Sentences with phrase «serve as electrodes»

If the researchers can use multiple diamond tips in different shapes and further control the process, «one can envision forming a predesigned ribbon network ready to serve as electrodes in a specific circuitry of a future device,» he says.

MEAs are tiny rectangular devices that consist of evenly spaced metal bumps arranged in a grid, all of which serve as electrodes.

Laid down in thin films, randomly oriented carbon nanotubes form conductive networks that can serve as electrodes; patterned and layered films can function as sensors or transistors.

Both half cells contain a platinum mesh serving as electrodes.

Not exact matches

The electrode serves as a catalyst, a material that can spur one reaction after another without ever being used up.

One strategy has been to try to transform the electrodes from flat sheets into a forest - like array of carbon pillars, which are then wired together in long alternating rows to serve as negative and positive electrodes.

The carbon nanotubes served as one electrode and the lithium metal the other.

Would it be cheating for a tennis player to wear a portable electrode as she practiced her serve?

Implanted in the brain, Lieber's electrodes might one day serve as prostheses to help damaged nerves regain their function.

When those metals come into contact with sweat, saline or even fluid discharges from wounds, silver acts as the positive electrode and zinc serves as the negative electrode — and electricity flows between them.

In one VA - funded study, he is using a type of electroencephalography (EEG)-- in which veterans wear an electrode - studded cap on their head — to trace brain patterns that may eventually serve as biomarkers.

The special tumbler has a rim of silver electrodes that serve as a sourness simulator, giving off 800 - Hz pulses to tempt your taste buds.

To test LMP, the team shook the nanoplates free from one another and added a conductive carbon backing, which serves as the positive electrode.

As both an «electrograph» (meaning it can undergo direct electron transfers from an electrode), and an «acetogen» (meaning it can direct nearly 90 - percent of its photosynthetic products towards acetic acid), M. thermoacetica serves as the ideal model organism for demonstrating the capabilities of this hybrid artificial photosynthesis systeAs both an «electrograph» (meaning it can undergo direct electron transfers from an electrode), and an «acetogen» (meaning it can direct nearly 90 - percent of its photosynthetic products towards acetic acid), M. thermoacetica serves as the ideal model organism for demonstrating the capabilities of this hybrid artificial photosynthesis systeas the ideal model organism for demonstrating the capabilities of this hybrid artificial photosynthesis system.

All three electrodes connect to a single solar cell that serves as the device's power source, and the electrical energy harvested by the solar cell can be stored in one of two ways: electrochemically in the supercapacitor or chemically as hydrogen.