Sentences with phrase «thinner 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.

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.

Rather than making transistors from conventional silicon wafers, they slice the material into sheets several times thinner than a human hair.

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

A 4 - nanometre wire of silicon, about 20 000 times thinner than a human hair, is called a «quantum wire», since the carriers within it are strongly confined in two dimensions but free to move long distances in the third dimension, along the wire.

«Smart» contact lenses that monitor the health of patients» eyes could become a reality, according to scientists who have devised flexible, electronic circuits 50 times thinner than a human hair.

The research focuses on guiding light through nanometer - thick metal films — about a thousand times thinner than a human hair — to propagate light with plasmon waves, a cumulative electron oscillation.

Carbon nanotubes, for example, are tens of thousands of times thinner than a human hair, yet are stronger than steel on an ounce - per - ounce basis.

They attached titanium oxide crystals a hundred to a thousand times thinner than a human hair (depending on the hair) to either side of an instrument that measures force.

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 needles in the patch — each 800 micrometers long and thinner than a human hair — penetrate only the top layer of skin, making it painless.

We design and synthesize the functional and structural materials of the future, including robust metal foils thinner than a human hair.

New nanoparticle - based films that are more than 80 times thinner than a human hair may help to fill this need by providing materials that can holographically archive more than 1000 times more data than a DVD in a 10 - by -10-centimeter piece of film.

He specializes in microfluidic technology — the flow of fluids through channels thinner than a human hair — to understand and control complex chemical and biological systems at critical times and locations.

The gold - platinum nanoparticles, which are about hundred thousand times thinner than a human hair, also are efficient at converting laser radiation into heat and killing the cancer cell, making them promising for another cancer treatment known as photo - thermal therapy.

Muscle fibers are thinner than a human hair.

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

John Hartigan, CEO of Mobile Cloth had this to say — «MOBiLE CLOTH is made of a unique high tech material consisting of microfibers 100 times thinner than a human hair!

A few months back Sony demonstrated their ultra-thin flexible OLED panel, which was thinner than a human hair, and could be wrapped around a pencil.

Researchers working with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation have developed a new technology, a super-thin film that is 50,000 times thinner than a human hair that sits on the surface of the water and acts as a sun shield.

Two - thirds of that came in the smallest detectable size of 11 micrometers, thinner than a human hair.

Thousands of times thinner than a human hair, they're highly conductive and feature a large surface area for the storage and transfer of electrons.

The solar photovoltaic cell is only one micrometer thick, which is far thinner than a human hair, while most thin - film solar cells are between two and four micrometers thick.

Each module contains four wires that are thinner than a human hair to create micro-suspensi...

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The machine can form layers as thin as 25 microns, which is thinner than most human hairs, and has a total a build volume of 4.9 by 4.9 by 6.5 inches.

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

The material Professor Barber tested was almost 100 times thinner than the diameter of a human hair so the techniques used to break such a sample have only just been developed.

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.

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.

The researchers designed the electrodes at the nanoscale — thousands of times thinner than the thickness of a human hair — to ensure the greatest surface area would be exposed to water, which increases the amount of hydrogen the device can produce and also stores more charge in the supercapacitor.

This produces nanowire filaments that are a thousand times thinner than the diameter of a human hair, typically about 300 nanometres or less.

First, acupuncture needles are extremely thin, a little thicker than the width of a human hair, a bit thinner than your cat's whiskers.