Sentences with phrase «than the width of a human hair»

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.

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

The new material, on the other hand, is tiny and soft, smaller than the width of a human hair.

Menon and his team discovered a way to design a flat lens that can be 10 times thinner than the width of a human hair or millions of times thinner than a camera lens today.

These iron - rich minerals are far less than the width of human hair in size, but produce a strong magnetic signal that can be easily measured by modern magnetometers.

Shorter than the width of a human hair, the roots absorbed lichen, bacteria and algae blowing about in the sand.

The sulfuric acid condensed into minute droplets — each two hundred times finer than the width of a human hair — that could easily remain suspended in the air as an aerosol cloud.

Poring over flecks of paint narrower than the width of a human hair, these art doctors have explored the secrets of some of the world's greatest paintings.

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.

They have LEDs smaller than 100 micrometers — slimmer than the width of a human hair.

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.

Nanomaterials are typically less than 100 nanometres, or 100,000 times less than the width of a human hair.

Scientists in Japan have demonstrated how to make electrical circuits on plastic thinner than the width of human hair in an attempt to reduce the impact of bending on circuit performance.

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

Then — and here's where all the action happens — magnets will guide the two proton beams so that they collide in a region smaller than the width of a human hair.

In a new study published in Nature, the University of Leicester palaeontologists, along with colleagues at the University of Bristol and the University of Texas in Austin, discovered that the dark «blobs» were actually made up of hundreds of thousands of microscopic dark granules, each 50 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

The flying height of this fast - moving head is as low as 2 nanometers from the surface of the disk, some 50,000 times less than the width of a human hair.

For a substrate measuring about 10 microns across, just less than the width of a human hair, their method can produce somewhere around 10,000 such centers within 10 nanometers from surface.

«The X-ray laser pulses are less than 30 femtoseconds in duration, the time it takes light to travel only 10 micrometres, less than the width of a human hair,» explained Chapman.

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.

Finer particles, at 2.5 microns (PM2.5) or less, are some 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair — and invisible to the naked eye.

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

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.

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.

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.)

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

One nanometer is about one hundred thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.

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.

«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..

Machines that are much smaller than the width of a human hair could one day help clean up carbon dioxide pollution in the oceans.

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.

The membrane is so small that impurities 900,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair are eliminated.

The team wondered what would happen if they instead filled the sandwich with microcapsules — each one smaller than the width of a human hair — containing positively charged white particles and negatively charged black particles suspended in oil.

The submarines are eight micrometers long — ten times smaller than the width of a human hair — and are propelled by an inner layer of hydrogen peroxide that reacts with the liquid they're submerged in to produce bubbles and shoot them forward.

Researchers have invented a clip - on that can enable a smartphone to function as a microscope, that can visualise specimens that are 100 times smaller than the width of human hair.