Sentences with phrase «build microscopic»

Now that we know partial transmission processes can be important, researchers can build microscopic models and simulations to explore them in more detail, and engineers can design devices that enhance or take advantage of this aspect of thermal conductance for a variety of materials.»

Within a few decades, maybe sooner, it should be possible to build microscopic robots that can assemble and replicate themselves.

Staff Writer Bob Service talks with Sarah Crespi about building microscopic teddy bears, doughnuts, and more from genetic material, and using these techniques to push forward fields from materials science to drug delivery.

To test this, Dr. Alexander Badrutdinov, Dr. Oleksandr Smorodin and OIST PhD student Jui - Yin Lin, built a microscopic channel device that contained an electron trap within to isolate a crystal of a relatively small number of electrons.

[Rothemund made headlines in 2006 for building microscopic smiley faces out of programmed DNA.]

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For instance, he predicts that the «forehead» — the black bar that intrudes into the top of the screen on the iPhone X, where all the cameras and sensors go — is an evolutionary detour on the way to a phone that is all screen, with cameras built right in at the microscopic level.

Woven from conductive thread built on microscopic carbon nanotube sheets, this fiber could one day help power human - sized electronic wearables and high - performance solar cells.

Looking back on it, I can definitely see the similarities in terms of what it takes to envision, manage, and build complex structures, whether that's accomplished on the enormous scale of a city or on the microscopic level of a semiconductor chip with billions of transistors.

If you are using too little detergent to release this soil, you will then get a microscopic build up of oils on the surface of the fabric eventually causing it to repel or stink.

They are the microscopic, disordered regions where atom - sized building blocks bind the crystals (i.e. grains) together in materials.

In trying to understand how comets, asteroids, and planets were built from microscopic pieces of dust whirling around the protoplanetary disk, modelers have a problem they call the «aggregation barrier.»

I spent my nights searching for tropical snails and roaches in our Zoological Garden's terrarium building and my days performing genetic fingerprints of microscopic roundworms and rotifers, as well as training the eight - armed octopus to unscrew a glass filled with its favorite food.

It can be used to build a camera or be fashioned into a microscopic factory that churns out drugs and maybe even biofuels.

Using the new methods of micromachining, which borrow technology for making computer chips to carve out and build up microscopic structures on silicon wafers, Peter Gammel and his colleagues at Bell Labs / Lucent Technologies reduced three of the critical devices of a cell phone to Lilliputian size that will allow all the components of a phone to be constructed on a single chip.

Microscopic cages could be built to block light, while letting liquid and gas flow.

Corals, the animals that famously build reefs, get most of their energy and color from microscopic algae that live inside their tissue.

The work builds on JILA's world - leading expertise in measuring positions of microscopic objects.

The males are microscopic (in the order of 100 - 500 microns) and live inside tubes built by the females, where they have only a reproductive function.

To test the underlying mechanisms, they built a large - scale structure that helps mimic the behavior of microscopic particles.

McKay suggested that the Viking Mars lander may have inadvertently oxidized any evidence of life it its samples of Martian soil, proposed an expedition to gather samples of water from the Saturn moon Enceladus, and offered a child - friendly analogy for how alien life might differ from life on Earth: «I could build a table out of Lincoln logs and you could build a table out of Legos: At the macroscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be tables; at the microscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be built from carbon atoms.

Today, this behaviour is very well understood at the microscopic level: magnetism goes back to the angular momentum — the spin — of the electrons in the outer shell of the atoms that build up a solid state crystal.

«Thin microscopic sections of dirt samples show organization of soil grains, revealing whether an earthen structure was human - built or laid down as part of a natural sedimentation process,» Kidder said.

At the microscopic level, the studs make the solar panels look similar to the interlocking LEGO building bricks played with by children across the world.

More important, the technique leaves the underlying tissue unharmed, prefiguring a day when doctors might build miniature sensors directly onto the skin of their patients, or biologists might use microscopic tweezers to capture and study individual cells.

During this microscopic odyssey, the sperm undergoes tumultuous transformations, using some as - yet - unknown materials in the cytoplasm to build a «beacon» to find the female pronucleus, its head of DNA swelling some five times its original size and then later condensing into chromosomes at the end of the journey.

The research builds on Kliman's previous work, which described abnormal, microscopic pits in the skin of the placenta.

The 18 winning entries announced Thursday include a biolfilm imaging technigue that conveys the growth of bacteria; a photograph of micro-scale flows produced by reef - building corals; and a photo of microscopic plant hairs.

Already, Berkeley Lab has world - class research capabilities in other electron - beam microscopic imaging techniques, in building nanostructures, and in a range of X-ray experimental techniques, Filippetto noted.

In a fascinating set of projects we will look at the smallest scales and back in time, probing the mineralogy and composition of micron - sized grains in ancient meteorites using the most sophisticated microscopic techniques, to explore the history of volatiles and organics in planetary building blocks at the time when the Solar System was young.

But Barthelat wasn't about to try to build a shell, brick by microscopic brick.

From their comparatively larger nasal cavities down to a microscopic level, dogs are built to smell.

Repeated rubbing against zippers, denim, and buttons can cause microscopic abrasions to build up quickly, eroding high - performance treatments.

However, some men may require more if they're active athletically or trying to build muscle, because the body requires the amino acids present in protein to repair microscopic muscle damage incurred during training.

Electronic paper, which started out as a project at legendary Silicon Valley research lab PARC in the 1970s, is built around microscopic spheres that are filled with charged particles.

Radon can enter a home or workplace through the hot water tank, sink, shower, and microscopic cracks in a building's foundation.

Put simply, it's an illness that occurs when your cat's red blood cells have been damaged or destroyed by «Heinz bodies», which are microscopic clusters of damaged hemoglobin that build up inside the red blood cells.

Like the previous title, Pikmin 2 is built around the idea of exploring an unknown world through the eyes of a microscopic character.

Compressing macro views of aerial photography into the same picture plane as images of microscopic organisms and silhouettes of disposable plastics, Hockaday explores the gradation in which nature becomes built environments.

Built as a reference to a new railway transport bridge in the suburbs of Athens that was mysteriously sabotaged, the exhibition takes the form of «millions of microscopic fragments of phosphor - coated lamb glass, deformed metal and wood chips are still lying within the tunnel, mixed with the gray crushed stone of the railway».

These series of drawings and paintings also depict structures that occur in nature at a level hidden to the naked eye, but these images of the microscopic are now also used as building blocks to create a composition to which they are conceptually related.

Firstly the amounts being built are microscopic.