Sentences with phrase «scale mechanical structure»

To use this motion - sensing technique in a practical device, Aksyuk and Roxworthy embedded the gold nanoparticle in a microscopic - scale mechanical structure — a vibrating cantilever, sort of a miniature diving board — that was a few micrometers long, made of silicon nitride.

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The lead author, BYU mechanical engineering PhD student Zhao Pan, took the first sets of data and hypothesized that the moss was indeed using the unique nano, micro and barb - like structures to collect and transport water at various scales.

To this end, we design new multi-scale quantitative methods that can resolve the local dynamics of soluble proteins, dissect the architecture of cellular structures, and characterize the mechanical properties and dynamics at large scales.