Sentences with phrase «smaller than a human hair»

Fine particulate pollution is a mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets, many times smaller than a human hair.

He says the 360 Eye sucks between seven to eight litres of air through it per second — twice that of the Roomba — which gives it the power to pick up particles as small as 0.5 microns, or smaller than a human hair.

She helped the trio build a forest of tiny carbon nanotubes, cylinders of pure carbon 10,000 times smaller than a human hair, that could boast over 2000 square metres of area per gram.

Carbon nanotubes are a tube - shaped material which can measure as small as one - billionth of a meter, or about 10,000 times smaller than a human hair.

Scientists imaged more than 1,700 mouse brains (injected with a tracer virus) at resolutions less than a micrometer, or 50 times smaller than a human hair.

And all of this thanks to tiny structures that are up to 1,000 times smaller than a human hair.»

The gecko is one of nature's best climbers, thanks to millions of microscopic hairs, with features about 20 to 30 times smaller than a human hair, that allow it to climb on virtually any surface.

Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have designed a nano crystal around 500 times smaller than a human hair that turns darkness into visible light and can be used to create light - weight night - vision glasses.

These structures of carbon may be tiny — a nanotube's diameter is about 10,000 times smaller than a human hair — but their impact on science and technology has been enormous.

Johns Hopkins tissue engineers have used tiny, artificial fiber scaffolds thousands of times smaller than a human hair to help...

The measurement approach consists of a microchip with a single hole or pore in it that is a few nanometers wide — about 5,000 times smaller than a human hair.

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«That means things that are smaller than the diameter of a human hair, like cells, parts of cells or the fine structure of fibers.»

The team's novel fabrication technique involves patterning a solar absorber with tiny holes with diameters less than 400 nanometers (that's roughly 200 times smaller than the width of a human hair), cut into the absorber at regular intervals.

The particles found measure just five micrometres or less; approximately 20 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

If the size of these crystalline structures is 1,000 times smaller than a single human hair diameter, then they are called nano - structures such as nano - rods, nano - wires, nano - ribbons, nano - belts etc..

But evolution has worked on much smaller scales too, producing finely honed nanostructures — parts less than a millionth of a meter across, or smaller than 1 / 20th of the width of a human hair — that help animals climb, slither, camouflage, flirt, and thrive.

They also tracked Apolipoprotein E (APOE 4), a well - known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's, as well as lifetime cumulative exposure to unhealthy levels of PM2.5 — particles which are at least 30 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair and frequently cause the haze over urban areas.

One particle is only 500 nanometers in size, which is 150 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

Hudson's laboratory used laser light to cool tiny amounts of the reactant atoms and molecules to an extremely low temperature — one one - thousandth of a degree above absolute zero — and then levitate them in a space smaller than the width of a human hair, inside of a vacuum chamber.

The device works by using periodic nanostructures, 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, to separate the different frequencies of light from each other.

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new device that measures the motion of super-tiny particles traversing distances almost unimaginably small — shorter than the diameter of a hydrogen atom, or less than one - millionth the width of a human hair.

In the center is a hole poked through the metal layer with a diameter of about 300 nanometers — about 1,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

CNTs are much smaller than the width of a human hair and naturally form «forests» when they are created in large numbers.

In contrast, perovskite solar cells depend on a layer of tiny crystals — each about 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair — made of low - cost, light - sensitive materials.

Recent advances in optical physics have made it possible to use fluorescent microscopy to study complex structures smaller than 200 nanometres (nm)-- around 500 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

Malinski's team has developed unique methods and systems of measurements using nanosensors, which are about 1,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, to track the impacts of Vitamin D3 on single endothelial cells, a vital regulatory component of the cardiovascular system.

Their name is derived from their size, since the diameter of a nanotube is on the order of a few nanometers (approximately 50,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair), while they can be up to several millimeters in length.

(A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or roughly 80,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.)

But what could you use if you wanted to create something really small — a structure less than the width of a human hair?

The force created by the rocket is less than the weight of a human hair, but in the vacuum of space it is enough to push a small object forward with a constant acceleration.

Tiny nanoparticles, far smaller than the width of a human hair, might help the body's own immune system fight tumors, a new study shows.

Think of a Rubik's cube made of millions of units smaller than the thickness of a human hair.

Each capsule is just 20 nanometers across; that's a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.

The fluid then goes through a second chamber, where the same force is used to filter out everything smaller than 130 nanometers, which is about the size of most exosomes and 500 times smaller than the thickness of the human hair.

Working in collaboration with Douglas Goff, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Guelph (Canada), Zuluaga Gallego and Velásquez Cock extracted cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs), which are thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair, from ground - up banana rachis.

For example, using a specially developed patterning technique, they wrote the word, «ICE,» on the material in a physical space 10 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

Although the tiny particles are around ten thousand times smaller than the diameter of a human hair, the surface area of a kilogram of such particles is equivalent to that of several football fields.

The new work in Nature Communications overcame fundamental barriers in utilizing LED technology on monolayer semiconductors, allowing for such devices to be scaled from sizes smaller than the width of a human hair up to several millimeters.

These modifications give SIR - PAM a depth of field 32 times larger than what PAM could achieve while also improving its resolution to as small as 90 nanometers (1 / 1000th the width of a human hair).

Their small size — they are 1,000 times smaller than the tip of a single strand of human hair — and «sticky» surfaces enable them to accumulate and be retained within the plaques to facilitate healing and remodeling to block plaque rupture and thrombosis.

Led by Argonne National Lab's Vojislav Stamenkovic and Berkeley Lab's Peidong Yang, researchers created hollow platinum and nickel nanoparticles, a thousand times smaller in diameter than a human hair.

Jan. 3, 2018 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have discovered novel ways to extend the capabilities of two - photon lithography (TPL), a high - resolution 3D printing technique capable of producing nanoscale features smaller than one - hundredth the width of a human hair.

The extremely thin diameter of 1.5 nanometers (over 60,000 times thinner than a human hair) means that thousands of the wires can easily be packed into a very small space.

State - of - the - art atomic force microscopes (AFMs) are designed to capture images of structures as small as a fraction of a nanometer — a million times smaller than the width of a human hair.

These nanoparticles are 1000 times smaller than the tip of a single human - hair strand.

The tiny particles are 1,000 times smaller than the tip of a human hair, and are designed to latch on to atherosclerotic plaques — hard deposits made from accumulated fat, cholesterol and calcium that build up on the walls of arteries and are prone to rupture, producing dangerous clots.

«They [quantum dots] are more than five thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair, which enables them to straddle the worlds of quantum and classical physics and gives them useful optical properties,» said project lead Ted Sargent, a professor in The Edward S. Rogers Sr..

Individual nanotubes can be 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair, yet 100 times stronger than steel, pound - for - pound

The team — led by Professor of Chemical Physics at Trinity, Jonathan Coleman, one of the world's leading nanoscientists — infused rubber bands with graphene, a nano - material derived from pencil lead which is 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

The size of these pores (less than 5 nanometers, nm) is 5,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.