Sentences with phrase «nanometer range»

Every breath we take contains ultra fine toxic nano particulates in the 10 nanometer range.

These are able to characterize smallest magnetic fields with a spatial resolution in the nanometer range.

Not exact matches

X-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength in the range of 10 to 0.1 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 to 3000 PHz.

While some were touching each other, many were further apart — up to 30 nanometers — a range too far for an electron to jump.

A laser in the vacuum ultraviolet range — the Dalian facility will cover 50 — 150 nanometers — «has a soft touch,» he says, making it «the best way to detect molecules and atoms in a gas.»

Boesel's team determined the appropriate angle at which the threads must be bent during weaving so that the blue light stays in the therapeutic wavelength range of around 470 nanometers but is emitted onto the baby's skin, rather than staying in the fabric.

Ranging from a nanometer to hundreds of nanometers in diameter, skyrmions «are probably the smallest magnetic systems... that can be imagined or that can be realized in nature,» says physicist Vincent Cros of Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS / Thales in Palaiseau, France.

One promising material is one that's filled with tiny holes that range in size from about a micron (10 - 6 meters) to about a nanometer (10 - 9 meters).

Nanoparticles range 100 - 200 nanometers in diameter and a nanometer is one billionth of a meter.

The team demonstrated the hologram of three flat images at wavelengths ranging from blue (480 nanometers) to red (680 nanometers).

The first model describes a material filled with holes of random sizes, ranging from microns to nanometers in diameter.

By measuring the effect for different material thicknesses in the range of a few nanometers up to several micrometers as well as for different temperatures, the scientists have found characteristic behavior.

Rescue workers and those who survived the Twin Towers» collapse were bathed in the dust, which contained particles of sizes ranging from the millimeter scale down to nanometers in width, the right size to embed deep in the lungs if inhaled.

The tiny bumps, which range in diameter from 50 to 300 nanometers, help the insects camouflage: by breaking up the cornea's even surface, they cut down the glare that reflects off the eye, which could potentially alert a predator to the bug's presence.

The nanorods range in size from a few hundred nanometers to a few micrometers in length, and a few tens of nanometers in diameter.

Like turning the knob on a radio, the team adjusted the pulse so that, if the artificial horizon emitted any Hawking radiation, its wavelength would be between 800 and 900 nanometers, a range that could not be confused with other sources such as laser - induced fluorescence.

Researchers fashioned different devices in which the width of the silicon dioxide ranged from 120 to 400 nanometers, as they report in a paper in press at Physical Review Letters.

One of the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom can be found in species of stomatopod crustaceans (mantis shrimp), some of which have 12 different photoreceptor types, each sampling a narrow set of wavelengths ranging from deep ultraviolet to far red (300 to 720 nanometers)(1 — 3).

As more water was removed, these so - called micelles joined together to form larger gel - like structures ranging between 100 and 200 nanometers in diameter.

In a recent example, outlined in Nature last year by a team from Yale University and the University of Washington in Seattle, laser light routed through a tiny bridge - shaped resonator induced the bridge to vibrate up and down within a range of a few nanometers.

The DNA nanobot is shaped like a gearshift, with an extendible arm that ranges from 25 to more than 400 nanometers long that's attached to a 55 - by -55-nanometer platform.

Background Colloidal solutions (also called colloidal suspensions) contain little particles, ranging from one to 1,000 nanometers in diameter.

Before experimenting with contaminated water, the group used water mixed with red ink particles ranging from 70 to 500 nanometers in size.

Though single crystals were once thought to be too fragile for flexible applications, the UMass Amherst team found that crystals ranging in thickness from about 150 nanometers to 1 micrometer were thin enough to be wrinkled and applied to any elastomer substrate.

Most organisms that get their energy from photosynthesis use light in the visible range, wavelengths of about 400 to 700 nanometers.

A multidisciplinary team at the Centre d'Elaboration de Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales (CEMES, CNRS), working in collaboration with physicists in Singapore and chemists in Bristol (UK), have shown that crystalline gold nanoparticles aligned and then fused into long chains can be used to confine light energy down to the nanometer scale while allowing its long - range propagation.

Exploiting the properties of such nanoparticles should therefore make it possible to simultaneously achieve confinements in the nanometer region and the long - range transport of information.

In the nanocrystals, which range from two to 150 nanometers wide, only two electrons per crystal may hop between energy rungs.

The researchers placed particles of gold ranging in diameter from 15 to 30 nanometers in a fluid suspension within a thin chamber located between two electrodes.

In recent years Lin's team devised a method to produce particles that are all between 20 and 40 nanometers in size (a nanometer is one - billionth of a meter), a range best able to elude macrophages.

Not only can this technique detect magnetic fields with nanometer accuracy, it can determine their force as well, opening up an extraordinary range of applications.

Nanoparticles, which range from 1 - 100 nanometers in size, are roughly the same size as biomolecules such as proteins, antibodies, and membrane receptors.

Exomeres clock in at less than 50 nanometers in diameter, compared with small exosomes (Exo - S), which range from 60 to 80 nanometers in diameter, and large exosomes (Exo - L), which are 90 to 120 nanometers in diameter.

Abstract: Meshes made from fibers with nanometer - scale diameters have a wide range of potential applications, including tissue engineering, water filtration, solar cells, and even body armor.

Furthermore, KELT - 9b receives ~ 700 times more extreme ultraviolet radiation (wavelengths shorter than 91.2 nanometers) than WASP - 33b, leading to a predicted range of mass - loss rates that could leave the planet largely stripped of its envelope during the main - sequence lifetime of the host star.

Abstract: Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have devised a clever combination of materials — when used during the thin - film growth process — to reveal that particle atomic layer deposition, or p - ALD, deposits a uniform nanometer - thick shell on core particles regardless of core size, a discovery having significant impacts for many applications since most large scale powder production techniques form powder batches that are made up of a range of particles sizes.

What's next: The multi-scale computational method, ranging from ab initio calculation to long time dynamics method, will be further employed to study structural evolution of nanometer - sized metal clusters with increasing size and phase transformation of these metal clusters.

Photosynthetically available radiation (PAR) refers to the spectral range (wave band) of solar radiation from 400 - 700 nanometers (the visible wavelengths and the spectrum used by plants for photosynthesis) that is absorbed by the chlorophyll molecule.

Another major reason is technical: virions are tiny (with diameters ranging from 20 nanometers to over one micrometer), and so scientists need transmission electron microscopes to see their unique and varied shapes.

RNA nanoparticles must be within the range of 15 to 50 nanometers,» he says, «large enough to be retained by the body and not enter cells randomly, causing toxicity, but small enough to enter the targeted cells with the aid of cell surface receptions.

The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) can study these objects across a spectral range from the UV (115 nanometers) through the visible red and the near - IR (1000 nanometers).

Meshes made from fibers with nanometer - scale diameters have a wide range of potential applications.

The scientists selected stars that shine brighter in ultraviolet, that is, from118 to 320 nanometers, the working range of the spectrometer (there were a total of 50 of them).

The observed range («Coverage» in the graphic below) is 0.05 to 100,000 nanometers within an Electromagnetic Spectrum of 0.000001 to 100,000,000,000 nanometers.

The Ultra-High-Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer (UHSAS) is an optical - scattering, laser - based aerosol particle spectrometer system for sizing particles in the 60 to 1000 nanometer (nm) range [1 — 3].

And they come in very different sizes, ranging from a few nanometers to tens of micrometers.