Sentences with phrase «of micrometre»

The result, the team reports: a large number of micrometre - sized flakes of graphene, suspended in the water.

All of the outputs of the ion pump can also be rapidly switched on or off with the aid of micrometre - sized ion diodes.

By means of standing X-ray wave fields, they were able to scan both graphene and substrate at a precision of a few millionths of a micrometre — less than a tenth of the radius of an atom.

«The light elements that makes up these «molecular tadpoles» are easily located by neutrons» says Dr Isabelle Grillo, at the ILL. «Moreover, small angle neutron scattering which we use at the ILL allows to characterise the self - assembled systems from the nanometre scale to tenth of micrometres and is perfectly adapted to observe the coming together of the C60 footballs» into these beautiful core structures.»

Although the resolution of optical microscopy is limited to fractions of micrometres, developments in near - field microscopy had pushed this limit to a few tens of nanometres.

Not exact matches

Most of this plastic disintegrates into particles smaller than five millimetres, referred to as microplastics, and breaks down further into nanoparticles, which are less than 0.1 micrometre in size.

Unyong Jeong's team at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, covered a flexible rubber film with a sheet of corrugated microporous polystyrene, with gutters around 3 micrometres wide and 1 micrometre deep.

Lars Peter Nielsen and his colleagues at Aarhus University in Denmark have found that tens of thousands of electric bacteria can join together to form daisy chains that carry electrons over several centimetres — a huge distance for a bacterium only 3 or 4 micrometres long.

It is enough, for instance, that the stimulus that provides the sensation of touch is moved some ten micrometres across the skin in order for the neural patterns to be completely different,» says Henrik Jörntell.

The Casimir effect is a force that tries to push together conducting plates held within a few micrometres of each other.

Made entirely of light, the channel was 200 micrometres long and 20 wide at its widest point.

The particles found measure just five micrometres or less; approximately 20 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

For now, such technology can cloak only objects with a surface area of a few square micrometres and a few hundred nanometres deep.

Due to their extreme thinness of under one micrometre, the electrodes can be adapted perfectly to the uneven human skin, and can even be applied to parts of the body where traditional electrodes are not suitable, for instance the face.

Inside these specks, which measured just 5 to 25 micrometres across, they found trapped pockets of water (PNAS, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1320115111).

The size of skin squames is generally larger than 10 micrometres (or 0.001 centimetres).

This could be measured at a wavelength of 4.5 micrometres with James Webb's NIRSpec instrument.

Sulphur pearl of Namibia (Thiomargarita namibiensis) Length: 750 micrometres From the biggest of the biggest, we go to the biggest of the smallest.

But later analysis showed that these signals were caused by spheres of ice between 18 and 80 micrometres across.

The team observed that when the colloidal particles are micrometre - sized, the force and speed of impact change how the shocks are absorbed.

At DESY, the researchers successfully created an image of a hexagonal, micrometre sized structure in the shape of a benzene ring.

X-rays generated at that facility enable scientists to study and characterize the structure of edible fats at meso and micro levels (hundreds of nanometres to a few micrometres in size).

The scaffold is built out of a series of thin layers, stamped with a pattern of channels that are each about 50 to 100 micrometres wide.

«A regular paper network has fibres 30 micrometres in diameter, here we are at a scale three orders of magnitude smaller,» says Berglund.

SAM has been processing scoops of fine sand, with grains less than 150 micrometres across.

The bulbs are bulky, wear out and only work up to wavelengths of 4.5 micrometres.

For example, the researchers stacked thousands of drops to form micro-pillars with a height of 2 millimetres and a diameter of 5 micrometres.

Ions from the water attached themselves to the cultivator blade, forming a layer a few micrometres thick, and a current of between 0.2 and 2.6 amps passed through the soil.

But one of the most common bacteria doesn't have a flagellum, yet it can still swim at a perfectly respectable 25 micrometres per second.

Opening and closing a lid on the beaker generated pulses of CO2 that changed the growth rate and made the stems spread into iris - like blossoms, each just 25 micrometres across.

Their printer is capable of producing features just 40 micrometres wide, and thin films just 16 micrometres thick.

The scaffold is made from a polymer sheet and zapped with a laser to form a honeycomb structure of individual pores, each shaped like a concertina roughly 500 micrometres long.

The microfilm is made by depositing 3 to 7 micrometres of the solid liquid crystal on a sheet of PET, the transparent plastic from which some fizzy drink bottles are made, which acts as a support.

Each hair is about 200 micrometre across, full of pores 15 to 20 micrometres wide.

The final lens cut from these deposits was 40 micrometres (millionths of a metre) wide, 17.5 micrometres thick and 6.5 micrometres deep.

This false - colour image was created by selecting and combining the best images obtained from many short VISIR exposures at a wavelength of 5 micrometres.

The occlusion body (the virus «cocoon») has a volume of around 0.01 cubic micrometres, about one hundred times smaller than the smallest artificially grown protein crystals that have until now been analysed using crystallographic techniques.

Rollins's group piped millisecond - long pulses of infrared laser light with a wavelength of 1.87 micrometres through...

Average concentrations of particles under 2.5 micrometres were between 11 and 30 micrograms per cubic metre.

They found that HD 98800, which is an orange star, emits 10 per cent of its radiation in the far - infrared — at wavelengths between 10 and 100 micrometres.

Particulate matter — Soot or smoke made up of particles in the micrometre size range: Particulate matter causes negative health effects, including but not limited to respiratory disease and cancer.

In the semiconductor industry, photolithography machinery used to etch chip substrates must be focused to an accuracy of a few micrometres.

Careful analysis of the polarisation results revealed these grains of dust to be comparatively large particles, 0.5 micrometres across, which may seem small, but grains of this size are about 50 times larger than the dust normally found in interstellar space.

It senses the weak van der Waals forces between the tip of a cylindrical silicon probe — just 0.1 micrometres across — and atoms on the surface of the chip.

His team has created a robot hand that is simply a rubber bag filled to about 80 per cent of its volume with glass spheres, each 100 micrometres in diameter.

The narrow and high - intensity PETRA III X-ray beam could precisely scan the sample surface, which measured approximately 2x2 square millimetres, with a resolution of half a micrometre.

Although traffic actually increased in the first week of the ban, the levels of PM2.5 — particulate matter measuring less than 2.5 micrometres across — fell by roughly 10 %.

In their tiny mimic, Clemens Bechinger and Valentin Blickle at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, replaced the cylinder with a laser that confines the motion of a 3 - micrometre - wide lump of melamine in water.

They can penetrate a depth of 50 cell layers or more — which is about 200 micrometres, twice the width of a human hair.

Instead of being a dot of dye or light, a nanopixel is made of a hole less than a micrometre across in a thin sheet of aluminium.