Sentences with phrase «called ion»

Saturn also will introduce a new small car later this year — called the Ion — to replace the S - series cars that built the Saturn brand beginning in 1991.

Ions can not normally pass through the membrane; they rely on protein tunnels (called ion channels) that connect the inside of a neuron to the outside.

To do that, scientists use the technique called ion soft landing to select a particular ion of interest from the mixture of other ionic species in solution and deposit it onto electrodes.

Basically, it's called ion of the hydrogen.

What he found was that this switch, called an ion channel, controls the flow of calcium into immune cells called macrophages.

In order to measure the proportions of the oxygen isotopes in the zircons, the team, led by scientist Alexander Nemchin, used a device called an ion microprobe.

A team of biophysicists from the State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) at Buffalo used magnetic nanoparticles to control heat - activated protein gates called ion channels embedded in the membranes of nerve cells, allowing the researchers to stimulate a simple reflex in nematode worms at will.

The first electron will come off fairly easily, leaving an object with a net positive charge (called an ion).

These events are directed by specialized proteins called ion channels that allow the flow of calcium ions in and out of cells and among cell compartments.

In mammals, proteins called ion channels embedded in the cell membrane translate temperature information into electrical signals that activate nerve cells.

Hair - cell physiologists don't know yet what the pore — called an ion channel — looks like, but some interesting biophysical properties suggest the channel is very fast and sensitive.

This process, called ion channelling, is the focus of a new paper by Mallikarjuna Motapothula and Mark Breese working at the National University of Singapore.

Their calculations indicate that the planet's atmosphere could lose 3 to 5 times as many charged particles, a process called ion escape.

Unlike water or regular ice, in superionic ice the water molecules dissociate into charged atoms called ions, with the oxygen ions locked in a solid lattice, while the hydrogen ions move like the molecules in a liquid.

The tool, known as DESI mass spectrometry imaging (or Desorption ElectroSpray Ionization mass spectrometry imaging), works by turning molecules into electrically charged versions of themselves, called ions, so that they can be identified by their mass.

Scientists have long known that brain cells communicate via electrical missives, created by charged atoms and molecules called ions as they travel across the membranes of those cells.

Instead, our current knowledge of materials is derived from a simplified perspective where electrons in solids are described in terms of special non-interacting particles, called quasiparticles, that move in the effective field created by charged entities called ions and electrons.

To «recharge» a neuron, charged particles called ions must travel through miniscule ionic channels.

The sun is a ball of superhot gases made up of electrically charged particles called ions.

Methods: Like most metals, cesium dissolves in water as charged atoms called ions.

Not exact matches

Apple and other smartphone makers use a technology called lithium ion for their batteries.

Many conventional lithium - ion batteries that power electronics today use the format called «18 - 650,» which stands for 18 millimeters in diameter and 65 millimeters in length (the zero in the name is just an add - on).

However, Tesla's Gigafactory, which is supposed to produce its first battery cells by the end of this year, plans to produce a new format of lithium - ion batteries called the «21 - 70.»

A negatively charged surface (called a counter electrode) then brings the ions and their attached particles back in to the tower, where they are collected and stored.

SolidEnergy, by contrast, can use existing lithium - ion manufacturing processes, to produce what founder and CEO Qichao Hu calls «real - world batteries.»

ion's unparalleled design capabilities empower marketers and designers to selectively draw attention to conversion - focused content and calls - to - action.

Tesla has announced it is teaming with Panasonic to build what it calls a Gigafactory to produce lithium ion batteries in the United States.

«PAR» SK USA's proprietary antibacterial, sanitizing, and negative - ion - generating process called UP - SKIN, an environmentally friendly method of treating leather.

After entering axons through activated TRPV4 channels, calcium ions appear to disrupt the microtubule cytoskeleton by inhibiting a microtubule - stabilizing protein called STOP.

The researchers found that puffing activated a mechanosensitive channel protein called TRPV4, which is enriched in the membrane of neuronal axons and allows calcium ions to enter the cell.

The concept, called Neptune, leverages the technological heritage of gridded - ion thrusters.

Historically, the fractions (which we call the abundances) of the different atoms in the interstellar gas have been measured using the distinct spectral «footprint» of each ion in the spectrum, which is a characteristic set of spectral lines.

Jerome Loreau of the Free University of Brussels calls it the mystery molecule (or rather the «mystery ion,» since it carries an electric charge), and for good reason.

There are basically two types of lines, those produced by collisions between the atoms or ions and the electrons in the surrounding gas, which are called collision lines, and which are very bright for elements such as oxygen, nitrogen and neon, and lines which are produced when ions capture free electrons, which are called recombination lines, and which are bright only for those gases with the highest abundances in the interstellar medium: hydrogen and helium.

In his research, Robin Ramstad has combined and compared measurements of the ion escape under varying solar wind conditions and levels of ionizing solar radiation, so - called extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation.

The video relies on a cascade of chemical reactions: When a neurotransmitter called kainate binds to the surface of an astrocyte, a molecular floodgate opens and sodium ions rush in.

MOFs are microscopic - scale porous crystals engineered from metal ions bound together by organic molecules called ligands.

The calcium ion also forces the electrons in the water molecule to shift, a phenomenon called electronic polarization.

When you stimulate a neuron, ions like sodium and potassium and chloride flow back and forth, causing what's called an action potential to travel down the neuron, through the axon, to a synapse.

For this purpose, scientists from the Excellence Cluster QUEST at the Physikalisch - Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) used laser - cooled ions in so - called «ion Coulomb crystals.»

When this water, called submarine groundwater discharge (SGD), trickles through contaminated soil and rock, it can pick up and transport a variety of ions, nutrients, and chemicals to the sea — including pollutants that contribute to coastal dead zones and toxic algal blooms.

Analysis of the water leaving Venus's atmosphere, however, shows that many of the hydrogen ions are actually a stable isotope of the element called deuterium, which consists of a proton and a neutron (rather than just a proton) in its nucleus.

Most of these so - called «pacemaking neurons» utilize charged sodium ions to create their electrical impulses.

Icarus Interstellar is supporting a study called Tin - Tin, which would also use an ion drive or similar tech to send a 20 - pound probe to Alpha Centauri.

This was achieved by means of ytterbium ions which were trapped in so - called «radio - frequency ion traps» in ultra-high vacuum and were cooled down to a few millikelvin with the aid of laser light.

Another biotech startup, called Z53 Therapeutics, in Cleveland, Ohio, is taking aim not at the cleft in mutated p53, but at mutations that knock out a key site for binding zinc ions in p53's core.

The revision, reported in July in the journal Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, employs a subprogram called a «kick model» to simulate the movement of fast ions caused by instabilities in the plasma.

In it, they describe a process by which nanodiamonds — tiny diamond particles 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a hair — curtail the electrochemical deposition, called plating, that can lead to hazardous short - circuiting of lithium ion batteries.

When the team bombarded the fossils with charged particles and then analyzed the particles that were knocked from the surface (a technique called time - of - flight secondary ion mass spectrometry), they chemically identified the remnants of eumelanin, a pigment that typically lends a black or brown color to skin or feathers.

Inside lithium - ion batteries, ions flow between positive and negative electrodes, where the ions are embedded and then released to travel back through a substance called an electrolyte to the other end.