Sentences with phrase «electrical conductor»

Graphene — a single sheet of carbon atoms — is known to be a very good electrical conductor.

To do so, they created a special formation of electrical conductors of a certain length, which are coupled with a carbon nanotube.

Some ants act as electrical conductors, others as flying transport, and even some as killer ants.

Pure water with no exogenous ions in it is a very poor electrical conductor (and even, in fact, functions as an insulator), but because water is such an excellent solvent, it always has impurities in it and these impurities, even in «deionized» water in laboratories, are what creates the electrical conductivity.

«That makes it an excellent thermal and electrical conductor in all planes.»

Plus, E. coli can be turned into a microbial factory for almost anything that is presently manufactured but organic — from electrical conductors to fuel.

There might be an ocean of metallic fluid hydrogen swirling around that core, a gargantuan electrical conductor that generates Jupiter's far - reaching magnetic field.

Now a team, led by Robert W. Boyd, Professor of Optics and Physics at the University of Rochester and the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics at the University of Ottawa, has demonstrated that the transparent, electrical conductor indium tin oxide can result in up to 100 times greater nonlinearity than other known materials.

It is also an excellent electrical conductor through which electricity can flow with almost no loss.

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Polymers based on silicon - silicon or silicon - carbon triple bonds, he says, could possibly act as perfect electrical conductors, allowing the construction of extremely rapid digital circuits.

«Just as in regular electric generators, when moving magnetic fields cross long electrical conductors, electric currents will be generated.

Shielding makes it possible to insulate electrical conductors so they can be handled safely, even if they carry 220 lethal volts, and for the same reason, radios, which feed on electromagnetic radiation, fade in highway tunnels.

But using electrical conductors already in the environment would require much less of an energy and material investment than building a biological structure like a nanowire or molecule, and that is what microbes may do based on the new findings.

The clever arrangement of two electrical conductors around the carbon nanotube leads to an efficient signal transmission between the carbon nanotube and a much larger conductor for electromagnetic waves.

However, signal transmission between a carbon nanotube and a significantly larger electrical conductor remains problematic as large portions of the electrical signal are lost due to the reflection of part of the signal.

Smartboard of lessons: Lesson 1 - to explore materials Lesson 2 - investigate thermal conductors and insulators using experiment Lesson 3 - Evaluation of Results Lesson 4 - Investigate Electrical Conductors Lesson 5 - Investigate materials that dissolve

Conductors and insulators webquest and simulation Webquest covers Electrical conductors Conductive materials Super conductors Electrical insulator Semiconductor Radiation How heat causes molecules to move How some animals have and use insulation How to better insulate homes Complete an interactive game to create first an open circuit then test that circuit using everyday items to see if they are conductive or not.

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Carbon nanotubes are amazing because they're really good electrical conductors, yet they are only a few atoms in diameter.

In practice, however, these elements are not suitable electrode materials, as oxygen - based cathodes are inefficient, and sulfur and selenium electrodes are poor electrical conductors.

Bodies as currency, as communication, as electrical conductors.

This would act as a gargantuan electrical conductor and generate Jupiter's far - reaching magnetic field.

Now a team led by Robert W. Boyd, professor of optics and physics at the University of Rochester and the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics at the University of Ottawa, has demonstrated that the transparent, electrical conductor indium tin oxide can result in up to 100 times greater nonlinearity than other known materials.

The ABA graphene was an excellent electrical conductor, similar to monolayer grapheme.

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electrical conductor equipment.

Antennas are made of electrical conductors and, although they come in a wide variety of configurations, they often take the form of straight metal wires or wire coils.

In this case, the magnetic coercivity (defined as the resistance to a change in the direction of the magnetic fields for a ferromagnetic material) of the nickel reveals insights concerning the transition of the vanadium oxide from being an electrical conductor to becoming an insulator, called the metal - insulator transition (MIT).

Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt and Technische Universität Dresden have now made a pioneering discovery during their study of a phase transition from an electrical conductor to an insulator (Mott metal - insulator transition).

The sheets are good electrical conductors; they can also withstand more than 34,000 pounds per square inch of force without tearing and can endure temperatures as high as 840 degrees Fahrenheit without losing strength or conductivity.

The Earth's magnetic field is generated by the flow of liquid iron, an electrical conductor, in the Earth's outer core, between 3000 and 5000 kilometres beneath the surface.

It was Michael Faraday who discovered what happens when a magnetic field moves through an electrical conductor, or vice versa — though he certainly didn't have the ionized gas of an accretion disk in mind.

Salty ocean water is a good electrical conductor.

It was Michael Faraday who discovered what happenswhen a magnetic field moves through an electrical conductor, or viceversa — though he certainly didn't have the ionized gas of an accretiondisk in mind.

Well below the Jovian cloud tops is a layer of hydrogen under such incredible pressure it acts as an electrical conductor.

First, its compounds are good electrical conductors.

Rice University scientists have made wood into an electrical conductor by turning its surface into graphene.

To achieve this, they have developed a layout in which a nanocomponent is connected to two electrical conductors, which uncouple the electrical signal in a highly efficient manner.

They used an alloy of gallium, indium and tin, which is a good electrical conductor.

Sulfur is a poor electrical conductor and can become unstable over just several charge - and - recharge cycles.

The Hall effect occurs when a voltage difference is produced across an electrical conductor that runs through an electric current in the conductor, perpendicular to the magnetic field.

They tested individual nanotubes the same way one would test any electrical conductor: by touching them with two probes to see how much current passes through the material from one tip to the other.

When your finger — an electrical conductor — touches the screen, the change in the electrostatic field is used to calculate the location of the touch.

The nanotubes act as an electrical conductor, capturing the electrons from the plant material and sending them along a wire.