Sentence examples for manipulating the surface from inspiring English sources

He treated clay like pie dough, pinching it, crimping it, denting it and manipulating the surface into angular folds.

"It actually begins with manipulating the surface data," Estrada-Belli said.

We also demonstrated that the optical properties of the device in different states can be controlled effectively by manipulating the surface structure of the TiO2-modified FTO electrode.

Since biomaterial surfaces and their micro and nano structures significantly influence cellular behavior, manipulating the surface characteristics of hydroxyapatite (HA) might potentiallyrepresent a strategy to control cell function.

Others have also estimated the DNA adsorption capacity of various clays, but have done so by manipulating the surface charge and size of particles tested which may overestimate sorption and underestimate the DNA available for horizontal transfer.

Here we reported a novel method for manipulating the surface charge of Au/TiO2 (Gold/Titanium Dioxide) photocatalysts within chemical reaction timescales by using our home-modified LED light source.

An array of plasma treatment approaches (hydrophobic and hydrophilic) can be exploited to manipulate the surface of polymer membranes for a variety of applications.

Through hydrophobic or hydrophilic chemical modification, we could readily manipulate the surface properties of these honeycomb-like films with controllable surface roughnesses and reactive functionalities.

It may be concluded that the AC 50 Hz plasma system can be used effectively to manipulate the surface properties of crosslinked gelatin films.

In this case, an alkaline hydrolysis plays a key role in the possible surface roughening effect and is applied to manipulate the surface morphology, whilst a further fluorocarbon layer is deposited in order to generate low surface energy.

With the development of feasible nanoscale fabrication technique including nanostructure patterning by conventional photolithography [6] or maskless method [7] that can easily manipulate the surface wettability [8, 9], nanoscale surface treatments could also be applied to boiling heat transfer enhancement.