Sentences with phrase «cheaper than the materials»

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Startups working in nanotechnology manipulate materials at the molecular level to create products that are lighter, durable, cheaper or more functional than ever before.

All the frames are designed and manufactured in - house with quality materials, but RFLKT glasses are made with a premium Italian acetate that feels a little more substantial than the brand's cheaper frames.

Technology is making it cheaper and easier to create new materials inspired by nature, but better than anything currently known in nature.

Rutan eventually discovered a cheap way to hand - build exterior components out of «composite» materials — essentially strips of glue - soaked fiberglass over cut foam — that proved stronger and lighter than wood or aluminum and easier to craft into complex shapes.

Meanwhile, «transportation in the U.S. costs the equivalent of less than one yuan ($) per kilometer, while road tolls [in China] are higher,» he added, pointing out that some mid - and small - sized Chinese enterprises have already started moving to Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and Cambodia for cheaper wages and materials.

And because of the materials he had, including his rock saw that he uses for the trenching, he was able to provide a more efficient and much cheaper service than others for the customers, who are usually large - ranch owners investing a lot of money to save their trees.

Some will be cheaper than others, depending on the cost of build materials or processing power; some will be high - end monsters.

Pros: The horsehair inhabits a nice middle ground between boar and badger bristles, it's crafted in Spain of quality materials, the hair comes from living animals, a very attractive bristle and handle color, and it's cheaper than most badger brushes

The horsehair inhabits a nice middle ground between boar and badger bristles, it's crafted in Spain of quality materials, the hair comes from living animals, a very attractive bristle and handle color, and it's cheaper than most badger brushes

Since plastic is made from petroleum, rock - bottom oil prices mean that it's cheaper for producers to simply make new plastic than use recycled material.

We know that one of the ways of gaining approval and winning customers over is to retail our wide range of quality building materials a little bit cheaper than what is obtainable in the market and we are well prepared to survive on lower profit margin for a while.

They are continually beset by temptations which assailed the Messiah - to live by material things rather than by the Word of God, to seek the cheap success of the market place rather than the «well - done» of the heavenly king, to establish an empire by force and fear rather than to win the nations by sacrificial love.

Being a synthetic, it's much cheaper than cotton and other natural materials.

Either way, it is heaps more absorbent than Microfibre, which is the cheapest cloth diaper material.

The quality materials and construction don't come cheap, so this clothes drying rack costs considerably more than many other models.

Solid wood costs more, but will endure better than cheaper materials.

It doesn't take very long to make, and my materials only cost about $ 12, so it's way cheaper (and more personal) than store - bought changing pad combos.

To relieve some of the financial pressure landmarking puts on property owners, Comrie recently proposed two bills: One would require the Department of City Planning to consider the economic impact of designating a landmark, instead of focusing solely on a building's historic and aesthetic worth, while the other would allow owners of landmarked buildings to replace fixtures — like windows, roofing or siding — with newer, cheaper materials rather than the materials that were part of the building's original design.

Joy: But I would say, if you look 30 or 40 years out, if we assume things like really low - cost materials, low - embodying materials, they should be a lot cheaper than the way we've done things in the past.

It uses cheap materials and has a higher energy density than lithium - ion cells.

Solar companies have been searching for some time for materials that are more efficient, cheaper to produce and use fewer raw materials than silicon.

These materials, known as perovskites, are cheap and easy to make and have already achieved efficiencies in solar energy conversion of 15 %, better than many of their better established rivals.

A new filter material may be better at straining contaminants from water than the activated carbon in your faucet filter — and may be cheaper and easier to clean, to boot.

These opposing properties are combined to make a building material which is stronger than reinforced concrete and cheaper than steel alone.

The resulting «designer nanotubes,» she adds, promise to be far cheaper to produce on a large scale than those created with so - called DNA origami, another innovative technique for using DNA as a nanoscale construction material.

The materials are at least 20 to 40 percent cheaper than the dysprosium - containing magnets.

Additionally, a single muscle can be constructed within ten minutes using materials that cost less than $ 1, making them cheap and easy to test and iterate.

If we can create an abundance of cheap carbon nanotube - impregnated composite materials — currently quite expensive — automobile frames could become lighter than aluminum, stronger than steel, and easier to mold into compound curves.

By combining nanotechnology with cheap materials such as cotton and tea bags, however, researchers have recently developed mobile water filters that can be manufactured for less than a penny.

Scientists, cleaning their lab, discover a cheap sponge removes the substance better than many other materials

Their findings have been recently published in EPJ D and are particularly relevant for the development of novel applications in medicine, health care and materials processing because they involve air at normal atmospheric pressure, which would make it cheaper than applications in inert gases or nitrogen.

The advance boosts the chance that this material, which is a lot cheaper than its silicon counterparts, will hit the mainstream market.

Rather than penny - pinching to preserve pounds, crowns and shillings, Bucklow believes that Henry III deliberately chose cheap materials and fake gemstones to accentuate one of the key themes of the altarpiece — miraculous transformations.

While there is a growing market for organic solar cells ¬ ¬ - they contain materials that are cheaper, more abundant, and more environmentally friendly than those used in typical solar panels — they also tend to be less efficient in converting sunlight to electricity than conventional solar cells.

For instance, autonomous vehicles could eventually prevent tens of thousands of road deaths; optogenetics — using genetic engineering and light to manipulate brain cell activity — could help cure or manage debilitating neurological diseases; and materials like graphene could ensure more people than ever have access to cheap clean water.

Solar cells that are cheaper and easier to manufacture could challenge the dominance of silicon, with new research showing an alternative material called perovskite is more efficient and adaptable than previously thought.

While there is a growing market for organic solar cells --- they contain materials that are cheaper, more abundant, and more environmentally friendly than those used in typical solar panels — they also tend to be less efficient in converting sunlight to electricity than conventional solar cells.

Although this version of an LMP battery charges slower than other cathode materials, Choi said the real advantage to this work is that the easy, one - step method will let them explore a wide variety of cheap materials that have traditionally been difficult to work with in developing lithium ion rechargeable batteries.

And graphene, made of pure and abundant carbon, could be a much cheaper detector material than presently used semiconductors that often include rare, expensive elements.

It's a much more thermally robust material than the cheaper stuff that most baking dishes are made of, which is important to me because I often use these dishes to warm up food in the oven.

The material is different, which makes these bags cheaper than leathers.

Obviously, felt is a material that is cheaper than leather, but it's a different experience.

However, although it was considerably cheaper to make Daraprim than to buy it in the US Binns says schools still need to factor in the cost of things like stirrers, glassware and the chemical materials.

First, the basic question about software's general effectiveness has long been answered: as a whole, it works no better than cheaper traditional materials.

It could be cheaper for us to buy every couple with a new baby a set of these materials than it is to pay for programs like those required by the No Child Left Behind Act.

Cheap materials have been all but vanquished and the technology has been more than brought up to date.

The appearance is terrific, but the switchgear and the materials seem cheaper than the old car's: the climate - control buttons, for instance, are no - where near as good as a VW Jetta «s.

«Cheaper materials than previous models seem to have been used,» he says, «so the interior can start to look a little worn after a while — sooner than you'd think for a BMW and perhaps not reflecting the true mileage of the car.»

As against these other cars, the 12C's central tub is significant for being a one - piece pressing that is considerably cheaper to manufacture, in terms of both time and material and, at 165 pounds, is even lighter than anything that has come before.

I felt the dash should have had more luxurious materials that would have accentuated a style of Class, and something other than the aluminum trim around the console as it makes the car look cheap.