Sentences with phrase «of a meter in size»

A team of researchers, led by Sangeeta Bhatia, an associate professor at HST and in M.I.T.'s department of electrical engineering and computer science, report in Advanced Materials that they have developed and tested injectable multifunctional nanoparticles — particles billionths of a meter in size — that they expect to become a new, potent weapon against cancer.
Phytoplankton — single - celled, water - dwelling algae — are one - millionth of a meter in size and produce about half the oxygen we breathe.
Ground to teensy particles measuring just tens of billionths of a meter in size
Manufacturers have already started adding nano - size chemicals — specks of matter one billionth of a meter in size — to products such as cosmetics.
Because the waves have very small wavelengths — billionths of a meter in size — scientists can use them for ultraprecise measurements of acceleration.
Metallic alloy nanoparticles — particles ranging from about a billionth to 100 billionths of a meter in size — are a critical ingredient in such processes.
Its capacity to store many bits in a single cell of a billionth of a meter in size (multi-level memory) also is highly attractive.
These nanoparticles, which measure billionths of a meter in size, can revolutionize fields from electronics to energy supply, but scientists must first determine how best to produce them.
Mircea Podar of ORNL's Biosciences Division led a team that isolated the archaeon Nanopusillus acidilobi, cultured these tiny microbes — just 100 to 300 billionths of a meter in size — and can now study how they interact with their host, another archaeon (Acidilobus).
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