Sentences with phrase «atomic scale level»

In just a little over a year of operation, Ames Laboratory's dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) solid - state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer has successfully characterized materials at the atomic scale level with more speed and precision than ever possible before.

Atomic force microscopes (AFMs) are among the most powerful tools available for probing surfaces at the atomic scale level.

Not exact matches

«This is the first study, to our knowledge, that demonstrates the mechanical continuity, strain transfer, and conformational changes that result from chemical energy release from the atomic scale up through the whole - cell level, as well as how tensegrity guides those changes to drive cellular movement,» says Ingber.

They used this novel simulation approach to build a model of a sperm cell that demonstrates cellular movement from individual dynein protein molecules in the tail all the way up to the whole cell, allowing them to observe how changes at the atomic level are reflected in larger - scale structures.

Water's behavior was tested with three different approaches: ultrafast optical measurements, which revealed the arrangement of molecules on the nanometric scale; a computer simulation on the atomic scale; and measurement of the water's surface structure and tension, which was done at the macroscopic level.

In the world of nano - scale technology, where work is conducted at the atomic level, even the smallest changes can have an enormous impact.

«Obtaining such precise, atomic - level information over length scales relevant to battery technologies was a challenge,» said Quentin Ramasse, Director of the SuperSTEM Laboratory.

«Now that we know the structure of these materials, we can start studying how their atomic - level arrangement affects their large - scale properties.»

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are widely used to study protein motions at an atomic level of detail, but they have been limited to time scales shorter than those of many biologically critical conformational changes.

The study examined the small - scale mechanical behaviour of teeth from limpets using atomic force microscopy, a method used to pull apart materials all the way down to the level of the atom.

«Previously we had only a cartoon - level model of how this so - called «sliding filament» mechanism works, but the new work takes it to the next level and opens up the possibility of learning how it really works at an atomic scale, which is exciting,» Scholey said.

Describing billions of atomic level interactions in such small time scales, while also needing to reference the atomic database, is currently too computationally expensive.

Dr. Yu's research has evolved to understand interfacial phenomena at the fundamental atomic and molecular level that are relevant to the observed changes across multiple time and space scales in the environment, with implications in biological systems (e.g., biofilm and cell), aerosol, catalysis, and materials.

To evaluate ceramic waste form performance over the time scales needed to store nuclear waste, around 100,000 years, scientists need a thorough understanding of the fundamental physics at the atomic level.

Our tools support research down to the atomic scale through creation of high performance, cryogen - free low temperature and magnetic environments, based upon our core technologies in low and ultra-low temperatures, high magnetic fields and system integration, with ever - increasing levels of experimental and measurement readiness.

Nanotechnology is an inter-disciplinary subject of science, engineering and technology that deals with the contriving of matter at atomic, sub-atomic, molecular level at Nano scale dimensions of 1 - 100nm.

And then you can move to levels of unobservable explanations that maybe are at the atomic level, or are on different scales.

Once the material was declassified, Conner spliced and manipulated the footage into a terrifying yet beautiful atomic levels of destruction of a monumental scale.

An averaging process is involved going up from the atomic scale via kinetic theory to the level of fluid motions, but chaos emerges at that scale (ie the averaged quantities exhibit chaotic behaviour).