The scientists developed a 3D printer that squeezes out tiny water droplets into a drop of oil, creating miniature spheres with a lipid bilayer that mimics the membranes of living cells.
Richard Smalley, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist who was the co-creator of the miniature spheres of carbon called buckyballs and who is widely considered the father of nanotechnology, died Friday at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
The goal of this study was, therefore, to provide such an understanding by using a custom-made miniature instrumented sphere.
This study proved the efficacy of using a customized miniature instrumented sphere in measuring mechanical impacts created by various machine parts during harvesting.
The mechanical impacts that occur on blueberry packing line equipment were measured quantitatively with a miniature, instrumented sphere called the blueberry impact recording device (BIRD) at 11 packing houses in the United States in 2013 and 2014.
"We're all sitting at the same table, we're creating the public sphere in miniature.
The groupings of pristine abstract forms – white cones, spheres and shapes like miniature dolmens – look especially stark and unnatural in the artificial lighting, as if they were making a purely theoretical point.
These ashtrays, lamps, thermometers, andirons and salt and pepper shakers shaped as sphere and spire are, for me, that fair in miniature.
This optical measurement method is suitable for radial error measurements of miniature ultra-high-speed spindles because of its applicability to a small target sphere, high-speed response and minor susceptibility to electric noise.
Most of us, faced with a job interview, a worrying doctor's appointment, or even a lengthy flight, have trouble forcing down coffee and a cookie; Armstrong was about to travel nearly a quarter of a million miles, with no inflight movie, let alone miniatures of scotch, and drop onto what children used to believe was a sphere of green cheese.
For dessert, miniature balls of tapioca pudding swim in a glass with tiny tart fruit spheres from finger limes, coconut shavings and a slice of candied, dried pineapple.
