Sentences with phrase «is a glass cell»

The heart of the system to generate groups of photons is a glass cell filled with hot gas vapour.

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You trade grins with your friend, who's actually 1,700 miles away, unplug your mind - reading headset and virtual reality glasses from your cell phone, and make your way up to your office.

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The solar cell is embedded in a glass tile, which is then installed like a traditional shingle or tile on the roof.

Audi will be pairing with Altra Devices, a Chinese photovoltaic cell developer, to produce solar energy - capturing glass roofs for the luxury car brand...

But from above, the glass covering the tiles is transparent, allowing the sun to reach the solar cell underneath.

To the contrary, it is more fantastic than we can imagine — hundreds of billions (trillions) of galaxies with hundreds of billions (trillions) of stars, nearly all of which have planets, some right for life; planets so hot that they rain glass; stars made of diamonds; the lineage of animals from singled celled organisms to the incredible variety that exists today with their unique adaptations.

Plastic containers are the best choice for storing breastmilk in the refrigerator as more of human milk's leukocytes or white cells adhere to glass.

Researchers at Tufts Medical School noticed that cancer cells being grown in the lab multiplied more quickly in polyester test tubes than in glass.

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These «organs on a chip,» as they are called, are typically glass slides coated with human cells that have been configured to mimic a particular tissue or interface between tissues.

The effectiveness of the coating is demonstrated in Picture 1 where a glass cover sheet has been placed above a crystalline silicon PV cell.

The area covered by the AR coated glass is clearly visible whereas the part of the cell covered with non-coated glass is obscured by reflections.

John Glass, a senior microbiologist in the synthetic biology group at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, puts it this way: If you can imagine a set of genes that will program a cell to do something — anything — then you can make them «at a reasonable cost and test your hypothesis... so it will be possible to attempt to design organisms that have extraordinary properties to solve human needs.»

Above all, synthetic biology «requires a new way of thinking about biology: the idea that cells are machines and they can be rebuilt the way that electrical engineers now design circuits [and] instruments,» Glass says.

Previously, high - resolution live imaging has been done with cells cultured on glass slides, which flattens samples.

Live cells are highly sensitive to their surroundings, so the new microscopy strategy — which replaces glass slides with blocks of collagen — could help reveal more natural behaviors.

A team at Emory University is embedding electrodes in glass cones filled with nerve - growth factors that encourage brain cells to sprout more dendrites and axons.

To construct the solar cell, the semiconductor molecules are deposited as thin films on glass with the same production methods used by organic light - emitting diode manufacturers.

Until recently, the Empa CIGS cells were the most efficient in the world; at the end of October, though, a German research team at the Zentrum für Sonnenenergie - und Wasserstoff - Forschung (ZSW) in Stuttgart presented CIGS cells with an efficiency of 20.8 %, although they use far higher processing temperatures and (rigid) glass as the substrate.

Solyndra is now churning out copper - indium - gallium - selenide (CIGS) thin - film solar cells, wrapped into a cylindrical shape and encased in glass.

There has been talk of optogenetics for the blind, implanting opsins in vision cells and developing special glasses that shine light into them.

So instead of going through a phase change from liquid to solid, glass formation occurs, which allows cells to be preserved in their existing state without going through the complete dehydration that you achieve in slow cooling.

«Because many broadly expressed genes that play key roles in essential cellular functions are under the control of cell - specific enhancers, the ability to affect enhancer function by knocking down eRNAs could potentially provide a new strategy for altering gene expression in vivo in a cell - specific manner,» said Glass, noting that in his research, anti-sense oligonucleotides were developed in conjunction with Isis Pharmaceuticals, which suppressed enhancer activity and reduced expression in nearby genes.

Scientists are exploring ways to develop transparent or semi-transparent solar cells as a substitute for glass walls in modern buildings with the aim of harnessing solar energy.

Administering a dose of resveratrol equivalent to the amount in a glass of red wine also nearly tripled the survival rate of human cells that were exposed to radiation.

«We are envisioning solar cell layers on glass facades, which let part of the light into the building while at the same time creating electricity,» says Thomas Mueller.

According to Colsmann, another field of application is the integration of solar cells into buildings: Since the glass facades of high - rise buildings must often be shaded, it is an obvious option to use organic solar modules for transforming the absorbed light into electric power.

Technology maturing The world is seeing rapid advances in 3 - D printers, which manufacture items from blueprints using a growing variety of ingredients — plastic, ceramic, glass, metal and even more unusual ingredients like sugar, mashed potatoes, chocolate and living cells.

Previous to this research, plant genes were studied by cutting up plants, killing the cells and fixing them to glass slides.

Titled «Silicon Derived from Glass Bottles as Anode Materials for Lithium Ion Full Cell Batteries,» an article describing the research was published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.

Any light that passes through the glass is picked up by another solar cell.

The idea is that the film, when applied to different surfaces such as glass or brick, can produce solar energy more efficiently than conventional silicon wafer — based solar cells — which are made of materials similar to those used to fabricate computer chips.

Until now, thin - film solar cells have been made in vacuum chambers — the semiconductor materials are placed on the glass or metal and then air is pumped out of the chamber, creating pressure that fuses the materials.

Printing perovskite solar cells on glass is also an area of interest for Oxford Photovoltaics, Snaith says.

But until recently their theories were based on observations of the behaviour of cells on inorganic surfaces such as glass or plastic.

Three years later Wieman's team went on to show that this technique could be used to trap atoms in a glass cell, using inexpensive diode lasers.

One way IBM is hoping to cut costs is by making its cells through a process that dissolves the semiconductor materials in a solvent to create a solution that is placed on a glass or metal sheet and heated until the materials adhere.

Although it was protected with a layer of glass, the 3 - D perovskite solar cell lost performance rapidly, within a few days, while the 2 - D perovskite withered only slightly.

The trick to getting the size down, says project leader John Kitching of NIST, was combining numerous microfabrication tricks, including a novel method for trapping cesium atoms in tiny glass cells, a technique developed by his collaborators, Svenja Knappe and Li - Anne Liew, also at NIST.

In the experiment, the beads are contained in a water - filled glass cell.

The fact that the glass is highly hazy and exhibits high transmittance could also make it useful for LEDs, which work in a way that is essentially the opposite of a solar cell, by using electricity that enters a semiconductor to produce light that is then emitted from the device.

These structures also scatter the light that enters the glass, helping more of the light reach the semiconductor material within the solar cell, where it is converted into power.

This is the first time that glass has been made with such high levels of haze and light transmittance at the same time, a combination of properties that could help boost the performance of solar cells and LEDs.

«A lot of people are interested in metallic glasses because of their strength and their potential use to make better cell phones cases, computer housings and other products,» said Michael L. Falk, who supervised the research.

The complete list is: the Food Research Center; the Center for Research, Teaching, and Innovation in Glass; the Center for Research and Development of Functional Materials; the Brazilian Research Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology; the Center for Research on Inflammatory Diseases; the Center for Research and Innovation in Biodiversity and Drug Discovery; the Center for Research on Toxins, Immune Response, and Cell Signaling; the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics; the Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry; the Obesity and Co-Morbidities Research Center; the Center for Cell - Based Therapy; the Center for Metropolitan Studies; the Human Genome and Stem - Cell Research Center; the Center for Computational Science and Engineering; the Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine; the Center for the Study of Violence; and the Optics and Photonics Research Center.

In their study, scientists around Prof. Olivier Pertz from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel gained novel insights into the regulation of directional cell migration: Using a special procedure, 20 micrometer wide lines were fabricated on glass thereby mimicking the connective tissue environment — creating a highway for cells.

«Although the technology used to analyze the cells is relatively simple and inexpensive — just glass and plastic — trials will be difficult to design,» says Heath.

Last year, researchers at Rice University developed a similar treatment that uses a near - infrared laser to heat nanoshells — microscopic glass beads coated in gold that are too large to be absorbed by healthy cells but small enough to sneak inside tumors through their blood vessels.

Aside from its opaque eyes and the polka dot - like chromatophores (pigmented cells that aid in camouflage) that cover its body, the glass squid is completely transparent.