Sentences with phrase «tiny nanowires»

The most obvious approach would be to apply a magnetic field in the direction in which the magnetization runs in the tiny nanowires.

Gadgetry out of Rogers» lab has included everything from wireless electronic implants that fight a bacterial infection and then disappear, to stretchable batteries made of tiny nanowires arranged to resemble an accordion's bellows.

Not exact matches

Tiny cages with nanowire bars could block light from entering or exiting, but allow other materials through — which might be useful for biomedicine

As it turned out, other research groups had shown that some bacteria can transfer electrons via conductive pili, tiny hairs extending far beyond a bacterium's body that can act as nanowires.

The new approach uses yarns, made from nanowires of the element niobium, as the electrodes in tiny supercapacitors (which are essentially pairs of electrically conducting fibers with an insulator between).

By programming cells to produce different types of curli fibers under certain conditions, the researchers were able to control the biofilms» properties and create gold nanowires, conducting biofilms, and films studded with quantum dots, or tiny crystals that exhibit quantum mechanical properties.

If you have single nanowires that are very, very tiny and then you have to put them in particular places, it's very difficult.

Between the nanowires are tiny pores that act like capillaries to absorb liquid — again, like a paper towel.

For the experiment, the team built a tiny battery with a lithium - cobalt anode and a cathode made from tin oxide nanowires just 200 nanometres wide.

The first of the two key enabling developments is the new detector design consisting of tiny pieces of superconducting aluminum and a golden nanowire.

Georgia Tech scientists made piezoelectric generators out of nanowires and attached them to tiny hamster jackets.

Unique patterns made from tiny, randomly scattered silver nanowires have been created by a group of researchers from South Korea in an attempt to authenticate goods and tackle the growing problem of counterfeiting.

For example, researchers use SCF processes to form nanoparticles or nanowires inside the tiny nanotubes.

The first is ultra-long hydroxyapatite nanowires, which are tiny threads made from a mineral form of calcium apatite commonly found in teeth and bones.