Sentences with phrase «for nanometre»

Since 2009 however Eliasson has been conducting a series of Colour Experiment Paintings with the intention of reproducing in paint, the exact colours for each nanometre of the visible light spectrum.

Not exact matches

The research is important to the engineering sector for some potential applications of nanotechnology, for example in catalysis and aerospace, where particles of only nanometre dimensions are subjected to very high temperatures.

A map of the Americas measuring just a few hundred nanometres across has been created out of meticulously folded strands of DNA, using a new technique for manipulating molecules dubbed «DNA origami».

For now, such technology can cloak only objects with a surface area of a few square micrometres and a few hundred nanometres deep.

By creating nanometre - thick arrays of metal - organic frameworks, Zhao's team was able to expose the pores and increase the surface area for electrical contact with the water.

But he points out that an increase in 1 nanometre particles does not necessarily translate into the 50 nanometre CCNs needed for cloud formation.

In the second phase, he analysed methodologies for inserting and dispersing nanoparticles of a specific size (of between 3 and 4 nanometres) throughout the polymer.

The X-ray microscope specifically developed for this purpose, permits details of the sample down to 500 millionths of a millimetre (500 nanometres) to be resolved.

For small structures in particular (from 100 nanometres to 10 micrometres) no good solutions for this problem existed yFor small structures in particular (from 100 nanometres to 10 micrometres) no good solutions for this problem existed yfor this problem existed yet.

Metamaterials extend this concept with artificial structures that might be nanometres across for visible light, or as large as a few millimetres for microwave radiation.

At present, lenses and mirrors can not focus light into a beam much smaller than the light's wavelength — 500 nanometres for blue - green lasers.

For the experiment, the team built a tiny battery with a lithium - cobalt anode and a cathode made from tin oxide nanowires just 200 nanometres wide.

X-rays have very short wavelengths of only about 1 to 0.01 nanometres (nm), compared to 400 to 800 nm for visible light.

Using highly miniaturised segmented - style Fresnel lenses — the same design used in lighthouses for more than a century — which enable exceptionally high - quality images of a single atom, the scientists have been able to detect position displacements with nanometre precision in three dimensions.

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.

Silicon quantum systems allow little room for electronics because qubits have to be so close to each other to communicate — about 10 or 20 nanometres apart.

For their study, the Bern research groups used a new microscope, which allowed them to look into trypanosomes and their mitochondria with a resolution of less than 50 nanometres.

Nanometre - scale gold particles are intensively investigated for applications as catalysts, sensors, drug delivery devices and biological contrast agents and as components in photonics and molecular electronics.

The 3D NanoChemiscope, which was developed at Empa, not only maps samples with nanometre precision, but for the first time can also provide precise information about which chemical elements are arranged where in a sample.

Furthermore, the microscope will be capable of performing live - cell super-resolution imaging through structured illumination microscopy (SIM) and Super-Resolution Radial Fluctuations (SRRF); for fixed cells resolutions on the scale of tens of nanometres will be achievable using single molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) techniques.

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Some of the potential applications of nanotechnology, for example in catalysis and aerospace, may subject particles of only nanometre dimensions to very high temperatures.

We aim to push its limits on all fronts to establish a technique which combines nanometre 3D resolution with maximum labelling efficiencies, absolute measurements of protein copy numbers, precise multi-colour measurements, high - throughput for large scale statistics and novel data analysis approaches, to address the vast array of exciting biological questions at the nanoscale, which are becoming accessible only now.

Aerosols A suspension of airborne solid or liquid particles, with a typical size between a few nanometres and 10 μm that reside in the atmosphere for at least several hours.

For comparison I've seen the Knudsen layer described as «several mean free paths thick» which in the atmosphere is about 70 nanometres and would be much less in water.

They explained these results by noting that at high nucleation rates, more nanometre - sized particles are competing for condensable gases to grow to CCN sizes.

A suspension of airborne solid or liquid particles, with a typical size between a few nanometres and 10 μm that reside in the atmosphere for at least several hours.