Not exact matches
A triple - layer
coating of these materials — barely 200
nanometres thick — captures different wavelengths of light.
For their atoms, the team used polystyrene microspheres — either 540 or 850
nanometres across, more than 2000 times bigger than real atoms —
coated in a substance that binds to DNA.
The bonding properties of the saccharide
coating can now be switched using this method: if the researchers irradiate their system with light with a wavelength of 365
nanometres, considerably fewer pathogenic bacteria cells can adhere to the synthetic surface.
The team
coated a silicon wafer with a layer of upright nanotubes, spaced 100
nanometres apart through a process called chemical vapour deposition.
They
coated one side of a 4.5 - millimetre - diameter lens with a gold film 30
nanometre thick, and laid the lens — gold - side down — on a flat glass slide which was also
coated with film of gold.