Sentences with phrase «foglike microdroplets»

In addition, the material is capable of «microdroplet manipulation,» or the transfer of miniature volumes of liquid.

Xiangjia Li, a PhD student on Chen's team and co-first author of the study, says one example of high - performance microdroplet manipulation could lead to more efficient blood analyses for patients.

«Salvinia effect» also has potential for liquid - handling technology that executes «microdroplet manipulation» — a breakthrough where the adhesion of liquid to a robotic arm can be tuned accordingly and result in non-loss transfer for very tiny amounts of liquid.

A robotic gripper could move to different stations and dispense microdroplets of blood that are then evenly mixed with different chemicals for various tests.

The key ingredient in «thubber» is a suspension of non-toxic, liquid metal microdroplets.

Another negative mechanism: Microdroplets of oil dispersed in the water might set off a feeding frenzy of microbes able to dine on the hydrocarbons, further reducing oxygen levels.

Whereas fog is made of ready - made microdroplets floating in the air, dew appears following the cooling of a substrate below air temperature.

It's still unclear why water microdroplets are able to replace a reducing agent in this reaction.

The surprise finding means that pure water microdroplets can serve as microreactors for the production of gold nanostructures.

But if you turn the water in that beaker into microdroplets, you will get about 3,000 square meters of surface area — about the size of half a football field,» Zare said.

However, the most striking observation came while running a control experiment in which they replaced the reducing agent — which ordinarily releases the gold particles — with microdroplets of water.

Indeed, the team observed that gold nanoparticle grew over 100,000 times faster in microdroplets.

From previous experiments, the scientists knew that some chemical reactions proceed much faster in microdroplets than in larger solution volumes.

Both structures were formed using a novel redox reaction involving water microdroplets.

That caused «microdroplets» to form in its wake, just as condensation forms (Physical Review Letters, doi.org/cdk8).

The WSU research team used a 3 - D printing method to create foglike microdroplets that contain nanoparticles of silver and to deposit them at specific locations.

But if you turn the water in that beaker into microdroplets, you will get about 3,000 square meters of surface area - about the size of half a football field,» Zare said.

However, the most striking observation came while running a control experiment in which they replaced the reducing agent - which ordinarily releases the gold particles - with microdroplets of water.

We work across disciplines and use a variety of techniques including microfluidics, standard microscopies (electron, optical, fluorescence, confocal), spectroscopies (fluorescence, UV, CD), scattering techniques (X-ray, light), protein expression and characterization and cell - free gene expression to investigate the utility of coacervate microdroplets as robust reaction compartments and cellular mimics.

Previous work has given insights into the mechanistic pathways leading to small molecule sequestration in membrane - free coacervate protocells; successfully demonstrated the use of liquid - liquid phase separated micro compartments for protein expression using cell free expression systems; exploited microfluidics for the high throughput formation of stable, monodisperse microdroplets; and integrated two contrasting modes of protocell construction to produce a novel hybrid model based on fatty acid membrane - bound coacervate micro-droplets.