Sentences with phrase «cell materials requires»

But in standard solar cell materials this requires that incoming photons have at least 5 electron volts worth of energy, which corresponds to photons of deep ultraviolet light (UV).

Making the best solar cell materials requires similarly expensive setups.

Not exact matches

This type of solar cell is lightweight and affordable, but requires very careful processing so the materials used mix and crystallize properly into thin films.

Defined as the harnessing of living processes to achieve healing and repair of damaged and diseased tissues by Tim Hardingham, director of the UK Centre for Tissue Engineering, it is a field that requires collaborative research involving cell and molecular biologists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and surgeons.

The finding could help engineers and materials scientists produce solar cells and other opto - electronics without the help of the high temperatures required to shape glass today — making this ancient arrangement a boon for modern technology.

These cloning experiments (known as somatic cell nuclear transfer), in addition to being unambiguously nonpresidential, require a rare and precious starting material: healthy human egg cells.

By doubling the power density of the fuel cell stack, GM engineers halved its size as well as halved the amount of expensive materials, such as platinum catalysts, that such fuel cells require.

C1q also plays a positive role in the brain by clearing out dead cells and helping target harmful materials, so learning how to manipulate its presence to prevent debilitating synapse loss while maintaining its normal functions will require further research.

«It is a much more comprehensive analysis than was achievable before and the technique requires a very minimal amount of sample material — just one cell.»

Several of the material's properties are already ideal for solar cells: The material's band gap — the amount of energy required for a light particle to knock an electron loose — is ideal for solar cells.

Many of the artificial methods of making hydrogen and oxygen from water require materials that are too expensive, require too much energy or break down too quickly in real - world conditions, like the acidic electrolytes in fuel cells.

Microtubules (roads made of proteins) extend throughout a cell for motor proteins (carriers) to deliver neuronal cargo packed with many kinds of materials required for life activity.

Although the court ruled that human genetic material is not patentable — there is «no doubt that naturally occurring DNA and RNA as they exist inside the cells of the human body can not be the subject of a valid patent,» Nicholas wrote in his opinion — it concluded that the process of isolating the BRCA1 gene from the human body required human intervention.

A truly multidisciplinary subject, tissue engineering requires the skills of chemists and materials engineers to design and build organ scaffolds, physicists and mathematicians to model tissue growth, and biologists to monitor and control cell growth.

Other responsibilities include general lab management duties, scheduling and planning assistance, budget monitoring and purchase orders approval, providing technical assistance to students and other laboratory personnel, obtaining approvals required for environmental safety, animal use, and stem cell use (e.g., laboratory clearance, IACUC, IRB, SCRO, and BUA), and assisting in the assembly of materials for grant and fellowship applications.

Fusion of biological membranes is an essential process required for basic functions like transport of material within the cell, maintenance of cellular homeostasis and communication between cells.

Led by Yuehe Lin, professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, the researchers used inexpensive metal to make a super low density material, called an aerogel, to reduce the amount of precious metals required for fuel cell reactions.

Asterias» platform technology is grounded in the intellectual property, materials, and scientific know - how required to develop therapies for degenerative diseases based on pluripotent stem cells.

Viruses are entities that require bacteria or other cells in order to make copies of their genetic material and to construct new casings that house the genetic material.

This requires genetic material taken from these cells to be «re-set» so that the complete instructions contained in the DNA to be acted upon.

Their method, published ahead of print in the Oct. 17, 2008 online edition of Nature Biotechnology, not only provides a practical and simple alternative for the generation of patient - and disease - specific stem cells, which had been hampered by the low efficiency of the reprogramming process, but also spares patients invasive procedures to collect suitable starting material, since the process only requires a single human hair.

Nutrition, nourishment, or aliment, is the supply of materials - food - required by organisms and cells to stay alive.

There's an unrealistic expectation that Android tablets should be cheaper than cell phones, despite obviously requiring more materials to produce.

This requires that you constantly have a steady stream of materials of different types to craft what are called Warp Cells.

The high purity silicon that is required for traditional solar cells is expensive both in terms of processing and materials.

Another potential advantage of these biohybrid cells is that they can be made from cheap and readily available materials, unlike many microelectronic devices that require rare and expensive materials like platinum or indium.