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Scientists have succeeded in using a nanometre-scale probe disguised as part of a biological membrane to infiltrate and monitor a living cell.
WN.com - Articles related to Hip hope from stem cell technique 2010
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Our ability to synthesize nanometre-scale chemical species, such as nanoparticles with desired shapes and compositions, offers the exciting prospect of generating new functional materials and devices by combining them in a controlled fashion into larger structures.
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"We have demonstrated a robust way to harvest energy and use it for powering nanometre-scale sensors," explains Wang.
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The technique employs nanometre-scale particles of gold as a recording medium.
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They showed that the precise structure of the graphene films they produced could be controlled by putting a nanometre-scale pattern on the thin nickel plates.
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One way to tell people that earthquakes can happen is to demonstrate the nanometre-scale vibrations of the numerous unfelt micro-earthquakes, so that they become known to almost everyone on a daily basis.
SciDev.Net 2009
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They showed that the precise structure of the graphene films they produced could be controlled by putting a nanometre-scale pattern on the thin nickel plates.
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They showed that the precise structure of the graphene films they produced could be controlled by putting a nanometre-scale pattern on the thin nickel plates.
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Other promising areas include optical imaging systems with nanometre-scale resolution, hybrid photonic-plasmonic devices and negative-index metamaterials.
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Li, Q.Y., and Kim, K.S. 2008, "Micromechanics of friction: effects of nanometre-scale roughness"
iMechanica - Comments Yong Zhu 2008
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