Sentences with word «microscale»

For example, recent studies have illustrated the ability of microscale machines to write, image, and repair nanoscale structures.

It was developed using microscale modelling to capture small scale wind variability, allowing for better estimates of the aggregated wind resources.

To address this challenge and engineer complex 3 - D tissues, researchers at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and the University of Sydney in Australia were able to combine a novel elastic hydrogel with microscale technologies to create an artificial cardiac tissue that mimics the mechanical and biological properties of the native heart.

I am extremely excited to now be working on microscale tissue constructs of the human myocardium, which might be used to study aspects of human developmental biology and serve as novel substrates for drug screening.

He is expert in application of the mesoscale modelling output (numerical wind atlas data) in microscale models (including WAsP) for site specific verification and feasibility studies.

«Expanding this methodology to non-biological crystalline materials will result in microscale architectures with enhanced photonic, electronic, and catalytic properties,» said Tanya Shirman, a postdoctoral fellow at SEAS and Technology Development Fellow at Wyss Institute and co-author of the research.

Since molecular machines are still fragile and difficult to scale up, many of these practical applications have relied on «larger» microscale machines.

Chinese researchers have now developed microscale optical waveguides.

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

With current microscale technology, this chip would be the size of a tennis court or at the very best a large - car parking space — too big to ever be practical.

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

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

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

For show - and - tell, the Rice team patterned millimeter - sized LIG Owls (the school's mascot), and for practical testing they fabricated microscale supercapacitors with LIG electrodes in one - step scribing.

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.

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.

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.

The «microscale magnetic tumbling robot,» or?

«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.

McDevitt, a senior investigator at Gladstone, received the award to fund his efforts to use human pluripotent stem cells to engineer microscale tissue constructs.

(A) Interaction between Vps33 and SNARE complex measured by microscale thermophoresis.

There, I performed the spectroscopic analysis of the in silico predicted protein - ligand pairs of endocrine disruptors and breast cancer proteins using circular dichroism, native mass spectrometry and microscale thermophoresis.

«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.»

It's hard to believe that today's microscale drives use essentially the same technology.

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.

That company, Orbis Biosciences in Kansas City, Kansas, is based on Berkland's research from the University of Illinois on processes to create microscale spheres and capsules with uniform properties.

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.

The consumer electronics revolution was not brought about so much by the fact that microfabrication technologies allowed the formation of microscale transistors as that they allowed the cost - effective integration of millions of transistors in a functioning unit (e.g., a Pentium processor).

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

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

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 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.

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

Similar to natural biomotors that ferry materials around cells, artificial microscale motors have been shown useful to load, transport, and release a variety of cargos at well - defined positions.

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.

«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.

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.

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)

«This study is remarkable in that it links microscale remodeling of dendritic spine architecture to behavioral performance in adult mice, outside of the developmentally relevant critical period.

Chronic inhalation studies in rats have been associated with pulmonary fibrosis and cancer, and exposure to microscale amporphous silica has been linked to inflammation, granuloma formation and emphysema.

The lander would also use instruments to determine whether carbon stable isotope distribution is consistent with biological activity, to resolve and characterize microscale evidence for life in the samples it collects, to identify objects as small as one millimeter in the vehicle's workspace (and to do so in color), and to search for evidence of extant or fossil biology by determining the make - up of non-ice inorganic materials and minerals found near the surface, the report noted.

Brains that have been voxelated into ~ 700 cubes will be prepared using automated microscale sample processing and analyzed using high - throughput reversed - phase liquid chromatography coupled online with high - resolution mass spectrometry to obtain both the spatial localization and relative abundance of brain proteins.

Our project will utilize two novel microscale technologies originating from our laboratory, namely highly precise molecular micropatterning and miniaturized axon nano - compressors to address this problem.

Researchers at MIT have devised a way to graft nanoscale electronic devices onto floating microscale particles to monitor everything from gases in a range of environments to the human digestive system.

Wave section creation has microscale factors of peel angle and wave breaking intensity.