Sentences with word «nanoscopic»

In the journal Angewandte Chemie («Ultralight Mesoporous Magnetic Frameworks by Interfacial Assembly of Prussian Blue Nanocubes»), a team of Chinese and Australian researchers has now introduced a method for the synthesis of ultralight three - dimensional (3D) iron oxide frameworks with two different types of nanoscopic pores and tunable surface properties.
DNA is more than just the secret of life — it is also a versatile component for making nanoscopic structures and devices
In 2002, IBM developed a punch - card system, known as Millipede, using a thin polymer sheet with nanoscopic holes to provide a simple way to store binary data.
The coating surface is rough at the nanoscale, but the hydroxyl is strongly hydrophilic, which helps nanoscopic pores throughout the multilayers to soak up water like a sponge, instantly wicking it away from the surface.
Three creators of such nanoscopic machines were honored October 5 with the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
This layer consists of two sheets of charged, see - through plastic that are separated by nanoscopic spring coils.
A new study shows that in nanoscopic channels, the effective viscosity of water in channels made of glass can be twice as high as water in plastic channels.
When the droplet strikes the glass, which is coated with nanoscopic pyramids made from a negatively charged silicone material called polydimethylsiloxane, it creates an electric current.
The sensor response appears to involve the closing of nanoscopic gaps or «break junctions» in wires caused by the dilation of palladium grains undergoing hydrogen absorption.
In another study, scientists at the University of Utah found that nanoscopic particles of silver used as an antimicrobial in hundreds of products, including jeans, baby bottles, and washing machines, can deform fish embryos.
The mesostructured silicon, named for its complex internal structures of nanoscopic wires, was created using a process called nano - casting.
«The new Park Nanoscience Center at SUNY Polytechnic Institute provides researchers with greater access to Park Systems» cutting - edge AFM nanoscopic tools, featuring reliable and repeatable high - resolution imaging of nanoscale cell structures in any environment without damage to the sample.»
Combing nanoscience and surfactant research, the researchers devised a new class of surfactants consisting of nanoscopic domains within a two - component nanoparticle.
The creators of Geckel used electron - beam lithography to drill nanoscopic holes in a thin polymer film, creating a mold.
As they dropped, the droplets first separated into nanoscopic subunits.
And, there's a great deal of chemistry occurs at the interfaces of these microscopic to nanoscopic aerosol particles.»
Wire arrays in which all wires possessed nanoscopic gaps reverted to open circuits in the absence of hydrogen gas.
The team developed the world's first FEBID based nanoscopic gas sensor.
According to Plank, the team is now planning to functionalize nanoscopic surfaces with the aim of developing very specialized nano sensors that can be integrated in a mobile telephone and are capable of measuring not just the humidity of the air, but also the CO or sulphur content.
To map the roughly 1300 connections, or synapses, between the cells, researchers used an electron microscope to take millions of nanoscopic pictures from a speck of tissue not much bigger than a dust mite, carved into nearly 3700 slices.
The horizontally layered material is perforated by vertical nanoscopic holes, giving it a fishnet - like structure — and its light - bending properties.
But he believes the wires could conceivably find use as simple motors for nanoscopic machinery.
Nanoscopic glass channels can make water flow more like ketchup than ordinary H2O.
Exploring cellular microcompartments fundamentally requires imaging techniques capable to resolve nanoscopic structures.
Like nanoscopic machines, protein complexes and assemblies carry out a variety of essential cellular processes.
MagSi - Direct provides a convenient and efficient way to attach virtually any biomolecule to nanoscopic paramagnetic beads.
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Researchers have developed a technique that pulls nanoscopic metal crystals to eliminate defects.
They reveal tiny objects, structures and life that are too nanoscopic for us to see with our naked eyes.
According to a research team led by Thomas Hund, the key may reside in voltage-gated sodium channels, nanoscopic pores that control the flow of sodium ions across the heart cell membrane.
These could for example be atoms or quantum dots, i.e., nanoscopic structures made from semiconductor material.
(It is now paying the average for so - called bank sweep accounts which is a nanoscopic 0.12 %!)
Due to the nanoscopic structure of the taro leaves, water does not adhere to it.
This is one counter worth sitting at, if only to watch the artful choreography of the chefs bumping around like pinballs inside the nanoscopic open kitchen.
If a magnetic and non-magnetic droplets are fused together, they create a nanoscopic compass.
The tiny molecular machine threads the rings around a nanoscopic chain — a sort of axle — and squeezes the rings together, with only a few nanometers separating them.
With the growth of the Internet, a host of Titanic experts have become newly obsessed with the details down to the nanoscopic level.
We have seen this in animals, and now we see this process in the nanoscopic world of molecular evolution too.»
A twisted laser beam hits a nanoscopic U-shaped gold grating which further twists the beam in either a right or left - handed direction.
The nanoscopic landing pads are modified with one sequence of DNA, and the gold nanoparticles are modified with complementary DNA.
«The nanoscopic structure that locks up our genes.»
The researchers also discovered that increasing the roughness of a surface by enlarging its nanoscopic pores actually decreased this angular threshold, meaning that rougher surfaces need not be as water - repellent to foster the growth of more - easily removed ice.
Researchers say the diamond probes could be used for a wide range of applications, but Jaque suspects they'll be most useful for observing the nanoscopic world, in particular the minute temperature fluctuations in living cells.
One promising technique involves reading DNA bases using changes in electrical current as they are threaded through a nanoscopic hole.
Direct pictures would be extremely useful, but seeing the intimate details of biology — a nanoscopic folded protein, a virus's coat, or a DNA helix as it is unwound and transcribed into RNA — requires an instrument that can focus tightly on molecules in their natural, wet environment.
So nano - solenoids could perhaps be used in super-efficient nanocircuits or as part of a nanoscopic machine.
Xiang said Caltech is the first to use a nanoscopic layer of titanium dioxide — a material found in many toothpastes and sunscreens — to prevent semiconductors such as silicon from getting rusty or corroding when exposed to water.
Both showed visually stunning examples of their research using super-resolution microscopy, a method that transcends the diffraction limit of conventional light microscopes to probe on a nanoscopic scale.
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