Sentences with phrase «strand of human hair»

The material measures just one atomic layer, which is about one - thousand times thinner than a single strand of human hair.

That can have a basis in nutritional deficits (sometimes anemia) not to mention the potential for hairballs if they swallow long strands of human hair.

«With an outer diameter of only 130 microns, the probe is as thin as a single strand of human hair,» says Dr Jiawen Li, a researcher with the Adelaide Medical School, ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics (CNBP) and the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) at the University of Adelaide.

According to InfiniLED's website, the startup's ILED display technology is powered by millions of tiny LED chips, each roughly one - tenth the width of a strand of human hair, that are assembled on electronic circuits.

Ray Baughman, Ph.D., took a bundle of nylon fibers about the width of ten strands of human hair and wound them into a long, tight coil, just like an old - fashioned telephone cord but on a much smaller scale.

In all, the stack of ultrathin layers rose eight microns (one micron equals 3.94 x 10 - 5 inch), which is one - tenth the thickness of a strand of human hair.

By measuring the distance between the two satellites to within the width of a strand of human hair as they orbit the planet, researchers can record changes in Earth's gravitational pull that result from water moving across its surface.

The NUS - developed novel microfibre sensor, which functions like a conductive thread, is highly sensitive and ultra-thin with a diameter of a strand of human hair.

The novel sensor is highly sensitive and ultra-thin with a diameter of a strand of human hair.

Nanomaterials, composed of tiny particles or tubes a hundred thousand times smaller than the diameter of a single strand of human hair, may hold the key to solving problems in alternative energy, national security, and even human health.

(For scale, a strand of human hair is 100,000 nanometers wide.)

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.