Sentences with phrase «of microscale»

«Optomechanics is an area of research in which extremely minute forces exerted by light (for example: radiation pressure, gradient force, electrostriction) are used to generate and control high - frequency mechanical vibrations of microscale and nanoscale devices,» explained Gaurav Bahl, an assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois.

Researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have shown that early fatigue damage behavior in structures may be predicted through the study of the microscale mechanical behavior of the material.

Microfabricated silicon needle - electrode devices were expected to be an innovation that would be able to record and analyze the electrical activities of the microscale neuronal circuits in the brain.

The researchers — from Seoul National University, Act Company and Minuta Technology — used an array of microscale prisms placed on a screen to create a filter that guides the light in one direction or another.

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The microfluidic technology, developed in the lab of professor Mark Hayes in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State University, uses microscale electric field gradients, acting on extremely small samples, to tell the difference between the two strains (antibiotic - resistant and antibiotic - susceptible) of Staphylococcus epidermidis.

In November 2010 Japanese researchers announced online in Analytical Chemistry that they had built a chip that simultaneously tests how liver, intestine and breast cancer cells respond to cancer drugs, and in February 2010 scientists publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA developed a microscale replica of the human liver that allowed them to observe the entire life cycle of hepatitis C, a virus that is difficult to observe in cultured cells.

It became commonplace to include a combination of mesoscale and microscale models into the European Wind Atlas.

Although such measurements have been performed in much larger scale systems, the latest results were achieved within a micrometer - sized waveguide — a thin wire that guides light — and demonstrated the use of optical torque to induce rotational motion in a microscale mechanical device.

«Tiny glow sticks: Microrods made of lanthanoid organic frameworks act as microscale optical waveguides.»

«Each small eye, composed of a microlens and a microscale photodetector, is a separate imaging system, but when they are all taken together, the camera can take a clear picture, with just one snap, of nearly 180 degrees.

The gels can also be imprinted with patterns such as the microscale architecture found on the surface of lotus leaves, which allows them to repel water.

This approach enables swift and sensitive detection of this critical biomolecule at microscale concentration levels.

Instead of building a model describing the microscale movement of individuals and confronting it with experimental data, the authors built a model of swarm behaviour that is consistent with experimental observations, in terms of swarm density, of individual midges» speed and acceleration.

The vision of the centre is to become a world - leading facility for the characterisation and analysis of molecular materials at the nano and microscale.

It also has the ability to measure minuscule features and inconsistencies of surfaces with microscale resolution.

Rather, certain areas — locations where there were likely microscale cracks and other surface defects — would experience intense local corrosion resulting in the sudden appearance of pits.

While Kotov says the first living organisms were likely microscale, he's quick to point out that the work doesn't say nanoparticle ribbons of any sort are precursors to life.

The researchers also demonstrated microscale MRI images in a micro-reactor using parahydrogen, a state of the hydrogen molecule in which the nuclei are aligned in opposite directions.

Synthetic molecular machines and their microscale counterparts are currently a research area of intense activity.

Inspired by natural cellular structures, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, and MIT have developed a new method to 3D print materials with independently tunable macro-and microscale porosity using a ceramic foam ink.

«With the new 3 - D printing method, the Solider can take advantage of the unique actuation properties of soft DEAs at the fundamental materials level with microscale resolution and complexity, with minimal prior expertise.»

The «microscale magnetic tumbling robot,» or μTUM (microTUM), is about 400 by 800 microns, or millionths of a meter, smaller than the head of a pin.

«We expect a more general application of our model and we will develop our model further, in the next steps, to apply them to microscale systems,» Fang said.

In addition, their pyroelectric properties could be used to engineer microscale and nanoscale thermometers that sense temperature variation, rather than the absolute temperature of a cell.

Berkeley researchers isolated circulating tumor cells from the blood of breast cancer patients, then used microscale physics to design a precision test for protein biomarkers, which are indicators of cancer.

These microscale machines could become a powerful platform for robotics at the size scale of biological microorganisms.

Creating organ models on a microscale has been greatly facilitated by microfluidics, a technology developed in the 1990s that uses micropumps, valves and finely etched channels to manipulate the movement of fluids through a chip.

XPhoton - assisted synthesis and processing of materials in nano - microscale (MATERIAL PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATION)

Also speaking at the event are Dr. Ken Lacovara (Insights from the biggest dinosaur skeleton ever found), Dr. Roy Hamilton (Enhancing human mental performance with noninvasive brain stimulation), Dr. George Brainard (Better lighting for better sleep in space), Denise Wong (Tiny bio-robots for microscale medicine and engineering), Dr. Melinda Keefe (The chemistry of art conservation), and Dr. Michel Barsoum (Molding conductive «clay» into the next generation of batteries)

And, they claim, these microscale machines — equipped with electronic, photonic and chemical payloads — could become a powerful platform for robotics at the size scale of biological microorganisms.

There, I performed the spectroscopic analysis of the in silico predicted protein - ligand pairs of endocrine disruptors and breast cancer proteins using circular dichroism, native mass spectrometry and microscale thermophoresis.

Abolhasani, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, specializes in microscale technologies that address the world's energy challenges.

«This study is remarkable in that it links microscale remodeling of dendritic spine architecture to behavioral performance in adult mice, outside of the developmentally relevant critical period.

The study is significant as it binds together structural correlates of plasticity at the microscale with effects on behavioral performance.

Brains that have been voxelated into ~ 700 cubes will be prepared using automated microscale sample processing and analyzed using high - throughput reversed - phase liquid chromatography coupled online with high - resolution mass spectrometry to obtain both the spatial localization and relative abundance of brain proteins.

Nevertheless, both parties agree that eventually the microscale and macroscale approaches will converge as one enormous data set, hopefully with the different layers of complexity informing each other.

«Expanding this methodology to non-biological crystalline materials will result in microscale architectures with enhanced photonic, electronic, and catalytic properties,» said Tanya Shirman, a postdoctoral fellow at SEAS and Technology Development Fellow at Wyss Institute and co-author of the research.

The schemes for mechanical testing of nano - and microscale samples were suggested and calibrated.

Magically, if I actually lay in bed at the end of the day, close my eyes, and mentally add up calories, I come very close to my target 2700 - 3000 on easy days and 3000 - 3300 on hard days — but this is all accomplished by simply following my hunger and intuition, and not by counting calories or hovering over a microscale in the kitchen as I make my smoothie.

Wave section creation has microscale factors of peel angle and wave breaking intensity.

Scientists now recognize that macroscale behaviors, such as plate tectonics and mantle convection, arise from the microscale properties of Earth materials, including the smallest details of their atomic structures.

The site location is representative of the climate of the region, and is not heavily influenced by unique local topographic and mesoscale / microscale features / factors.

It was developed using microscale modelling to capture small scale wind variability, allowing for better estimates of the aggregated wind resources.

He is expert in application of the mesoscale modelling output (numerical wind atlas data) in microscale models (including WAsP) for site specific verification and feasibility studies.

The large - scale climate, for instance, determines the environment for microscale (1 km or less) and mesoscale (from several kilometers to several hundred kilometers) processes that govern weather and local climate, and these small - scale processes likely have significant impacts on the evolution of the large - scale circulation.»

Fluid mixing and dissipation occur at microscales of 10 − 3 m and 10 − 3 s, and cloud particulate transformations happen at 10 − 6 m or smaller.

Expert communities exhibit increased conflict on a microscale and relatively smaller bias on a macroscale, even in the absence of quality control mechanisms.