Sentences with phrase «of tiny pores»

This process removes the oxygen and activates it with gases leaving behind a highly adsorbent material with millions of tiny pores.

The fluids react with relatively acidic seawater to produce mineral structures full of tiny pores, where hydrogen and carbon dioxide come together to form simple molecules.

Simulations (colored images) of this process showed the formation of tiny pores, which was in agreement with the structure (grayscale image) observed in a scanning electron microscope.

It's not just the size of pores that matters, but the surface structure and surface chemistry, since natural gas interacts with the outer edges of each tiny pore in the rock.

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Microfiber holds liquid in tiny pores inside the fibers of the fabric.

The final product, a black carbon powder, has a very high surface area due to the presence of many tiny pores that have been chemically etched on the surface of the microspheres.

«The pores allow the MOFs to work like tiny sponges that can soak up chemicals such as pharmaceuticals and gases,» said Sanghamitra Deb, a postdoctoral researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the U. of I.

As DNA passes through a tiny opening in the pore — an opening that is just 0.00000012 centimeters wide, or 1/10, 000 th the width of a human hair — the current shifts based on the sequence of DNA letters.

But some of it also enters the stomata, or tiny pores, on the leaves and is drawn down through the branches to the roots.

The body consists of three vaselike openings, the walls perforated by tiny pores — just like modern sponges, which pump water through the holes to filter out food.

The temperature increase triggered a chemical transformation within the sediment, pushing water out of the mineral crystals and into tiny pores between the grains.

When they added a few small drops of sunflower oil to the powder samples, they observed the liquid fat moving through pores and tiny spaces in the chocolate very quickly, most likely as a result of capillary action — the movement of a liquid within porous material due to the forces of adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension.

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that they can continuously read the chemical letters of DNA as it travels through a tiny pore, paving the way for a new kind of sequencing machine that decodes DNA much like an announcer reading a ticker tape.

«The hollow pores of the CNTs are extremely, extremely tiny,» Ali said.

«This new ion - assisted manipulation of matter on the tiniest of length scales completely changed the behaviour of the aluminium oxide: when we applied moderate exposure to helium ions, its pores shrank, when we increased exposure to the ions this normally brittle and porous ceramic turned into a superplastic and gained the ability to stretch more than twice without breaking.»

According to a report in this week's issue of Current Biology, tiny pores in the outer membranes of two species of bacteria secrete a stream of slime that propels them forward.

These new nanoparticles are equipped with specially designed nanovalves that can control release of anticancer drugs from thousands of pores, or tiny tubes, which hold molecules of chemotherapy drugs within them.

Typically, the pores of sweat glands lie along the tiny ridges that make up our fingerprints.

Anyone awed by towering redwoods should offer thanks to stomata, the tiny pores on the leaves of all trees and other vascular plants.

One group of cells had a planar interface between perovskite and ETL, whereas in the other one a mesoporous interface was built up, intermingling perovskite and metal oxide to form a sponge like structure that contains a huge number of extremely tiny pores.

By invigorating the mitochondria, SIRT3 and SIRT4 extend the life of cells, by preventing flagging mitochondria from developing tiny holes (or pores) in their membranes that allow proteins that trigger apoptosis, or cell death, to seep out into the rest of the cell.

Like a type of door, sodium channels allow sodium ions to flow into nerve cells through tiny pores.

They used pieces of grocery plastic bags which were vaporized in a furnace to produce carbon layers that line the pores in the membrane to make the tiny cylinders (the carbon nanotubes).

Now researchers have a more reliable way of fingerprinting with less of a print: By mapping the tiny sweat pores on a person's finger.

How can long DNA filaments, which have convoluted and highly knotted structure, manage to pass through the tiny pores of biological systems?

You see, plants have these tiny pores on the undersides of their leaves called stomata.

Kodandaramaiah, Boyden and Forest set out to automate a 30 - year - old technique known as whole - cell patch clamping, which involves bringing a tiny hollow glass pipette in contact with the cell membrane of a neuron, then opening up a small pore in the membrane to record the electrical activity within the cell.

When rainwater is introduced to this kind of rock, either seeping in through tiny pores in the rock surface, or, more typically, dribbling in through larger cracks, the rock will begin to dissolve.

Oral had to contend with the drug's tendency to form itself into tiny spheres — a shape that causes gaps and pores that weaken structural integrity of the polymer.

The existing technique, which uses micro - or nano - pores to detect and separate particles, can only detect tiny volumes of material at a time in a single channel, limiting...» More...

Most importantly for the generation of steam, the foam is also riddled with tiny pores that allow water — through capillary action from applied heat — to make its way up through the material.

Antioxidants, bioflavonoids and vitamins hyper - oxygenate skin (think thousands of tiny bubbles diving deep into pores).

Oh, and a teeny tiny bit of shea butter makes a PHENOMENAL facial moisturizer — you wouldn't think it, but it doesn't clog pores!

Homogenization: This is the process whereby the fat particles of cream are strained through tiny pores under great pressure.

If your answer is your pores then it's safe to assume that you're not happy with the size of them (unless of course you have tiny, perfect pores, then congratulations).

This moisturizer from Philosophy makes fighting acne and banishing excess dead skin as easy as slathering on a bit of cream — tiny pores guaranteed.

The tiny beads make it double as an exfoliator when you rinse it off, and it also does a great job of cleansing the pores.

«Nothing makes me happier than to watch a pupil pore over a tray full of tiny pond creatures and mutter to himself «this is just the best day ever».

Health authorities, such as AIDS.gov and the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare, recommend non-microwavable Saran Wrap, because microwave - safe Saran Wrap has tiny pores to let out steam — which might also let viruses and bacteria through.