Sentences with phrase «smaller than the diameter of a human hair»

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

The link between fine particles, the diameter of which is smaller than a 30th of a human hair, and cardiopulmonary disease has been established for two decades, and the E.P.A. has regulated such emissions since 1997.