Sentences with phrase «into microscopic structures»

Scientists are learning to custom - design matter by assembling molecules into microscopic structures such as spheres, tubes, and lattices.

Not exact matches

A few microscopic techniques can focus light deep into the intact brains of dead animals to study its structure without damaging the axons, but much of this light is scattered away by the fatty lipid membranes that surround individual cells, making the technique less than perfect.

Michael Barnhardt, a senior research scientist at NASA ARC and principal investigator of the Entry Systems Modeling Project, said the X-ray work opens a new window into the structure and strength properties of materials at the microscopic scale, and expands the tools and processes NASA uses to «test drive» spacecraft materials before launch.

Microscopic picture of a fabricated silicon chip and two optical fibers above grating structures to couple the light into and out of the chip.

Once inside the lungs, the microscopic fungal spore transforms into a spherule (pictured), a podlike structure 10 to 20 times the size of the original spore (30 or 40 microns, or about half the width of a human hair).

While some engineers are dragging solar energy into the big time, others are getting small: They have hit upon a novel phenomenon that creates an electric current in nanotubes, hollow microscopic structures made of carbon atoms.

The bristle - like structure of the keratin in a toe pad helps it to stick — each pad is covered with microscopic pillars, which then branch out at the tips into even smaller structures.

Microfluidic devices are tiny chips that can sort out disease biomarkers, cells and other small structures in samples like blood by using microscopic channels incorporated into the devices.

Through the act of weaving the artist has transformed wire — an industrial material — into a cellular structure, something both microscopic and organic.