Sentences with phrase «macro-and microscale»

The microfluidic technology, developed in the lab of professor Mark Hayes in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State University, uses microscale electric field gradients, acting on extremely small samples, to tell the difference between the two strains (antibiotic - resistant and antibiotic - susceptible) of Staphylococcus epidermidis.

In November 2010 Japanese researchers announced online in Analytical Chemistry that they had built a chip that simultaneously tests how liver, intestine and breast cancer cells respond to cancer drugs, and in February 2010 scientists publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA developed a microscale replica of the human liver that allowed them to observe the entire life cycle of hepatitis C, a virus that is difficult to observe in cultured cells.

The researchers — from Seoul National University, Act Company and Minuta Technology — used an array of microscale prisms placed on a screen to create a filter that guides the light in one direction or another.

Coupling multiscale modeling with emerging microscale 3D - printing techniques, the team enabled a pathway to directly fabricate and test synthetic web structures by design.

It became commonplace to include a combination of mesoscale and microscale models into the European Wind Atlas.

Chinese researchers have now developed microscale optical waveguides.

The combined data covered the reactions on the nano -, meso -, and microscales.

Now, things have changed with the new micro-rod Ln - MOFs, which have potential as microscale waveguides.

Although such measurements have been performed in much larger scale systems, the latest results were achieved within a micrometer - sized waveguide — a thin wire that guides light — and demonstrated the use of optical torque to induce rotational motion in a microscale mechanical device.

«Tiny glow sticks: Microrods made of lanthanoid organic frameworks act as microscale optical waveguides.»

Well - defined, microscale Ln - MOFs have remained a rarity, however.

«Each small eye, composed of a microlens and a microscale photodetector, is a separate imaging system, but when they are all taken together, the camera can take a clear picture, with just one snap, of nearly 180 degrees.

Then they line up the specimen with the microscale's tick marks and record the data.

The gels can also be imprinted with patterns such as the microscale architecture found on the surface of lotus leaves, which allows them to repel water.

Microfabricated silicon needle - electrode devices were expected to be an innovation that would be able to record and analyze the electrical activities of the microscale neuronal circuits in the brain.

Meet the microscale: essentially, a teeny - tiny ruler that's a must - have for entomologists — researchers who investigate insects.

This approach enables swift and sensitive detection of this critical biomolecule at microscale concentration levels.

Instead of building a model describing the microscale movement of individuals and confronting it with experimental data, the authors built a model of swarm behaviour that is consistent with experimental observations, in terms of swarm density, of individual midges» speed and acceleration.

The product's developers, engineers and scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, Tsinghua University in China, and Case Western Reserve University in the United States, believe the storage capacity by volume (called volumetric energy density) is the highest reported for carbon - based microscale supercapacitors to date: 6.3 microwatt hours per cubic millimeter.

The blood vessels being reported Feb. 18 in Nature Scientific Reports are also miniaturized to enable 3D microscale artificial organ platforms to test drugs for efficacy and side effects.

The nanoparticles then assembled into sheets (10 − 100 nm) and the sheets into aggregates on the microscale (1 − 10 μm) when the polymer was crystallized.

«Before this collaboration, we didn't understand what was happening at the microscale.

The vision of the centre is to become a world - leading facility for the characterisation and analysis of molecular materials at the nano and microscale.

It also has the ability to measure minuscule features and inconsistencies of surfaces with microscale resolution.

Rather, certain areas — locations where there were likely microscale cracks and other surface defects — would experience intense local corrosion resulting in the sudden appearance of pits.

«WPI brings an outstanding theoretical tool that allows us to understand how microscale objects, such as sperm, interact with their environment; and we are able to design this know - how into real microfluidic devices, clinically validate what we designed, and experimentally improve it into a real - world application.»

While Kotov says the first living organisms were likely microscale, he's quick to point out that the work doesn't say nanoparticle ribbons of any sort are precursors to life.

Shukry Habib, a postdoctoral researcher in Nusse's group, developed a microscale bead that can attach to a Wnt (specifically the Wnt3a protein) and track its motion and orientation.

The researchers also demonstrated microscale MRI images in a micro-reactor using parahydrogen, a state of the hydrogen molecule in which the nuclei are aligned in opposite directions.

Researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have shown that early fatigue damage behavior in structures may be predicted through the study of the microscale mechanical behavior of the material.

The research team has developed a microscale electronic sensor to monitor blood flow through artificial blood vessels.

«The same is true for nano - and microscale manufacturing, which can't be scaled up to things like a building façade.»

They achieved this by lithographically patterning a surface with microscale features that convert excess surface tension into a kinetic energy that propels droplets to «hot spots» on the surface.

Synthetic molecular machines and their microscale counterparts are currently a research area of intense activity.

Inspired by natural cellular structures, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, and MIT have developed a new method to 3D print materials with independently tunable macro-and microscale porosity using a ceramic foam ink.

«This work is significant because many commercially available «organ - on - a-chip» devices are not truly microscale, and therefore can totally miss important biological and toxicological phenomena simply because sample volumes and dimensions are too large.

«With the new 3 - D printing method, the Solider can take advantage of the unique actuation properties of soft DEAs at the fundamental materials level with microscale resolution and complexity, with minimal prior expertise.»

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The «microscale magnetic tumbling robot,» or μTUM (microTUM), is about 400 by 800 microns, or millionths of a meter, smaller than the head of a pin.

«We expect a more general application of our model and we will develop our model further, in the next steps, to apply them to microscale systems,» Fang said.

«This is problematic because for microscale robots to operate successfully in real working environments, mobility is critical,» Cappelleri said.

In addition, their pyroelectric properties could be used to engineer microscale and nanoscale thermometers that sense temperature variation, rather than the absolute temperature of a cell.

«Unlike the microTUM, other microscale robots use a rocking motion under an alternating magnetic field, where contact between the robot and the surface is continually lost and regained,» Bi said.

Parviz's research involves embedding nanoscale and microscale electronic devices in materials like paper or plastic.

Berkeley researchers isolated circulating tumor cells from the blood of breast cancer patients, then used microscale physics to design a precision test for protein biomarkers, which are indicators of cancer.

These microscale machines could become a powerful platform for robotics at the size scale of biological microorganisms.

Creating organ models on a microscale has been greatly facilitated by microfluidics, a technology developed in the 1990s that uses micropumps, valves and finely etched channels to manipulate the movement of fluids through a chip.

XPhoton - assisted synthesis and processing of materials in nano - microscale (MATERIAL PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATION)

Also speaking at the event are Dr. Ken Lacovara (Insights from the biggest dinosaur skeleton ever found), Dr. Roy Hamilton (Enhancing human mental performance with noninvasive brain stimulation), Dr. George Brainard (Better lighting for better sleep in space), Denise Wong (Tiny bio-robots for microscale medicine and engineering), Dr. Melinda Keefe (The chemistry of art conservation), and Dr. Michel Barsoum (Molding conductive «clay» into the next generation of batteries)

And, they claim, these microscale machines — equipped with electronic, photonic and chemical payloads — could become a powerful platform for robotics at the size scale of biological microorganisms.