Carbon nanotubes are molecular-scale tubes usually made of a carbon allotrope. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets] Reference
The step from polymer-based electronics to real molecular-scale electronics is a large but fascinating one. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 - Information for the Public] Reference
So it sounds like molecular-scale cooling occurs primarily by conduction, and this process occurs in a matter of picoseconds?. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Zimmer in National Geographic on flagellum evolution - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
(Moderated) sci. misc Short-lived discussions on subjects in the sciences.sci. nanotech Self-reproducing molecular-scale machines. From Wordnik.com. [List of Currently Active USENET Newsgroups (Part 2)] Reference
•In 1996, NASA researchers announced a Martian meteorite contained fossil traces of molecular-scale microbes billions of years old. From Wordnik.com. [Arsenic microbe answers a long way off] Reference
The research proves that nature's cellular machinery can be commandeered to mass produce complex structures and devices for molecular-scale engineering. From Wordnik.com. [Debate Result Seems] Reference
The Penrose-Hameroff Orch-OR theory ( 'orchestrated objective reduction') proposes that microtubules perform not just molecular-scale computation, but also, specifically related to consciousness, quantum computations. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Can Science Explain the Soul?] Reference
The process, which can build surfaces that have molecules with specific functions inserted at known intervals, has potential applications ranging from analysis of biochemical mixtures to molecular-scale electronic components. From Wordnik.com. [February 5th, 2007] Reference
Lou sees the discovery opening new paths for researchers looking at molecular-scale electronics. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
However, working with the material leaves molecular-scale rough edges, which can spoil its properties. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
Productive nanosystems are molecular-scale systems that make other useful materials and devices that are nanostructured. From Wordnik.com. [the Foresight Institute] Reference
The Swiss team fabricated these skinny graphene strips by triggering molecular-scale chemical reactions on sheets of heated gold. From Wordnik.com. [Technology Review RSS Feeds] Reference
ZIF-8 is a commercially available metal-organic framework (MOF) with molecular-scale pores that can have valuable catalytic applications. From Wordnik.com. [R&D Mag - News] Reference
Ice nucleation on metal surfaces affords an opportunity to watch this process unfold at the molecular-scale on a well defined, plane interface. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Ice nucleation on metal surfaces affords an opportunity to watch this process unfold at the molecular-scale on a well-defined, plane interface. From Wordnik.com. [gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine] Reference
Repeated observations over time result in a molecular-scale "movie" that reveals how parts of the RNA molecule wiggle around, both before and during splicing. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Behaving as molecular-scale sponges these MOFs have wide ranging potential uses for filtering, capturing or detecting molecules such as carbon dioxide or hydrogen storage for fuel cells. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
NanoAffix director Ed Corrigan says the company objective is to bring practical molecular-scale nanosensor products to market and pursue other innovative manufacturing technology applications. From Wordnik.com. [Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal] Reference
About Aculon, Inc. Founded in 2004, Aculon specializes in inventing and commercializing unique molecular-scale surface and interfacial coatings leveraging nanotechnology discoveries made at Princeton University. From Wordnik.com. [PR.com Press Releases] Reference
By molecular-scale standards, the spliceosome is a monster of a machine, made up of five RNA and 100 or more protein subunits that agilely assemble, step-by-step, into the giant complex when it's time to carry out its work. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The aim of this community is to use these molecular-scale insights to understand the interconnected biotic and abiotic processes that shape the macroscopic environment and its development and change over a range of time scales. From Wordnik.com. [SpaceRef - Calendar of Events] Reference
But new research makes it possible to scrutinize activities that occur over hours or even days inside cells, potentially solving many of the mysteries associated with molecular-scale events occurring in these tiny living things. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Expertise from the latter two institutions was needed because the researchers used nuclear magnetic resonance analysis to observe folate interacting with COG0354 protein - molecular-scale activity that could otherwise only have been shown indirectly, said Arthur. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Because of the size of the objects involved in producing molecular-scale gates and the high failure rate of their production, there's a very real risk of researchers being led astray by a contaminant or malformed structure of some sort that ends up acting like a gate. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
The development could ultimately lead to molecular systems that might one day be used for medical therapeutic devices and molecular-scale reconfigurable robots-robots made of many simple units that can reposition or even rebuild themselves to accomplish different tasks. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
Today, Nikon introduces super resolution fluorescence microscopy technology which greatly exceeds the resolution limits of conventional optical microscopes, making it possible to view microstructures and nanostructures of fixed and living cells with molecular-scale resolution. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
The system features hardware and software innovations that enable the two complementary techniques to be used together more effectively and with greater ease-of-use for a wide variety of life science applications, including cellular force and mechanical studies and high-resolution molecular-scale imaging. From Wordnik.com. Reference
(PhysOrg. com) -- Using a pair of exotic techniques including a molecular-scale version of ice fishing, a team of researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed methods to measure accurately the length of "nanopores," the miniscule channels found in cell membranes. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
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