study paves the way for creating on, off buttons for chemical reactions.»

Vuletic then engineered a second surface: an ion crystal — essentially, a grid of charged atoms — in order to study friction's effects, atom by atom.

«Atom by atom, bond by bond, a chemical reaction caught in the act.»

«Whatever we find at the poles probably built up atom by atom, molecule by molecule, from impacts all over the globe,» he says.

Even if it were possible, mainstream neuroscientists say, reengineering the brain at the level of detail envisioned by Markram would tell us nothing about cognition, memory or emotion — just as copying the hardware in a computer, atom by atom, would tell us little about the complex software running on it.

Nucleation is at the heart of building — atom by atom — materials with desirable optical and electrical properties.

I want to build a billion tiny factories, models of each other, which are manufacturing simultaneously... The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom.