Sentences with phrase «separated by a membrane»

An interior compartment has two reservoirs separated by a membrane.

The team decided to try out the concept in a simpler form before making their ultimate goal, a version where both sides (the positive and negative electrodes) are liquid and flow side by side through an opening while separated by a membrane.

When two liquid electrolytes made of different substances are separated by a membrane, sooner or later the membrane is permeated and the two substances mix, rendering the battery useless.

To get electricity from it, the liquids are pumped into a chamber separated by a membrane, sparking an electron - producing chemical reaction across the membrane.

Shapiro and his colleagues put fluid from smoker's lungs in the upper half of a plastic container whose two compartments were separated by a membrane.

Put the cold gas toward the center, the hot gas toward the end, separated by a membrane; spin the thing up to where you have a density gradient from center to end (sufficient to hold the hot gas at the «heavy» end?)

Not exact matches

The VRB stores energy - holding electrolyte in tanks — one for positive reactions and another for negative — that are separated by a thin membrane.

Cells were lysed and membrane and cytosolic fractions separated and EGFR abundance determined by Western blot.

The pump also has a kit, separate from the pumping mechanism, which is protected from overflow by a membrane.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

Using the TEER - MEA chip, the researchers built a beating vascularized Heart Chip in which human cardiomyocytes are cultured in one microfluidic channel that is separated by a thin semi-permeable membrane from a second, parallel endothelium - lined vascular channel.

Also, by using devices that contain large stretches of permeable membranes that separate salt water from fresh, scientists have tapped the voltage difference that exists between them.

The researchers created the nanosponges by separating the membranes of human red blood cells from their internal contents and stabilizing the membranes with an engineered core designed to absorb the toxins produced by pathogenic bacteria.

By sandwiching the bacteria between two layers of the soil they were found in, separated by a semi-permeable membrane, they were able to drastically increase the chances of a bacteria growing — and producing antibiotics — in the laBy sandwiching the bacteria between two layers of the soil they were found in, separated by a semi-permeable membrane, they were able to drastically increase the chances of a bacteria growing — and producing antibiotics — in the laby a semi-permeable membrane, they were able to drastically increase the chances of a bacteria growing — and producing antibiotics — in the lab.

Called an ionic diode, their device is composed of two nanocomposite electrodes with oppositely charged mobile ions separated by a polycarbonate membrane.

Images taken with an electron microscope confirmed that not only was its DNA separate from the rest of the cell, it was enclosed by a double membrane — just like the membrane envelope surrounding the nucleus of complex cells.

They then proceed to disintegrate the sperm's outer membrane and separate the mitochondria from the tail section, which is subsequently cut into smaller pieces that are then «devoured» by conventional selective autophagy.

Asghar's device consists of one inlet for the injection of a raw unprocessed semen sample and two plastic chambers separated by porous membrane.

In an effort to overcome these limitations, a team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by its Founding Director, Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., had previously engineered a microfluidic «Organ - on - a-Chip» (Organ Chip) culture device in which cells from a human intestinal cell line originally isolated from a tumor were cultured in one of two parallel running channels, separated by a porous matrix - coated membrane from human blood vessel - derived endothelial cells in the adjacent channel.

Cell contents are separated and protected from the external environment by cell membranes.

«When bees were pulled by the wings, large segments of the wing membrane would tear off or the wing would separate at the joint, such that the bee could no longer fly,» says Shackleton.

Here we describe an affordable, safe, and scalable battery system, which uses organic polymers as the charge - storage material in combination with inexpensive dialysis membranes, which separate the anode and the cathode by the retention of the non-metallic, active (macro-molecular) species, and an aqueous sodium chloride solution as the electrolyte.

Inside the chip, two microfluidic channels are separated by a porous, flexible membrane.

The stand - alone prototype includes two chambers separated by a semi-permeable membrane that allows collection of both gas products.

Osmotic pressure, the pressure that develops in a solution separated from a solvent by a membrane permeable only to solvent, was first described by Abbé J.A. Nollet, who became professor of experimental physics at the College of Navarre.

Proteins were separated by SDS — PAGE and transferred on a nitrocellulose membrane.

The team constructed a custom - built flow cell in which two channels were separated by an anion - exchange membrane.

Here we present a novel human Airway Lung - Chip containing a fully - differentiated human mucociliary airway epithelium separated from a pulmonary microvascular endothelium by a semi-permeable membrane that allows for immune cell infiltration.

Equal amounts of protein or conditioned medium were separated by SDS — polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and transferred onto nitrocellulose membranes and probed with the indicated antibodies.

Key to each of these units is a structure known the «glomerulus», in which podocyte cells wrap themselves tightly around a tuft of capillaries separated only by a thin membrane composed of extracellular matrix, and leave slits between them to build an actual filtration barrier.

«Our method not only uses soluble factors that guide kidney development in the embryo but, by growing and differentiating stem cells on extracellular matrix components that are also contained in the membrane separating the glomerular blood and urinary systems, we more closely mimic the natural environment in which podocytes are induced and mature,» said Musah.

Proteins were eluted by addition of 40µl SDS loading buffer and incubated for 10 min at 70 °C; 10µl of each sample was separated on a SDS PAGE gel, transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane, blocked with 5 % BSA and probed with unpurified ab51608.

What causes the connective tissue of the nictitating membrane to weaken or separate entirely is not well - known, although the condition is highly treatable by nearly any veterinarian.

It is separated from the outer ear canal by the tympanic membrane, better known as the eardrum.

They were layered on top of one another, membrane upon membrane separated by a thin film of liquid, almost like a stack of pancakes held together with maple syrup.

The idea is that outside air goes through a very long incoming conduit into the precipitation chamber and then returns through an equally long outgoing conduit that is placed right beside the incoming one and separated from it by a thin membrane of some thermally conducting substance, e.g. copper (expensive) or aluminum (scrap aluminum runs around $ 1400 / ton today).

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.