Sentences with phrase «known as an electrode»

The lithium ion begins its journey attached to a metal cylinder or sheet, known as an electrode.

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In devices known as capacitors, energy is physically stored in an electric field between metal electrodes.

Having the electrode in the form of tiny suspended particles instead of consolidated slabs greatly reduces the path length for charged particles as they move through the material — a property known as «tortuosity.»

Most anesthesiologists monitor their patients using a machine known as a bispectral index monitor, which reads brain waves from electrodes on a patient's scalp and produces a score from 100 to 0.

Through a chemical process known as reduction / oxidation, one electrode steals electrons from glucose, the natural sugar in the blood, and becomes an anode, which releases electrons.

«Until now, the only way to achieve this was a risky surgical procedure known as deep brain stimulation, in which electrodes are implanted directly inside the thalamus,» he said.

A result is that a property known as the capacitance decreases, which in turn raises the voltage between the two electrodes.

During this split second of surprise, electrodes in the cap register a cascade of electrical impulses known as a P - 300 response.

But for all their perceived advantages, magnesium batteries have proven too good to be true since they were first proposed in the 1990s and essentially sidelined by a variety of problems; primarily, the lack of a suitable cathode, or positive electrode — otherwise known as the part of a battery where the magnesium ions enter during discharge of the battery to power an electronic device and then exit during charging.

The artificial synaptic TFT consisted of indium zinc oxide (IZO), as both a channel and a gate electrode, separated by a 550 - nanometre - thick film of nanogranular silicon dioxide electrolyte, which was fabricated using a process known as chemical vapour deposition.

Having outfitted the twelve participants with electrode caps, the researchers used a measure of the brain's electrical activity known as event - related brain potentials (ERPs) to monitor their physiological responses to different outcomes.

Strontium cobaltites are just one example of a class of materials known as transition metal oxides, which is considered promising for a variety of applications including electrodes in fuel cells, membranes that allow oxygen to pass through for gas separation, and electronic devices such as memristors — a form of nonvolatile, ultrafast, and energy - efficient memory device.

They also changed the electrode setup and added another layer of flexible electronic devices, known as ring oscillators, which convert the electrical signals emerging from the touch sensitive pyramids to a stream of digital electrical pulses.

These electrode surfaces are coated with what are known as Faradaic materials, which can undergo reactions to become positively or negatively charged.

The UMass Amherst teams knew from previous studies that Geobacter grow electrically conductive filaments known as microbial nanowires, which can transport electrons outside the cell to make electrical connections with minerals, electrodes or other cells.

Other methods of interfacing with the brain via electrodes include those put on the scalp for electroencephalography (EEG) and ones placed under the skull on the brain's surface, known as electrocorticography (ECoG).

Darrel made the decision to have electrodes surgically implanted over his spinal cord in 2016 to test out a treatment known as epidural stimulation in the hopes of improving some of the side effects.

Mehdi was chosen for her research into the protective and eventually smothering layer, known as the solid - electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer, that forms around a lithium - ion battery's electrode.