Sentences with phrase «coating of aluminum oxide»

Swearer began by synthesizing 100 - nanometer - diameter aluminum crystals that, once exposed to air, develop a thin 2 - to 4 - nanometer - thick coating of aluminum oxide.

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A motorized pipette sucks in chemical vapors above what may be a grave and channels them to a hair - thin probe coated with an oxide of aluminum.

Using a technique common in the semiconductor industry called atomic layer deposition (ALD), they coated pieces of silver with layers of aluminum oxide only 1 atom thick.

To ensure that the coating spread evenly across the cloth, they treated the fabrics with thin layers of aluminum, titanium or zinc oxide.

«We are able to control the thickness of the aluminum oxide, creating a coating between two nanometers and 20 nanometers thick,» Zhang says.

That porous polymer then serves as a template, which the researchers coats with a thin layer of aluminum oxide using atomic layer deposition.

Labor intensive hand sanding with fine grit aluminum oxide paper between sprayed coats of paint creates an incredibly smooth surface.