Sentences with phrase «than a human hair»

These fibers are 10 - 50 times thinner than the human hair.

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

They have illustrated their findings with the creation of nano «sieves» that can help separate molecules down to an unprecedented size 10,000 times finer than a human hair.

The pits are 1.6 micrometres apart — fifty times narrower than a human hair.

Acupuncture needles are solid, slender — slightly thicker than a human hair — and bear no resemblance to syringes.

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.

Blumenthal's team etched germanium - gallium - arsenic nanowires a hundred times thinner than a human hair in a semiconductor.

The transferred pieces are also much more elastic because they are so thin — a tiny 1.5 microns or less, much thinner even than a human hair.

Twisting together a bundle of polyethylene fishing lines, whose total diameter is only about 10 times larger than a human hair, produces a coiled polymer muscle that can lift 16 pounds.

The droplets were about one - fifth of a millimeter in diameter, a little wider than a human hair, and hit particles two to 10 times larger.

Researchers slowly pull apart tiny bits of a titanium oxide mineral called rutile, about a thousand times skinnier than a human hair.

A chinchilla's fur is considered the softest in the world: 30 times softer than human hair!

«If a store sells a Golden or a consumer has gotten a pup, the retailer should be able to advise them as to what to purchase, and know why a forced - air dryer is more effective and less likely to cause harm than a human hair dryer.

A printing head narrower than a human hair delivers a toothpaste - consistency stream of a special lithium ink that hardens after discharge.

Ma's research focus is microfluidics, the flow of liquids through channels smaller than a human hair.

We can not see objects much thinner than a human hair (a fraction of a millimeter) or resolve motions quicker than a blink (a tenth of a second).

He specializes in microsurgery, reconnecting nerves and blood vessels finer than human hairs, performing meticulous 12 - hour procedures with no breaks.

Xiaochun Li, a mechanical engineer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, built a novel chopper around a laser that is so accurate it can slice pieces no thicker than a human hair, about 1/300 of an inch.

After you joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in 1992, your attention turned to carbon nanotubes, carbon cylinders 10,000 times narrower than a human hair.

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.

Imagine shrinking it smaller than a drop of water, smaller even than a human hair, until it is dwarfed by a common bacterium.

On the opposite extreme, independently operated coiled polymer muscles having a diameter less than a human hair could bring life - like facial expressions to humanoid companion robots for the elderly and dexterous capabilities for minimally invasive robotic microsurgery.

Twisting together a bundle of polyethylene fishing lines, whose total diameter is only about 10 times larger than a human hair, produces a coiled polymer muscle that can lift 7.2 kilograms, the team found.

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.

However, not only did the wires become longer during this time, but also thicker: their diameter increased from an initial 20 nm to up to 140 nm at the top of the wire, still making them around 500 times thinner than a human hair.

They were the first to demonstrate that a microwave beam could actually lift a real structure — a tiny sail, about 1.4 inches in diameter, composed of lightweight carbon fibers 10 times thinner than a human hair.

Physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a nanolaser, a thousand times thinner than a human hair.

Now a pioneering team led by RMIT University's Distinguished Professor Min Gu has designed a nano - hologram that is simple to make, can be seen without 3D goggles and is 1000 times thinner 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.

Scientists have designed a nano - hologram that is simple to make, can be seen without 3D goggles and is 1000 times thinner than a human hair.

This outrageously obsidian material, called Vantablack, owes its darkness to a set of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes — each about 10,000 times thinner than a human hair — that are suspended in plasma and coated directly onto materials like aluminum foil.

A scientific team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has found a new way to take the local temperature of a material from an area about a billionth of a meter wide, or approximately 100,000 times thinner than a human hair.

Badding's team has fashioned these threads into 3 - foot - long wires, each thinner than a human hair and flexible enough to be wound into a coil or woven together.

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

In plant cell walls individual cellulose molecules bind together to produce fibres around 20 nanometres in diameter, 5000 times thinner than a human hair.

The devices are about 10 times thinner than a human hair, so presumably you would need epic fleets of them to make a difference in massive oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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.

Researchers at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., meanwhile, are placing their bets on racetrack memory, which stores data in a magnetic pattern on thousands of nanowires — each 1,000 times thinner than a human hair — arranged on a silicon chip.

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.

Geckos» feet have branching arrays of tiny hairs, the smallest of which are hundreds of times thinner than a human hair.

That's exactly what a group of chemical engineers and biochemists attempted in a new study, embedding single - walled carbon nanotubes — microscopic tubes thinner than a human hair that can also absorb sunlight and convert it to electron flow — in living chloroplasts.

To make such a detailed model, researchers took specks of brain tissue and cut them into slices thousands of times thinner than a human hair.

Spiders are superb artisans, weaving ethereal webs from silk finer than human hair.

«We have focused a very energetic laser beam on a tiny iron target — a little thinner than a human hair,» explains Alessandra Ravasio, who led the experiment.

However, the technology also has its pitfalls: To manufacture the components on an industrial scale, semiconducting or insulating layers — each a thousand times thinner than a human hair — must be printed onto a carrier film in a predefined order.