Sentences with phrase «less than the diameter of a human hair»

Despite measuring 10,000 times less than the diameter of a human hair, the new muscles can lift more than 100,000 times their own weight, which amounts to approximately 85 times the power of a natural muscle of equivalent size.

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The team's novel fabrication technique involves patterning a solar absorber with tiny holes with diameters less than 400 nanometers (that's roughly 200 times smaller than the width of a human hair), cut into the absorber at regular intervals.

A nanometer is less than 1/1, 000 the size of a red blood cell and about 1/20, 000 the diameter of a human hair.

The discovery follows years of groundbreaking work by Arnold, who in 1995 discovered that an optical fiber could excite what he termed Whispering Gallery Mode (WGM) in polymer micro-beads less than one - third the diameter of a human hair.

The cylinders contain sheets of plastic membranes wrapped around a central pipe, and the membranes are stippled with pores less than a hundredth the diameter of a human hair.

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new device that measures the motion of super-tiny particles traversing distances almost unimaginably small — shorter than the diameter of a hydrogen atom, or less than one - millionth the width of a human hair.

This type of pollution refers to particles found in the air that are less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, or 1 / 30th the average width of a human hair.

This produces nanowire filaments that are a thousand times thinner than the diameter of a human hair, typically about 300 nanometres or less.