Sentences with phrase «nanometers long»

The highest - performing particles are about 100 nanometers long and 25 nanometers wide.

Her nested nanotubes have six walls and are just nine nanometers across — but a whopping 350,000 nanometers long.

Researchers are hoping that other shapes, such a flexible, wormlike nanoparticle that is 80 nanometers in diameter and 500 nanometers long, will perform even better.

The research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS), indicates that rod - shaped particles (150 nanometers in diameter by 450 nanometers long) penetrated human cells about four times faster and traveled farther into the cells than particles with more balanced dimensions (such as 200 nanometers by 200 nanometers).

The final product is cellulose nanocrystals, tiny rod - like structures that are 120 nanometers long and have a diameter of 6.5 nanometers.

Doctoral candidates Philip Ketterer and Elena Willner collaborated with Dietz in building a rotory mechanism from three multilayer DNA building blocks: a rotor unit, with a body roughly 32 nanometers long and a longer, lever - like extension; and two clamp elements that «click» together to form an axle bearing.

It's full of very small rods, about a hundred nanometers long.

Made out of a mere five molecules, the Ohio Bobcat Nanowagon checks in at 3.5 nanometers long and 2.5 wide — about the width of a DNA strand.

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.

Green light, by contrast, has a wavelength of 500 nanometers — 60,000 times smaller — so the shapes that could cloak it would have to be around 50 nanometers long.

The device consists of a rectangular bar of insulating silicon dioxide 85 nanometers thick and 2000 nanometers long surrounded by conducing silver, which light generally doesn't penetrate.

Recently Jiao found a way to grow cobalt oxide rods, each 30 to 40 nanometers long, that cluster together like the buildings in Lower Manhattan.

Not exact matches

Its economic development unit, Empire State Development, has established a long - term, multibillion - dollar game plan to attract nanotechnology manufacturers to make not only solar panels but also semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and other products from very small materials (there are 25,400,000 nanometers in an inch).

To map the minute landscape of molecules, at scales as tiny as just tenths of a nanometer, and help decipher their functions, structural biologists have long relied on two tools: nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

To disperse the aluminum compound and make the metal less brittle, researchers led by materials scientist Hansoo Kim of Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea added nickel, which caused the aluminum compound to permeate the metal in nanometer - sized clusters instead of long bands.

This so - called carbon nanotube could be likened to an unimaginably long garden hose: a hollow tube just a nanometer or so in diameter but perhaps millions of times as long as it is wide.

And because they are only 2 to 8 nanometers in diameter, they are easy for the kidneys to clear from the body before they block up blood vessels, a long - standing problem in nanoparticle therapy.

In a study published in Science, University of Utah researchers report the eludication of a mechanism that regulates the length of the flagellum's 25 nanometer driveshaft - like rod and answers a long - standing question about how cells are held together.

In May, researchers at Hewlett - Packard (HP) unveiled their long - anticipated «memristor,» [subscription required] a device only a few nanometers wide that could revolutionize computer memory and help researchers build a machine that functions like a human brain.

The cross-section of a 100 - nanometer - long «meta - atom» of gold and silicon oxide.

Although SIM and other superresolution techniques are pushing to spatial resolutions as high as 20 nanometers, they do not have the field of view of a technique like Bessel beam microscopy; they can only see a very small area, and imaging a larger area with those techniques takes a long time.

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.

The standard for DNA origami has long been limited to a scaffold strand that is made up of 7,249 bases, creating structures that measure roughly 70 nanometers (nm) by 90 nm, though the shapes may vary.

The telescope's state - of - the - art instrumentation, including a 4 - meter primary mirror polished to a surface roughness of 2 nanometers (2 billionths of a meter), will give scientists an unprecedented view of the sun, and help answer long - standing fundamental questions in solar physics.

To keep the system running for hours at a time, the Toshiba team also implemented a feedback system to stretch certain meters - long optical fibers within Alice's and Bob's detectors by a few nanometers, thus keeping the ratio of those lengths constant to a few parts in a billion.

«The metal colloids are only a few nanometers in size, but their particular ratio of size to surface area produces a distinctive long - term effect.

This technology can zoom in on objects as small as a few nanometers big (a few billionths of a meter wide) and can catch a moment in time to reveal what happens over about 15 nanoseconds (15 billionths of a second long).

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.

In a second paper in the current issue of the journal Nano Letters, Zewail and his colleagues described their visualization of the changes in a nanometer - thick graphite membrane on a longer time scale, up to a thousandth of a second.

A roughly 100 - nanometer - long diamond containing NV centers is attached to the AFM tip.

The heat energy released from the earth, however, is released in wavelengths longer than 4,000 nanometers.

Except this time the titanium dioxide arrives in the form of nanotubes about 135 nanometers wide and a tenth of a millimeter long.

But even if it's the long - rumored A11 chip with its 10 - nanometer design that may not be the sort of feature customers get excited about.

Coupled with its Snapdragon 835 processor, which OnePlus says draws 40 percent less power than the larger previous generation 14 - nanometer chips, the OnePlus 5 should, according to the company, last approximately 20 percent longer than the OnePlus 3T, despite the fact that it features a smaller 3,300 mAh capacity battery.