Sentences with phrase «oil droplets by»

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«New innovative method for delivering genes into cells: Modification of cell physiological function with novel parallelized electroporation of mammalian cells by using electrostatic manipulation in a water - in - oil droplet.»

Scientists are keeping a close watch on variables that might affect life in the open ocean, including depleted oxygen levels caused by a feeding frenzy from oil - and gas - eating microbes, and the unknown effects of dispersants, which break the oil into droplets but may keep it suspended in the water.

And, unfortunately, the microbes» speed is limited not by the availability of oil — or even its droplet size, which is why chemical dispersants have been used to break up the oil into microbe - friendly globules — but by the availability of various nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus that wash into the ocean via rivers carrying sediments from the continents.

Or take the Greek alcohol ouzo — it turns cloudy white when you add water, because it's an emulsion of tiny droplets of oil (the alcohol) destabilized by the water molecules.

The fertiliser lodges in the surface of the oil droplets created by the detergents, he says — right where the bacteria can use them.

He envisions that arrays of the needles could be submerged several meters underwater to collect oil droplets, which could then be sucked up by a tanker.

Scientists have discovered a completely new type of opal formed by a common seaweed which harnesses natural technology by self - assembling a nanostructure of oil droplets to control how light reflects from its cells to display a shimmering array of colors...

The motors developed by researchers of the ICN2 Bioelectronics and Biosensors Group, led by ICREA Prof. Arben Merkoçi, have been used in test conditions to remove oil droplets from water.

The boundaries are formed instead by a liquid - liquid phase separation, a bit like droplets of oil floating in salad dressing.

They found that heterochromatic droplets fused together just like two drops of oil surrounded by water.

(PhysOrg.com)-- By rapidly manipulating colored oil droplets stacked on top of each other, a new electrowetting (EW) technique could lead to the development of electronic paper displays that can produce high - resolution color video.

Mapping the long - term effects of the nearly 2 million gallons of dispersant used by BP PLC may well be equally difficult, given the array of unanswered questions that surround the products» rapid breakdown of oil droplets and their chronic toxicity.

The second study, published April 25, 2018, in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, shows that chemical alteration of oil by sunlight significantly lowers the performance of chemical dispersants, a response tool that helps break up oil into droplets and lessen the amount of oil that reaches coastal ecosystems.