They used laser light to melt copper and gold
into micrometre - sized droplets and deposited these in a controlled manner.
Not exact matches
Most of this plastic disintegrates
into particles smaller than five millimetres, referred to as microplastics, and breaks down further
into nanoparticles, which are less than 0.1
micrometre in size.
Next, the team diced up each brain
into 500,000 pieces each measuring 100
micrometres cubed.
Using a microscope with a laser attached, they precisely cut the brains
into slices 20
micrometres thick and stained them to identify the different brain structures.
The system passes the wet algae
into a settling tank, filters them, dehydrates them in a dryer and mills them
into fine particles less than 50
micrometres across.
Opening and closing a lid on the beaker generated pulses of CO2 that changed the growth rate and made the stems spread
into iris - like blossoms, each just 25
micrometres across.
The membranes start out with pores measuring 0.2 to 0.3
micrometres and are dipped
into a polymer.
«The light elements that makes up these «molecular tadpoles» are easily located by neutrons» says Dr Isabelle Grillo, at the ILL. «Moreover, small angle neutron scattering which we use at the ILL allows to characterise the self - assembled systems from the nanometre scale to tenth of
micrometres and is perfectly adapted to observe the coming together of the C60 footballs»
into these beautiful core structures.»
This means that what previously would have taken centimetres to achieve can now be realised on the
micrometre (one millionth of a metre) scale, bringing optical processing
into the range of electrical transistors, which currently power personal computers.
In 2010, physicists put the largest system yet
into a superposition: a 40 -
micrometre - long strip of piezoelectric material, which expands and contracts in response to voltage changes.
This light is then beamed
into a second crystal of KTP (potassium titanyl phosphate) which has a non-linear optical characteristic and generates a second harmonic of the input frequency at 0.5
micrometres.
To fit inside a cell, DNA performs an incredible contortionist feat, squeezing two metres of material
into a nucleus only a few
micrometres wide.
They split each cubic
micrometre into a 10 × 10 × 2 grid and focused the trap on each voxel in turn.