Sentences with phrase «from oil droplets»

Protocells made from oil droplets in water allow soluble chemicals to be exchanged between the drops and their surrounding solution.

No magic ingredients needed, and we can go freely from oil droplets in water and vice versa.

He then blasted it with strobe - lit «smoke» created from oil droplets and filmed it as it flapped for its life.

Not exact matches

What's left are more like ponds, or puddles, or even droplets clustered in solid rock, and the capital cost and time frame to extract oil from them have soared.

Confocal microscopy allows for the visualization of the movement of oil droplets away from a freezing interface.

Rafts made from dust - like particles have carried water droplets across a sea of oil, without the water dribbling out.

Scientists are keeping a close watch on variables that might affect life in the open ocean, including depleted oxygen levels caused by a feeding frenzy from oil - and gas - eating microbes, and the unknown effects of dispersants, which break the oil into droplets but may keep it suspended in the water.

And, unfortunately, the microbes» speed is limited not by the availability of oil — or even its droplet size, which is why chemical dispersants have been used to break up the oil into microbe - friendly globules — but by the availability of various nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus that wash into the ocean via rivers carrying sediments from the continents.

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Tiny, self - propelled microsubmarines could pick up and tote droplets of oil away from contaminated waters, according to a new study.

Current cleanup technologies — such as mechanical skimmers or membrane filters, which are maneuvered with boats and oil tankers — mainly remove oil from the surface but miss those denser droplets, Azwell says.

Sprayed from planes or boats, dispersants reduce the surface tension at the oil - water interface, allowing waves to break the slick into tiny droplets.

«They line up at the oil - water interface and create a barrier that prevents the water droplets from banging together, coalescing, and settling out of the oil.»

FUS proteins can change back and forth from small liquid droplets (resembling oil droplets in water) to small gels (like jelly) inside nerve cells.

Scientists have discovered a completely new type of opal formed by a common seaweed which harnesses natural technology by self - assembling a nanostructure of oil droplets to control how light reflects from its cells to display a shimmering array of colors...

The motors developed by researchers of the ICN2 Bioelectronics and Biosensors Group, led by ICREA Prof. Arben Merkoçi, have been used in test conditions to remove oil droplets from water.

In the new study, she and her colleagues have now shown that FUS aggregation results from a liquid - liquid phase separation analogous to the gradual coalescence of oil droplets dispersed in an oil - water emulsion.

Asprey says he uses a patented process to take purified water and mix in tiny droplets of «Bulletproof XCT Oil»: medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) derived from coconut oOil»: medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) derived from coconut oiloil.

Water, oil, and lava droplets fall from â $ œdroppersâ $ and will bounce around the walls of a puzzle.

We have been seeing droplets of what could be oil or dispersant (or both) in crab larvae, from Pensacola, Fla., all the way down into Galveston, Tex..