Sentences with phrase «narrower than a human hair»

After you joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in 1992, your attention turned to carbon nanotubes, carbon cylinders 10,000 times narrower than a human hair.

Made from aluminium gallium arsenide, the nanocrystals are 500 times narrower than a human hair and can be applied to ordinary glass as ultra-thin, lightweight films.

They focused on sugars, which are produced in the leaves by photosynthesis and transported through tubes 20 times narrower than a human hair to roots and new shoots.

A printing head narrower than a human hair delivers a toothpaste - consistency stream of a special lithium ink that hardens after discharge.

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The technology builds on tiny structures known as silicon photonic wires, which are roughly a hundred times narrower than a typical human hair.