Pathogenic bacteria commonly produce a thick, mucous-like, layer of polysaccharide. This "capsule" cloaks antigenic proteins on the bacterial surface that would otherwise provoke an immune response...
Carbon molecular sieves
Cardiovascular prostheses
Propagation delay is a technical term that can have a different meaning depending on the context. It can relate to networking, electronics or physics. In general it is the length of time taken for ...
Flat panel displays, commonly known as flat screen TVs, encompass a growing number of electronic visual display technologies. They are far lighter and thinner than traditional television sets and v...
Substituted cyclohexadiene polymerization
Oscillator stabilization
Direct memory access (DMA) is a feature of computerized systems that allows certain hardware subsystems to access main system memory independently of the central processing unit (CPU). Without D...
Each cell of a CCD image sensor is an analog device. When light strikes the chip it is held as a small electrical charge in each photo sensor. The charges are converted to voltage one pixel at a ti...
Myocardial transducer
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC, A/D, or A to D) is a device that converts a continuous physical quantity (usually voltage) to a digital number that represents the quantity's amplitude. The ...
Catalytic spheres
Cleaning devices
Control of multi-arm robots
Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which several computations are executing during overlapping time periods – concurrently – instead of sequentially (one completing before the next star...
Low surface-energy surfaces
In polymer chemistry, ring-opening polymerization (ROP) is a form of chain-growth polymerization, in which the terminal end of a polymer chain acts as a reactive center where further cyclic monomer...
A heat pump is a device that provides heat energy from a source of heat or "heat sink" to a destination. Heat pumps are designed to move thermal energy opposite to the direction of spontaneous heat...
The lead–acid battery was invented in 1859 by French physicist Gaston Planté and is the oldest type of rechargeable battery. Despite having a very low energy-to-weight ratio and a low energy-to-vol...
