Sentences with phrase «nanometers wide»

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

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

The measurement approach consists of a microchip with a single hole or pore in it that is a few nanometers wide — about 5,000 times smaller than a human hair.

To build the material, the researchers fabricated a silicon dioxide mold with «nano - wires,» or tiny channels, about 7 nanometers wide connected by «micro-bridges» and filled with silane gas.

In the experiment, they could see that nearly every carbon atom of the original plastic was incorporated into «nanodiamonds» — small diamond structures up to a few nanometers wide.

They report * that measurements of the etched lines — as thin as 16 nanometers wide — on the SEMATECH - fabricated wafer were accurate to one nanometer.

Scientists have established that ultrasound waves can spin a 200 nanometers wide rod up to an impressive 150,000 rpm (Image: NIST)

(Each pore is approximately 2.5 nanometers wide, big enough to hold a variety of cargo.)

More recently a team of Stanford University researchers led by Hari Manoharan were able to encode 35 bits of information per electron and write letters so small they are composed of subatomic bits of matter only 0.3 nanometers wide, or roughly one third of a billionth of a meter.

For comparison, a human hair is 75,000 nanometers wide.

The oblong pores, about 2 to 4 nanometers wide, were spread throughout the material.

They found a 2012 paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B that explained how, in certain situations where liquid is confined in a teeny - tiny space (roughly 1.5 nanometers wide), the liquid can spontaneously evaporate.

The team then developed a cathode made entirely from tellurium nanowires just seven nanometers wide, which they laid together to form a mat.

At the smallest scale, the awns are covered with grooves about 100 nanometers deep and 200 nanometers wide, the perfect size for dew to condense within them when conditions are right.

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

Solid hydrocarbon particles tens of nanometers wide clump together in the atmosphere to form the haze before eventually settling onto Pluto's surface (SN: 4/15/17, p. 14).

Then in 1991, while studying the unique atomic structures called buckyballs, which are created by electrically charging carbon soot, Sumio Iijima of Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan, discovered the first nanotubes — fantastically strong cylindrical carbon - atom constructions less than two nanometers wide and of varying lengths.

Matching results were seen with transistors made from silica tubes 10 to 100 nanometers wide.

In the experiment, they were able to see that nearly every carbon atom of the original plastic was incorporated into small diamond structures up to a few nanometers wide.

The researchers created mathematical models of the meta - atom, a material 100 nanometers wide and 25 nanometers tall that combined gold and silicon oxide in stairstep fashion.

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.

One group stuck the nanotubes onto a polymer film and used ionized argon gas to slice open each tube, resulting in ribbons as narrow as 6 nanometers wide.

This section of metal is about 50 nanometers wide.

To observe nucleation in a collagen gap — about 2 nanometers high and 40 nanometers wide — the team studied calcium phosphate nucleation with in situ small - angle X-ray scattering at the Advanced Photon Source in Argonne National Lab.

However, for graphene to have the necessary semiconducting properties, it must be cut into ribbons less than 10 nanometers wide.

(A nanometer is very small — a human hair is about 100,000 nanometers wide!)

This allowed researchers to make wires two nanometers wide.

This tiny US flag — just a few nanometers wide and invisible to the naked eye — is arguably the world's smallest image of Old Glory, according to its creators at the University of Texas at Dallas.

The silks get their strength from thin crystal proteins only nanometers wide, which are stacked together like pancakes.

By formulating their product with bits of carnauba (palm - tree wax) that are only nanometers wide, automotive cosmetics maker Eagle One says it's able to make a coating that always goes on clear.

Those branches, or spatulae, are a mere 200 nanometers wide at the tip.

On a nanoscale level, the scales on a snake's belly are covered in minuscule hairs, called microfibrils, which are less than 400 nanometers wide.

And modules that form three - pronged vertices assemble into various objects, including dodecahedrons that are 440 nanometers wide.

New evidence, in the form of diamonds several nanometers wide, supports a theory proposed last year that a comet collision or a similar explosive event threw up debris and caused the cooling.

At 200 to 500 nanometers wide, they are one - tenth the diameter of a typical Escherichia coli.

Magnetospirillum cells contain a number of small particles of magnetite (Fe3O4), each approx. 45 nanometers wide.

To honor the visionary Feynman, Otte and his team now coded a section of Feynman's lecture on an area 100 nanometers wide.

Quantum dots are semiconductor particles only a few nanometers wide — small enough that they behave like individual atoms.

By filtering seawater through holes that are about 0.5 nanometers wide, the desalination process captures all dissolved material, including salt, while the fresh water passes through.

Dekker's group skirted the issue by making their SET so tinyone nanometer wide and 20 nanometers longthat heat fluctuations proved irrelevant.

Their combined technologies let them pump electrons into nanotubes that are little more than a nanometer wide and then excite them with polarized light.

The main difference is that the particles in Nano Cell film are all just 1 nanometer wide, whereas in Quantum Dot sheets, the particles are different sizes.

Not exact matches

A team there recently printed what they call silver nanowire ink — a paste composed of 100 - nanometer - wide wires, jumbled together — onto paper made with fibers slightly wider than common paper.

The researchers synthesized batches of two different single DNA strands, then attached each strand to its own 20 - nanometer - wide gold particle.

These pores are just a few nanometers across — too small for bacterial or viral cells to squeeze through, but wide enough for sweat to escape.

The 180 - nanometer - wide fibers are made of beta - keratin, a protein similar to the one in human hair.

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.

These 25 - nanometer - wide tubes — thousands of times smaller than a red blood cell — are found in every cell in plants and animals.

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.

Chemist Charles Lieber and co-workers at Harvard University created simple logic circuits incorporating up to six transistors by crisscrossing nanometer - wide wires of silicon and gallium - nitride, each junction of which forms a transistor.