Sentences with phrase «many micrometres»

The result was an open cell structure with cavities measuring between 50 and 150 micrometres in diameter, bound by slender polymer strands.

Most of this plastic disintegrates into particles smaller than five millimetres, referred to as microplastics, and breaks down further into nanoparticles, which are less than 0.1 micrometre in size.

Unyong Jeong's team at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, covered a flexible rubber film with a sheet of corrugated microporous polystyrene, with gutters around 3 micrometres wide and 1 micrometre deep.

Lars Peter Nielsen and his colleagues at Aarhus University in Denmark have found that tens of thousands of electric bacteria can join together to form daisy chains that carry electrons over several centimetres — a huge distance for a bacterium only 3 or 4 micrometres long.

To measure the velocity, the team used two laser beams to trap a dust - sized, 3 - micrometre - wide glass bead in mid-air.

It is enough, for instance, that the stimulus that provides the sensation of touch is moved some ten micrometres across the skin in order for the neural patterns to be completely different,» says Henrik Jörntell.

The Casimir effect is a force that tries to push together conducting plates held within a few micrometres of each other.

Made entirely of light, the channel was 200 micrometres long and 20 wide at its widest point.

The particles found measure just five micrometres or less; approximately 20 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

For now, such technology can cloak only objects with a surface area of a few square micrometres and a few hundred nanometres deep.

The burrows measure from under 50 to 600 micrometres or microns -LRB-?

In contrast to other gate mechanisms the distance between the qubits — in our case 2 to 12 micrometres — does not matter at all,» Bastian Hacker emphasizes.

Next, the team diced up each brain into 500,000 pieces each measuring 100 micrometres cubed.

Using a microscope with a laser attached, they precisely cut the brains into slices 20 micrometres thick and stained them to identify the different brain structures.

Due to their extreme thinness of under one micrometre, the electrodes can be adapted perfectly to the uneven human skin, and can even be applied to parts of the body where traditional electrodes are not suitable, for instance the face.

Inside these specks, which measured just 5 to 25 micrometres across, they found trapped pockets of water (PNAS, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1320115111).

The size of skin squames is generally larger than 10 micrometres (or 0.001 centimetres).

Various forces such as surface adhesion or electrostatic charge cause the particles to adhere to each other in systems with extremely small particles measuring only a few micrometres.

This could be measured at a wavelength of 4.5 micrometres with James Webb's NIRSpec instrument.

Colossal molecules have been created that are a full micrometre wide, and could find uses in quantum computing

Garnier's device is about 50 micrometres in size, more than ten times larger than conventional transistors that are etched onto silicon chips.

Sulphur pearl of Namibia (Thiomargarita namibiensis) Length: 750 micrometres From the biggest of the biggest, we go to the biggest of the smallest.

The SECM uses a flat - faced probe a few micrometres across, which forms one electrode in an electrochemical cell.

But later analysis showed that these signals were caused by spheres of ice between 18 and 80 micrometres across.

The team observed that when the colloidal particles are micrometre - sized, the force and speed of impact change how the shocks are absorbed.

At DESY, the researchers successfully created an image of a hexagonal, micrometre sized structure in the shape of a benzene ring.

The carbon atoms are arranged in hexagons and a typical tube measures about 1.2 to 30 nanometres in diameter and around a micrometre long.

X-rays generated at that facility enable scientists to study and characterize the structure of edible fats at meso and micro levels (hundreds of nanometres to a few micrometres in size).

The new experiment uses a silicon bar about 12 micrometres long and less than a micrometre across.

The shorter time for drug delivery is made possible as the miniature needles on the patch create micrometre - sized porous channels in the skin to deliver the drug rapidly.

These tiny polymer scaffolds contain channels that are about 100 micrometres wide, about the same diameter as a human hair.

The scaffold is built out of a series of thin layers, stamped with a pattern of channels that are each about 50 to 100 micrometres wide.

«A regular paper network has fibres 30 micrometres in diameter, here we are at a scale three orders of magnitude smaller,» says Berglund.

SAM has been processing scoops of fine sand, with grains less than 150 micrometres across.

They used laser light to melt copper and gold into micrometre - sized droplets and deposited these in a controlled manner.

The bulbs are bulky, wear out and only work up to wavelengths of 4.5 micrometres.

These all absorb radiation at wavelengths in the mid-infrared between 3 and 10 micrometres.

If an infrared detector finds an absorption line in the spectrum at 4.2 micrometres, for example, this is a sure sign that CO2 is present (see Graph).

The discovery is significant, as micrometre - sized particles are easier and safer to process than nanoparticles.

By means of standing X-ray wave fields, they were able to scan both graphene and substrate at a precision of a few millionths of a micrometre — less than a tenth of the radius of an atom.

For example, the researchers stacked thousands of drops to form micro-pillars with a height of 2 millimetres and a diameter of 5 micrometres.

For small structures in particular (from 100 nanometres to 10 micrometres) no good solutions for this problem existed yet.

The system passes the wet algae into a settling tank, filters them, dehydrates them in a dryer and mills them into fine particles less than 50 micrometres across.

Individual axons are microscopic in diameter - typically about one micrometre across - but may extend to macroscopic lengths.

But he added that a small panel with printed details as small as 3 micrometres had already been made, and this was achievable by lithography.

Ions from the water attached themselves to the cultivator blade, forming a layer a few micrometres thick, and a current of between 0.2 and 2.6 amps passed through the soil.

All of the outputs of the ion pump can also be rapidly switched on or off with the aid of micrometre - sized ion diodes.

But one of the most common bacteria doesn't have a flagellum, yet it can still swim at a perfectly respectable 25 micrometres per second.

Opening and closing a lid on the beaker generated pulses of CO2 that changed the growth rate and made the stems spread into iris - like blossoms, each just 25 micrometres across.

Their printer is capable of producing features just 40 micrometres wide, and thin films just 16 micrometres thick.