Sentences with word «octahedron»

Her childhood was steeped in art making and alongside her two sisters she would often help her father in constructing paper models of octahedrons and tetrahedrons for his minimalist sculptures.

Seeman used this technique to guide branched DNA molecules into stick polyhedra including cubes and truncated octahedrons.

The silicon atoms surrounded by six oxygen atoms are shown as green octahedrons.

3 Pyraminx is made of 14 smaller units of three different colorations: 4 corner tetrahedrons colored on three sides (red), 6 edge tetrahedrons colored on two sides (orange), and 4 center octahedrons colored on three nonadjacent sides (yellow).

When assembled into the 3D octahedrons, each vertex of the frame had a few of these «sticky end» tethers available for binding with objects coated with complementary DNA strands.

«When nanoparticles coated with single strand tethers are mixed with the DNA origami octahedrons, the «free» pieces of DNA find one another so the bases can pair up according to the rules of the DNA complementarity code.

They were even able to use DNA tethers on selected vertices to link octahedrons end to end, forming chains, and in 2D arrays, forming sheets.

The scientists then used these ropelike girders to form the frame of three - dimensional octahedrons, «stapling» the linear DNA chains together with hundreds of short complementary DNA strands.

Scientists built octahedrons using ropelike structures made of bundles of DNA double - helix molecules to form the frames (a).

It was perhaps his early experiences there that gave him, in the early 1960s, the confidence to hand over the paper and cardboard maquettes, that were the result of his complex mathematical calculations — his studies of the construction of crystals, and of how octahedrons and tetrahedrons fitted together — to skilled crews of metalworkers, whom he would direct to construct his mammoth sculptures.

The result: One gold nanoparticle attached to each of octahedron's six vertices.

Using single - stranded cohesion, he guided these branched DNA molecules into stick polyhedra, such as a cube and a truncated octahedron.

Cut your fabric into manageable bits — circles, squares, octahedrons — whatever!

There are only five such shapes in the three - dimensional world; the other three are the octahedron (eight triangular sides), icosahedron (20 triangles), and dodecahedron (12 pentagons).

You can visualize it as half an icosahedron that is folded into an octahedron with some missing outer faces, plus some extra internally coinciding and interpenetrating extra faces.

If you do that to a cube, you get an octahedron.

An octahedron displayed on your office desk is a guaranteed conversation starter.

The set comes with detailed instructions for building three basic structures — a tetrahedron, an octahedron, and an icosahedron.

In the X position, anions form an octahedron, while in the A position cations form a cube around them, while a central cation takes the B position.

The Brookhaven team used nanosized building blocks — cubes or octahedrons — decorated with DNA tethers to coordinate the assembly of spherical nanoparticles coated with complementary DNA strands.

To create the nano cages, researchers start with a nanoscale cube or octahedron of less expensive palladium, then deposit a few layers of platinum atoms on top of it.

The six nitrogen atoms are at the corners of an octahedron around the Fe atom.

In one experiment, they encoded the same sequence on all the octahedron's tethers, and attached strands with a complementary sequence to gold nanoparticles.

Thus the specifically DNA - encoded particles can find their correspondingly designed place on the octahedron vertices» Gang said.

The hovering guests include five regular, convex polyhedrons comprised of identically sided, congruent faces: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron.

The apparatus transforms a tetrahedron, a cube, and a octahedron into a dodecahedron and back in an endless loop.

«The outcome is a Regular Polyhedron — a «Truncated Cubic - octahedron» — transformed into a inhabitable space; a self - standing volume with one of his faces opened to the surroundings, and little windows on the sides and at the top that supply day light and optimal air circulation conditions.»