Sentences with word «micrometre»

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

Sometimes, he noticed, the tip would puncture the graphene sheet and it would continue to tear apart in long ribbons of varying size — up to tens of micrometres long.

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

Tissue samples a few micrometres thick were then imaged by laser scanning.

The pits are 1.6 micrometres apart — fifty times narrower than a human hair.

A fully funded PhD studentship for ** ANY ** UK / EU student is available within Queen's University Belfast under the topic of «Solar Physics with Biomedical Applications: Revealing the hidden science on micrometre to megametre scales».

The pigments form a layer between 0 — 40 micrometres deep under the insect's cuticle, putting them in the perfect position to capture the Sun's light.

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

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.

Etienne Jambon - Puillet of the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France and his colleagues found that when they placed a large number of 250 - micrometre particles made from zirconium oxide blended with amorphous silica on top of a pool of oil, they stuck together and acted as if they were a solid surface.

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

They split each cubic micrometre into a 10 × 10 × 2 grid and focused the trap on each voxel in turn.

With length of several micrometres the wires can exceed the length of the cells by far, but their diameter is only a few nanometres.

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

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

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

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

Piezoelectric motors can move the 12 electrodes in small 1 - micrometre increments and will back off when necessary to avoid damaging nerve cells.

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.

Rollins's group piped millisecond - long pulses of infrared laser light with a wavelength of 1.87 micrometres through...

By using the most concentrated hydrofluoric acid available, the pores can be made as small as one to two nanometres wide, but many micrometres long.

Individual baculovirus particles are usually found in colonies within micrometre - sized capsules, or polyhedra.

They trapped one sphere in a laser beam and then fired rapid pulses of light from a second laser at others a few micrometres away.

Such a raindrop (perhaps about 1 mm [0.04 inch] in radius) contains perhaps one million 10 - micrometre cloud droplets.

The pattern of temperature increase with height in the stratosphere is the result of solar heating as ultraviolet radiation in the wavelength range of 0.200 to 0.242 micrometre dissociates diatomic oxygen (O2).

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

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.

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.

The glass plates of an FLCD screen must be spaced just 1.5 micrometres apart.

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

The bots only swam 5.5 micrometres per second, but that's still faster than many other similar mini-machines.

«The light elements that makes up these «molecular tadpoles» are easily located by neutrons» says Dr Isabelle Grillo, at the ILL. «Moreover, small angle neutron scattering which we use at the ILL allows to characterise the self - assembled systems from the nanometre scale to tenth of micrometres and is perfectly adapted to observe the coming together of the C60 footballs» into these beautiful core structures.»

The occlusion body (the virus «cocoon») has a volume of around 0.01 cubic micrometres, about one hundred times smaller than the smallest artificially grown protein crystals that have until now been analysed using crystallographic techniques.

The wires stretch out for several micrometres, longer than a single cell.

The sensor developed by the team at TU Wien is made from silicon and is based on a very simple concept: small, grid - shaped silicon structures measuring just a few micrometres in size are fixed onto a small spring.

For bulk materials larger than one micrometre the percentage of atoms at the surface is minuscule relative to the total number of atoms of the material.

After a month of digitally enhancing the fingerprints, and producing several different prosthetic prototypes, each with a micrometre - thick coating of metal on the surface, they eventually cracked the phone.

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.

Urbasi Sinha of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and colleagues managed to do it by carving into a metal coating on a glass plate to make three equally spaced slits 30 micrometres wide and 100 micrometres apart.

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.

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

So Samir Mitragotri of the University of California and his team added 7 - micrometre - wide balls made of a polymer called PLGA to a solvent that causes the balls to collapse.