Sentences with phrase «only nanometre»

Some of the potential applications of nanotechnology, for example in catalysis and aerospace, may subject particles of only nanometre dimensions to very high temperatures.

The research is important to the engineering sector for some potential applications of nanotechnology, for example in catalysis and aerospace, where particles of only nanometre dimensions are subjected to very high temperatures.

Not exact matches

The design consists of only four alternate layers of zirconium oxide and silicon dioxide and the whole stack is less than 300 nanometres thick.

For now, such technology can cloak only objects with a surface area of a few square micrometres and a few hundred nanometres deep.

«We don't even have to use entire trees; nanocellulose is only 200 nanometres long.

Only a few nanometre - sized γ platelets can be seen in the γ» precipitates.

This resulted in formation of a conductive and stable polymeric layer only three to four nanometres thick.

«A stable model is so important because the detailed structure of this wall is still not clear, largely because bacteria are very small and have a protective envelope that is only 20 nanometres thick.

The effect, however, turns out to work only in LEDs which use nanometre - thick active regions — quantum wells.

In the current work, Blamire and his collaborators used a multi-layered stack of metal films in which each layer was only a few nanometres thick.

With the methods used, it is now possible to study not only ore particles on the ocean floor in the range of millimetre to nanometre, but also the smallest fossils and living organisms, such as micro-organisms.

Quantum dots are tiny structures, measuring no more than a few nanometres across, which due to quantum confinement can only assume certain, discrete states comparable to the energy level of a single atom.

X-rays have very short wavelengths of only about 1 to 0.01 nanometres (nm), compared to 400 to 800 nm for visible light.

«Each of the two arms of a dynein motor protein is about 25 nanometres (0.000025 millimetre) long, while the binding sites it attaches to are only 8 nanometres apart.

Cree Research, a small company in Durham, North Carolina, uses silicon carbide in LEDs which emit at 470 nanometres in the blue region of the visible spectrum, but each chip generates only a modest 12 millicandelas.

The pillars are only a few tens of nanometres apart, which lets the team cram tens of thousands of spots of colour across every centimetre of the surface.

Tosi said the design sidesteps a challenge that all spin - based silicon qubits were expected to face as teams begin building larger and larger arrays of qubits: the need to space them at a distance of only 10 - 20 nanometres, or just 50 atoms apart.

These kinds of observations can not be easily made under a microscope, of course, but require instead an indirect, statistical approach: «Using small - angle X-ray scattering at BESSY II, we were not only able to ascertain that the nanoparticles are all around five nanometres in diameter, but also measure what the separations between them are.

The states of energy available to electrons and holes change appreciably, and can only have certain discrete or «quantised» levels when they are confined within silicon structures less than 5 nanometres wide.

However, by squeezing light into a channel only 25 nanometres (25 billionths of a metre) wide, the Imperial team increased its intensity.

As the depression is only some 50 nanometres deep, and the eisosomes are a maximum of 150 by 100 nanometres in dimension, this required an extremely high resolution.

The 3D NanoChemiscope, which was developed at Empa, not only maps samples with nanometre precision, but for the first time can also provide precise information about which chemical elements are arranged where in a sample.

Because the current depends very sensitively on this distance, by scanning the tip over the sample surface it is possible to obtain an image of the surface with a resolution of only a few nanometres.

We aim to push its limits on all fronts to establish a technique which combines nanometre 3D resolution with maximum labelling efficiencies, absolute measurements of protein copy numbers, precise multi-colour measurements, high - throughput for large scale statistics and novel data analysis approaches, to address the vast array of exciting biological questions at the nanoscale, which are becoming accessible only now.

With length of several micrometres the wires can exceed the length of the cells by far, but their diameter is only a few nanometres.

In the Alubeam paint production process, the particles are much finer and have a diameter of only 30 to 50 nanometres, which means that particles are integrated more evenly into the paint surface.

The key to their method are tiny metallic particles of only about one - quarter of a nanometre in size or less than the size of ten atoms.