Sentences with phrase «scale structure at»

These processes are influenced by the atomic - scale structure at their interface with water.

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Just the sheer scale of it is also challenging, because you've got ta lay out the carbon fiber in exactly the right way on a huge mold, and you've got ta cure that mold at temperature, and then it's... just really hard to make large carbon - fiber structures that can do all of those things and carry incredible loads.

Quantum physics governs the universe on incredibly small scales — including at the level of molecules inside chloroplasts, the structures inside plants where photosynthesis happens.

A quantum computer instead uses quantum bits — called qubits — which are atomic - scale structures that, through a phenomenon known as «superposition,» can be both zero and one at the same time.

«With man, thanks to the extraordinary agglutinative property of thought, she has at last been able to achieve, throughout an entire living group, a total synthesis of which the process is still clearly apparent, if we trouble to look, in the «scaled» structure of the modern human world.

Gontard explained the packaging is developed using composite structures based on constituents (biopolyesters, fibers, proteins, polyphenolic compounds, bioadhesives and high - performance bio-additives) derived from food industry (oil, dairy, cereal and beer) by - products and by applying processing strategies (blends and multilayers at different scales) to customize the packaging's properties.

In the time it took for me to say hi to my friend at the playground, my 2.5 year old scaled a steep hill and was halfway up a ladder to a climbing structure intended for kids three times his...

Studies were included if: (a) they were RCTs, (b) the population comprised parents / carers of children up to the age of 18 where at least 50 % had a conduct problem (defined using objective clinical criteria, the clinical cut - off point on a well validated behaviour scale or informal diagnostic criteria), (c) the intervention was a structured, repeatable (manualised) parenting programme (any theoretical basis, setting or mode of delivery) and (d) there was at least one standardised outcome measuring child behaviour.

Joint research between Tampere University of Technology (TUT)(Finland) and University of Tübingen (Germany) has shown that carefully structured light and matching arrangements of metal nanostructures (so - called «plasmonic oligomers») can be combined to alter the properties of the generated light at the nanometer scale.

Research scientist Matthew Graham of the Center for Advanced Computing Research at Caltech recalls trying to identify a few hundred quasars in 1996 for his doctoral thesis on large - scale structures in the distant universe.

Ahlberg's team instead looked at a single specimen of Psarolepis, slicing through the jawbone, skull bones, and scales to get a microscopic peek at their internal structure and so identify what they were made of.

Tensegrity can also be hierarchical, in that each structural element can itself be a tensegrity structure at a smaller scale, with tensional integrity being maintained both locally and globally.

They used this novel simulation approach to build a model of a sperm cell that demonstrates cellular movement from individual dynein protein molecules in the tail all the way up to the whole cell, allowing them to observe how changes at the atomic level are reflected in larger - scale structures.

If Susskind and Maldacena are right, it would mean that quantum mechanics determines not only the behavior of particles at very small scales but also the large - scale structure of the universe.

«New properties emerge when you can structure things at these size scales,» says Scott Mize, president of Foresight Nanotech Institute, a think tank that explores the practical side of ultrasmall - scale technology.

And at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, researchers are demonstrating how to fabricate a larger - scale starshade's delicate petals, fold the entire structure up inside a rocket, and deploy and unfurl it to the size of a baseball diamond.

Luckily, at a mere 6 on the Richter scale it was not strong enough to cause more than minor damage to the structures around me in Athens, Greece, let alone kill anyone.

Rennie: Right, right, that's right, you would, that's probably what most of us would have naively figured — you would see when you would look at the structure of the Web and how things grew up because it seems like things are up online and other things attach themselves and they inspire other things and you might expect that kind of exponential structure, but in fact you are getting this scale - free structure and that says there's something interesting about the way that in effect information wants to be organized within networks.

Water's behavior was tested with three different approaches: ultrafast optical measurements, which revealed the arrangement of molecules on the nanometric scale; a computer simulation on the atomic scale; and measurement of the water's surface structure and tension, which was done at the macroscopic level.

The detailed models produced using the MT imaging data of the southwestern U.S. more accurately portrayed surface structures at a scale of less than 100 kilometers, Liu said, which is important because features like volcanoes and faults are localized phenomena that are harder to predict using larger - scale models.

An imaging technique that freezes tiny biological objects such as proteins and viruses in place so that scientists can peer into their structures at the scale of atoms has won its developers the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Making fusion neutrons efficiently, at a small scale, could lead to advances in neutron - based imaging, and neutron probes to gain insight on the structure and properties of materials.

Designing materials for use in the large variety of gadgets and structures that support our everyday lives involves understanding them at their atomic, electronic and macroscopic scales.

«Ongoing observations of cosmological microwave background and large scale structures have achieved impressive precision, from which valuable information about primordial density perturbations can be extracted,» said Yi Wang, a co-author of the paper and an assistant professor at HKUST's department of physics.

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.

The organization of structure arguably begins at the stellar level, though most cosmologists rarely address astrophysics on that scale.

By changing the crystallization speed of a polymer initially well mixed with nanoparticles, the team was able to control how the nanoparticles self - assemble into structures at three very different length scale regimes.

[1] The cosmic web is the structure of the Universe at the largest scale.

These 0.5 - 2 mm - long hair - like structures at the tip of each leaf function like a Swiss Army knife in their ability to collect water from a variety of size scales.

For each prime, as the exponent grows, the formulas recur in ways that are reminiscent of fractals — structures in which patterns or shapes repeat identically at multiple different scales.

Michael Barnhardt, a senior research scientist at NASA ARC and principal investigator of the Entry Systems Modeling Project, said the X-ray work opens a new window into the structure and strength properties of materials at the microscopic scale, and expands the tools and processes NASA uses to «test drive» spacecraft materials before launch.

«You won't just see beautiful images with fine - scale structure, but you'll also be able to measure what the temperature is and what the density is,» says Eric Priest, a solar physicist at the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland who is not part of the IRIS team.

But Varmus says the award should start at a «small scale» because it is hard to anticipate how it will «change the structure» of a lab and its workforce.

«There is structure on scales at which the universe is supposed to be boring,» says Subir Sarkar, a theorist at the University of Oxford who was not involved in the work.

Researchers have developed hierarchical metallic metamaterial with multi-layered, fractal - like 3 - D architectures to create structures at centimeter scales incorporating nanoscale features.

The team then went further and looked to see if the rotation axes were linked, not just to each other, but also to the structure of the Universe on large scales at that time.

«The beauty of DNA made people forget about the genome's larger - scale structure,» said Job Dekker, a molecular biologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester who has built some of the most consequential tools for unveiling genomic geometry.

He says, «Here we pre-formed structures at nanoscale so they will form a known structure assembled at the meso scale, from which you can make a device.

The exceptionality of the finding is that the casts provide details at the submillimetric scale, revealing under the microscope the subtle structure of the baleen bristles.

PhD student Clara Hedegaard, leading author of the paper, added: «This method enables the possibility to build 3D structures by printing multiple types of biomolecules capable of assembling into well defined structures at multiple scales.

The researchers used a combination of advanced electronic structure calculations, magnetic property measurements, and revolving scanning transmission electron microscopy (revolving STEM) to see what was happening at the atomic scale in NiFeCrCo.

This feature means that the muscles can be used in numerous applications at multiple scales, such as miniature surgical devices, wearable robotic exoskeletons, transformable architecture, deep - sea manipulators for research or construction, and large deployable structures for space exploration.

«The information collected using this technique can be used to better understand the behavior of concrete when it fails, as well as providing key data for «constitutive» models that are used for designing and determining the safety of large - scale civil engineering structures,» says Rahnuma Shahrin, a civil engineering Ph.D. student at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

The scales contained what McNamara calls «fossilized multilayered reflectors» in which «light is reflected at the same angle from the different layers in the structure, producing a single visible color.»

«In this regime, where the structures we make are at or below the scale of the wavelength of light, suddenly all the rules change,» says Atwater.

«The light elements that makes up these «molecular tadpoles» are easily located by neutrons» says Dr Isabelle Grillo, at the ILL. «Moreover, small angle neutron scattering which we use at the ILL allows to characterise the self - assembled systems from the nanometre scale to tenth of micrometres and is perfectly adapted to observe the coming together of the C60 footballs» into these beautiful core structures.»

Dark flow is not the first CMB anomaly to hint at large - scale structures that can not be explained.

Despite the progress in crafting structures of increasing complexity at such a small scale, truly functional dynamic nanorobots that are autonomous and that can undertake useful tasks are still in their infancy.

The results revealed a complex structure made up of layers of molybdenum disulfide alternating at the atomic scale with layers of lead sulfide, along with other elements, including vanadium, antimony, bismuth, and selenium.

A separate group at Stanford University based their sensor technology on transistors incorporating a rubber layer patterned with micron - scale raised structures such as pyramids or pillars.