Sentences with phrase «millionths of a millimeter»
The team reports that a wisp of plastic just 50 millionths of a millimeter long behaved very much like a microscopic Slinky.
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Shaping nanometric gold particles — of the size of millionths of a millimeter — to improve their properties in biomedicine and photonics has been made possible thanks to a special laser system in a work carried out at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and now published in Science.
That gave him the idea for his latest project: a nano - abacus, with beads of individual molecules less than a millionth of a millimeter wide.
«With our method, we were able to precisely measure the distance between two areas of the cytochrome to a fraction of a millionth of a millimeter,» emphasizes Schiemann's staff member Andreas Berndhäuser.
The tiny vehicle measures only about 30 nanometers (millionths of a millimeter).
The tracks of this cellular railway are almost unimaginably small — just 25 nanometers across (a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter).
The instrument uses a carefully engineered cantilever with a tip just nanometers (millionths of a millimeter) across to scan a surface in the way the needle of a phonograph does.
Nanomaterials are named for their impossibly small dimensions, measured in nanometers (one millionth of a millimeter).
The tip, similar to the kind used in atomic force microscopes, is attached to a bendable cantilever that controllably scans the surface of the substrate material with the accuracy of one nanometer — a millionth of a millimeter.
«In the case of these materials, the additive is tiny flakes of a clay that are only a nanometer (one millionth of a millimeter) thick,» says Alan I. Taub, executive director of science for GM Research and Development.
Not exact matches
The component has a base area of less than one millionth of a square millimeter without the data transmission rate being affected adversely.
In particular, this is the case for special ultra-thin glass fibers which have a diameter of only a few hundred nanometers (one nanometer is a millionth part of a millimeter) and which are thereby smaller than the wavelength of light.
The researchers made lenses about a few millimeters thick with a magnification power of 160 times and a resolution of about 4 microns (millionths of a meter)-- two times lower in optical resolution than many commercial microscopes, but more than three orders of magnitude lower in cost.