Sentences with phrase «only nanometers»

Since the high pressure produced by the laser only lasts a split second, the resulting diamonds are extremely small — only nanometers in size.

Because «blinking» is precisely tunable, molecules that are only nanometers apart from each other can be distinguished — at the higher resolution end of super-resolution.

The silks get their strength from thin crystal proteins only nanometers wide, which are stacked together like pancakes.

By formulating their product with bits of carnauba (palm - tree wax) that are only nanometers wide, automotive cosmetics maker Eagle One says it's able to make a coating that always goes on clear.

«It can span two dimensions of the material,» even though it is only nanometers thick.

«In the case of these materials, the additive is tiny flakes of a clay that are only a nanometer (one millionth of a millimeter) thick,» says Alan I. Taub, executive director of science for GM Research and Development.

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Its economic development unit, Empire State Development, has established a long - term, multibillion - dollar game plan to attract nanotechnology manufacturers to make not only solar panels but also semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and other products from very small materials (there are 25,400,000 nanometers in an inch).

Quantum dots are semiconductor particles only a few nanometers wide — small enough that they behave like individual atoms.

The viral titan is about 750 nanometers across with a genetic pantry boasting around 1.2 million base pairs of DNA, the information - toting bits often represented with A, T, C and G. Influenza A, for example, is roughly 100 nanometers across with only about 13,500 base pairs of genetic material.

This high - tech kit allows you to construct tiny objects only 100 nanometers in size!

Because the beads are only about 100 nanometers across, slightly smaller than a wavelength of visible light, the collection diffracts light, making the gel shimmer with an iridescent glow.

The breakthrough discovery is the synthesis of one - dimensional, carbon nanothreads with diamond - like bonding only 0.6 nanometers in diameter.

In order for lateral confinement to be produced, the cross section of the structure must be much smaller than the «mean free path» of a phonon, or only a few to hundreds of nanometers depending on the material, Wang said.

Unlike traditional solar absorbers, this absorber requires very little material and consists of only two layers: a semiconductor film and a reflective metallic layer, with a total thickness of 170 nanometers.

The researchers used the state - of - the - art nanofabrication technology to make arrays of electrodes with a width of only 100 nanometers (0.00001 centimeters) to excite sound waves at an unprecedented high frequency that is higher than 10 GHz, the frequency used for satellite communications.

It includes everything from huge boulders to particles only a few nanometers in diameter, but most of it is a puree created by uncountable high - speed micrometeorites that have been crashing into the moon unimpeded by atmosphere for more than 3billion years.

And instead of using conventional silicon wafers for transistors and diodes, they used silicon layers only 50 nanometers thick, enabling the components to dissolve in a couple of weeks.

It measures only 5.6 nanometers square and represents the largest number of atomic manipulations ever achieved at room temperature.

A strand of DNA is only about one nanometer in size — not even close to the width of a human hair which is roughly equivalent to 100,000 DNA strands.

However, ions can only penetrate the polymers a couple of nanometers deep, leaving much of the material as dead weight.

Microtubules, hollow fibers of tubulin protein only a few nanometers in diameter, form the cytoskeletons of living cells and play a crucial role in cell division (mitosis) through their ability to undergo rapid growth and shrinkage, a property called «dynamic instability.»

And because they are only 2 to 8 nanometers in diameter, they are easy for the kidneys to clear from the body before they block up blood vessels, a long - standing problem in nanoparticle therapy.

Although the coating looks smooth to the naked eye, it actually contains 10 to 20 layers of particles, each only seven nanometers in diameter, with air pockets between the particles.

Quantum dots are extremely small semiconductor particles only a few nanometers in size.

The framework construction made of a ceramic - polymer composite is highly stable, although the individual elements have a thickness of a few hundred nanometers only.

QuantumFilm's dots are only a few nanometers in diameter, about the thickness of a biological cell membrane.

«The copper coating on the polymer separator is only 50 nanometers thick, about 500 times thinner than the separator itself,» said Wu, a postdoctoral fellow in the Cui group.

The core nanoparticle, only 13 nanometers in diameter, enters cells, and the NanoFlare seeks its target.

One particle is only 500 nanometers in size, which is 150 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

The vibrating nanoscale drumheads developed by Feng and his team are made of atomic layers of semiconductor crystals (single -, bi -, tri -, and four - layer MoS2 flakes, with thickness of 0.7, 1.4, 2.1, and 2.8 nanometers), with diameters only about 1 micron.

Because they're stable, only a few nanometers in size, and need just small electric currents to transport them, skyrmions hold potential as the basis for ultra-compact and energy - efficient information storage and processing devices in the future.

The membranes of the cells in our bodies are only approximately 4 to 5 nanometers thick and consist of a complex mixture of lipids and specific membrane proteins, which also include channel proteins.

That meant the engineers had to devise cloaking components only tens of nanometers apart.

The diameter of the channels in the zeolites is only 1 nanometer, just a little wider than the molecule's diameter.

«In our paper, we studied only polystyrene structure and what happens to this structure at glass transition when you go to very thin, nanometer - thick films,» Lyulin said.

They have working microprocessors with «wires» that are only 90 nanometers across.

In May, researchers at Hewlett - Packard (HP) unveiled their long - anticipated «memristor,» [subscription required] a device only a few nanometers wide that could revolutionize computer memory and help researchers build a machine that functions like a human brain.

Individually, these motors only operate over distances in the region of a nanometer.

A mirror reflecting only 1,064 - nanometer - wavelength light directs it into an experimental solar panel.

The tiny vehicle measures only about 30 nanometers (millionths of a millimeter).

Although SIM and other superresolution techniques are pushing to spatial resolutions as high as 20 nanometers, they do not have the field of view of a technique like Bessel beam microscopy; they can only see a very small area, and imaging a larger area with those techniques takes a long time.

A nanometer is one billionth of a meter and visible only with the aid of a high - power electron microscope.

The scientists beamed light flashes lasting only a few hundred attoseconds onto 50 nanometer thick glass particles, which released electrons inside the material.

But the image resolution of the tiny molecule and its products — each only about one nanometer across — wasn't good enough to reliably identify the molecular structures.

The latest generation of transistors will have structural features with dimensions of only 10 nanometers.

In the nanocrystals, which range from two to 150 nanometers wide, only two electrons per crystal may hop between energy rungs.

When working with nano structures such as atoms, which measure only 0.3 nanometers, three electrodes would inevitably cause a short - circuit.

Focusing the machine's full output into a spot of only 100 nanometers in size, the team generated an X-ray beam with intensity equivalent to all of the sun's radiation that is striking Earth's surface but concentrated in an area with the diameter of a human hair.

Not only can this technique detect magnetic fields with nanometer accuracy, it can determine their force as well, opening up an extraordinary range of applications.

«The metal colloids are only a few nanometers in size, but their particular ratio of size to surface area produces a distinctive long - term effect.