The phrase "decrease the lifetime of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase to refer to a process that reduces the amount of time something will last or remain functional. For example, "Improper maintenance of the car's engine can significantly decrease the lifetime of the vehicle."
For Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), an unbalanced energy consumption will decrease the lifetime of network.
Land use changes and climate change may alter the risk of soil erosion that was not predicted in the initial development plans and decrease the lifetime of the investment.
However, the existing a-C film cannot resist high potentials generated during vehicle operating conditions such as start-stop process, high power loading condition, which result in carbon corrosion and undoubtedly decrease the lifetime of fuel cells.
Residual nickel present in the SNSPE templates may contribute a recombination center but does not significantly decrease the lifetime of films grown on SNSPE templates, making the growth of epitaxial layers by HWCVD on SNSPE templates a viable design for thin-film photovoltaics.
This is attributed to a saturated organic/inorganic interface, which will further decrease the lifetime of photo-generated excitons [23].
Comparing with the free-space radiation, the increase in the radiative rate would directly increase the quantum yield and decrease the lifetime of a fluorophore.
Statistical analysis61 shows that increase in humidity decreases the lifetime of the ball, which can be due to microwave absorption by vapour.
The inverter offers myriad benefits; however, the presence of harmonics (particularly low-order) in the output voltage affects the efficiency and performance of inverter, causes switching losses and decreases the lifetime of the system.
Primary neurons overexpressing aSyn were treated with 100 µM dopamine (DA) for 10 min. DA significantly decreased the lifetime of the donor fluorophore to ∼650 ps (n = 3 independent experiments, total of 57 cells, p<0.01) at the dose tested, indicating that DA induces the N- and C-termini of aSyn to be in closer proximity, reflecting a change in conformation (Fig. 3).
This especially intrigues a question when considering the recent study by Zhu and his colleagues (Liu et al., 2014), showing that the mechanical force prolongs lifetime of catch bond between TCR and agonist pMHC, but decreases the lifetime of slip bond between TCR and antagonist pMHC antigen.
