Sentences with phrase «several nanometers»

"Several nanometers" means a very tiny distance or size. It refers to measurements that are only a few billionths of a meter long. Full definition
The device captured the internal structure of electronic waves trapped in short sections, just several nanometers long, of nanotubes partially suspended above an atomically flat gold surface.
After combining the main ingredients of chocolate — cocoa, sugar, milk powder, and cocoa butter — and grounding them into a powder (to speed up the process), the scientists used high - powered x-rays to peer into the sweet's crystal structure, down to a scale of several nanometers.
New evidence, in the form of diamonds several nanometers wide, supports a theory proposed last year that a comet collision or a similar explosive event threw up debris and caused the cooling.
As the mean free path can vary from phonon to phonon in a given material — from several nanometers to microns — the material exhibits a mean free path distribution, or range.
After a series of transformations, the organic template forms an array of well - defined spherical micelles several nanometers in diameter.
To test if the proposed design is feasible, the scientists numerically modeled a spin diode with layers that are several nanometers thick and studied its properties.
The nanosheet is made up of flakes, which are just several nanometers (one billionth of a meter) in thickness with tiny holes.
The team «wrote» on the membranes with an AFM probe in water to create a series of peptoid - free linear gaps tens of nanometers in width and several nanometers to micrometers in length.
Such force would be of similar strength to the electrostatic force at separations around 1 nm, remain strong at distances up to the size of toxin molecules (several nanometers), and persist even beyond.
What scientists are discovering is that everyday materials, at very small sizes of one or several nanometers (a nanometer is equivalent... Read more
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