Sentences with phrase «oil droplets in»

Protocells made from oil droplets in water allow soluble chemicals to be exchanged between the drops and their surrounding solution.
FUS proteins can change back and forth from small liquid droplets (resembling oil droplets in water) to small gels (like jelly) inside nerve cells.
No magic ingredients needed, and we can go freely from oil droplets in water and vice versa.
The oil droplets in the hydrothermal fluids initiated the efficient chemical precipitation of native gold and the formation of very complex - structured gold and uranium ore.»
His most recent is a cylindrical «submarine,» about the size of a red blood cell and made of gold, nickel, platinum, and a polymer, that can collect oil droplets in water.
Due to the consistency and size of the microparticles, SIMPLESSE behaves similarly to emulsified oil droplets in terms of mouthfeel and light scattering.
An oil droplet in water forms a sphere.

Not exact matches

What's left are more like ponds, or puddles, or even droplets clustered in solid rock, and the capital cost and time frame to extract oil from them have soared.
Heat approximately 1/2 a cup of oil in a large skillet until it spits when a water droplet is flicked at it.
As at the time, the company, which was barely a year old and had no history of producing a droplet of oil, was awarded controlling stakes in two lucrative oil blocks — OML 30 and 34 — for just over $ 50 million each.
If there is enough surfactant, water would retain the shape of droplets in oil, and vice versa.
Once they are dispersed, the tiny droplets of oil are more likely to sink or remain suspended in deep water rather than floating to the surface and collecting in a continuous slick.
When sound hits a droplet of oil, the waves scatter in identifiable patterns.
The team found that frequencies near 200 kilohertz were best for tracking small oil droplets like those in the Deepwater Horizon spill.
The procedure, described in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, centers on making droplets, which are a mixture of two or more immiscible, or unmixable, liquids — in this case, oil, water, and alcohol.
In this method, when a liquid droplet suspended between a pair of electrodes in dielectric oil is exposed to a direct current (DC) electric field, the droplet moves between the pair of electrodes periodically and deforms under the intense DC electric field (Fig. 1In this method, when a liquid droplet suspended between a pair of electrodes in dielectric oil is exposed to a direct current (DC) electric field, the droplet moves between the pair of electrodes periodically and deforms under the intense DC electric field (Fig. 1in dielectric oil is exposed to a direct current (DC) electric field, the droplet moves between the pair of electrodes periodically and deforms under the intense DC electric field (Fig. 1).
«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
In 2005, chemical engineer William Ristenpart of the University of California, Davis, was studying the effects of electric charge on droplets of water suspended in oiIn 2005, chemical engineer William Ristenpart of the University of California, Davis, was studying the effects of electric charge on droplets of water suspended in oiin oil.
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.
In this platform, an aqueous or oil droplet containing gold nanoparticles and captured analytes is allowed to evaporate on a slippery substrate, leading to the formation of a highly compact nanoparticle aggregate for surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) detection.
With the assistance of co-authors Piero Gardinali of Florida International University and Ron Atlas of the University of Louisville, a suspension of small, insoluble oil droplets was evenly distributed in bottles, along with the more soluble oil fractions and chemical dispersant to mimic the conditions of the oil plume.
Smaller, dispersed droplets are less threatening for two reasons: they present more surface area to the water, so ocean bacteria can degrade the oil faster; plus, the small droplets are much slower to rise to the surface, keeping the oil at sea instead of in coastal wetlands and giving the bacteria more time to do their magic.
Others have designed lubricant - impregnated textured surfaces, covered in a thin film of oil that repels droplets.
In lab tests, Wang and colleagues proved the machines could move through water and pick up both olive oil and motor oil, transporting collections of droplets around.
After the dispersant is applied, the tiny droplets of oil follow the water currents in underwater plumes.
«But the oil droplets show up brilliantly in the photos as shiny points on a dark background.»
The fertiliser lodges in the surface of the oil droplets created by the detergents, he says — right where the bacteria can use them.
Using microscopic video recordings, the team showed that underwater oil droplets flowed continuously along the needles at a rate of 2 millimeters per second, similarly to the way water moves along cactus needles, the team reports online today in Nature Communications.
The new method involves isolating small sections of thousands of genes in tiny droplets of water suspended in an oil.
Researchers have found droplets of oil inside crab larvae in the Gulf of Mexico.
Water droplets, immersed in a continuous oil ferrofluid phase, experience a repulsive magnetophoretic force in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field.
It's as if these parts of the genome were made of oil and the rest of water; the water easily mixes but the oil remains in distinct droplets.
They then submerged them in a mixture of silicone oil and water that they blasted with ultrasonic sound waves to generate micrometer - sized oil droplets.
The efficiency of microbial degradation is decreased when oil is not dispersed in small droplets.
Waves also plays an important role in breaking the oil into droplets.
Once the droplets are in the oil emulsion, the rods interact with one another to form different kinds of aligned phases.
The researchers placed these liquid crystals into water droplets, which in turn were placed in oil, producing an emulsion.
Jasna Brujic and colleagues experimentally verified both of those claims using a three - dimensional microscope — which examines many horizontal layers of a sample and then stacks those images to create a 3 - D image — to analyze oil droplets tightly packed in water.
In our previous study we found that a high fat diet containing comparable amounts of soybean oil to what Americans are currently consuming caused mice to become obese, diabetic and insulin resistant and to have large lipid droplets and hepatocyte ballooning in their liverIn our previous study we found that a high fat diet containing comparable amounts of soybean oil to what Americans are currently consuming caused mice to become obese, diabetic and insulin resistant and to have large lipid droplets and hepatocyte ballooning in their liverin their livers.
Fixed cells were stained with Oil Red O, resulting in red staining of lipid droplets in the cells.
Oil droplets, outer, and inner segments were observed in cells expressing photoreceptor specific markers (Figure 7B and 7C).
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.
Inside the nucleus, they act like droplets of vinegar in oil, that is, whenever they get close together, they fuse and sink.
The boundaries are formed instead by a liquid - liquid phase separation, a bit like droplets of oil floating in salad dressing.
In the new study, she and her colleagues have now shown that FUS aggregation results from a liquid - liquid phase separation analogous to the gradual coalescence of oil droplets dispersed in an oil - water emulsioIn the new study, she and her colleagues have now shown that FUS aggregation results from a liquid - liquid phase separation analogous to the gradual coalescence of oil droplets dispersed in an oil - water emulsioin an oil - water emulsion.
Asprey says he uses a patented process to take purified water and mix in tiny droplets of «Bulletproof XCT Oil»: medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) derived from coconut oOil»: medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) derived from coconut oiloil.
An atomizer with essential oil of eucalyptus can also help sterilize the air, killing microorganisms traveling in air droplets.
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We use a small amount of emulsifier in FleaHex ® Household Spray to stabilize the oil and water droplets in the suspension.
We use a small amount of emulsifier in FleaHex ® Household Spray to stabilize the oil and water droplets in suspension.
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