Sentences with phrase «cylindrical structures»

These modified thylakoids are then immobilized on a specially designed backing of carbon nanotubes, cylindrical structures that are nearly 50,000 times finer than a human hair.

Unlike wires, however, the axons are fluid - filled cylindrical structures that not only transmit electrical signals but also ferry nutrients and other essential substances to and from the cell body.

McEuen was already a leading authority on carbon nanotubes, naturally occurring cylindrical structures smaller than a billionth of a meter in diameter, when he was lured to Ithaca, N.Y., in 2001 to direct Cornell University's Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics.

Similar compounds containing peptides made up of fewer amino acids tend to form cylindrical structures, with all the long chains pointing inwards and the peptides pointing outwards.

Microtubules are tiny cylindrical structures that organize themselves to form a spindle.

They calculated that this could be done by a cylindrical structure consisting of a central core surrounded by a shell of concentric rings.

TWO YEARS FROM NOW, in 2017, Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford (above) plans to take full advantage of the unique cylindrical structure of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C..

EXHIBITION Mark Bradford @ Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (November 2017): Los Angeles - based artist Mark Bradford will take full advantage of the unique cylindrical structure of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., installing a suite of site - specific paintings on the second floor of the Smithsonian museum where the work will occupy the entire circumference of the curved galleries.

Referencing the genre of panoramic painting, Prouvost created a cylindrical structure interspersed with collages and monitors.

Further advantages are that the cylindrical structure with the vertical»S» blades occupies less space than the average turbine, the structure is robust, and practically as well as aesthetically it can integrate easily into the urban environment.

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Using a technology called VAST, which can automatically label individual neurons, glia, and blood vessels different colors, as well as smaller structures such as dendrites and mitochondria, the researchers analyzed the contents of three cylindrical chunks of brain tissue, each no bigger than grains of salt.

The chamber is formed in the top half of a submerged cylindrical tank mounted in a cement and metal structure on the seafloor (see Diagram).

To extend the performance of the protective structure, the group proposes adding a number of smaller cylindrical cavities measuring 2m in diameter.

Then in 1991, while studying the unique atomic structures called buckyballs, which are created by electrically charging carbon soot, Sumio Iijima of Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan, discovered the first nanotubes — fantastically strong cylindrical carbon - atom constructions less than two nanometers wide and of varying lengths.

Whereas buckyballs are spherical in shape, a nanotube is cylindrical, with at least one end typically capped with a hemisphere of the buckyball structure.

Each neuron contains hundreds of long, cylindrical protein structures, called microtubules, that serve as scaffolding.

The cylindrical chamber has grips that serve like a vice to exert pressure on meteorite samples, and X-ray imaging can study how this compression, in combination with heat and pressure, affects their microscopic structure.

The towering geometric structures, each a unique assemblage of semi-circles, arches, and cylindrical forms, invite passersby of all ages to venture inside and explore.

Corps Stranger 1994 Video installation with cylindrical wooden structure, video projector, amplifier, four speakers 350 x 300 x 300 cm Collection: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

The Pelamis is a semi-submerged, articulated structure composed of cylindrical sections linked by hinged joints.

It is a brace tube structure, «a structural system that forms a cylindrical shell (brace tube) with columns / beams and braces.

It's composed by a metal structure that keeps it afloat, a flat and cylindrical net that sink so that air doesn't go through them, and a flow meter to measure the cubic meters that go through it.