How to Use microstructure in a Sentence

microstructure

noun

• There, the microstructures don't have the characteristics of the ultra-black plumage.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2018
• Researchers are using specialized x-rays to study the microstructures of the skull in hopes of making better helmets for the military.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2019
• In contrast, the study on the Centrosaurus bone used DNA sequencing to understand the nature of the genetic traces inside it—but did not look at its microstructure.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2020
• Once the feathers began to slide too far apart, tiny microstructures that stick out like hooks on top of one feather meet a set of ridges on the underside of the other feather, locking them into place.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 21 Jan. 2020
• The researchers also found this scattering microstructure in the photon-eating black feathers that surround the patch of color.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 30 Apr. 2021
• The dissolving microstructures are able to do the same thing without actually damaging the skin.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 19 July 2018
• Scientists analyzed one of the beads in 2013 and found that its microstructure and composition were very similar to that of an iron meteorite.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2022
• All are similar in arrangement and microstructure to modern birds.
  — Ryan C. McKellar, National Geographic, 28 June 2016
• Steel, although hard overall, varies in hardness throughout its microstructure.
  — Meagan Cantwell, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2020
• Mantis shrimp have a super tough armor made of an impact-resistant microstructure.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 13 July 2019
• Based on research from the 1960s, Lentink says, there was a previous understanding that birds had hook-like microstructures on their feathers that created friction.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 21 Jan. 2020
• Rather than just letting acne-fighting ingredients lie on the surface of the skin, the microstructure technology allows them to really get in there.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 19 July 2018
• Blue feathers also get their color from microstructures, since digestion destroys blue pigments in birds.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
• To examine the microstructure of sidewinder scales, her team used an atomic force microscope to scan naturally shed snake skins, provided by institutions such as the Atlanta Zoo.
  — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2021
• For example, the paper shows that there will be permanent changes in the microstructure of cementum in someone who has suffered systemic illness, and this can be accurately dated.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 25 Mar. 2020
• Microgravity changes to the microstructure of the brain have also been reported, including changes to the structural connectivity of the networks of neurons.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• These materials spread impact around and dissipate energy in an ideal way for the microstructure needed in a body armor design.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2022
• Its outer feathers are waterproof because of an interlocking microstructure that the duck constantly fusses over, tidying the feathers and distributing preen oil from a gland near its tail.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• In 2016, an analysis of wings preserved in amber, which most likely belonged to a juvenile enantiornithe, revealed that the bird’s feathers were similar in arrangement and microstructure to the feathers of living avians.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018
• In particular, the microstructure of the dinosaur’s femur shows a feature called an External Fundamental System, accepted as a marker of fully adult body size.
  — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 19 June 2017
• Enlarge / Artist's representation of the microstructure of Velcro.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2021
• Neuroscientists have long viewed memory as a kind of neural architecture, a literal physical reshaping of the microstructure of the brain.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2010
• In the future, the team hopes to put its technology to more practical uses by affixing microstructures that can detect specific molecules onto optical fibers.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 24 May 2018
• In samples from their 68-million-year-old T. rex, Schweitzer and colleagues spotted microstructures commonly seen in modern collagen, such as periodic bands every 65 nanometers, which reflect how the fibers assemble.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 13 Sep. 2017
• Dubbed Ada, the robot mixed different solutions, cast them in films, performed heat treatments and other processing steps, tested the films' conductivity, evaluated their microstructure, and logged the results.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 11 Dec. 2019
• This hybrid result came from the combination of two conventional methods of microstructure formation.
  — Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2017
• Super black is an effect created by unique scales whose microstructure extinguishes over 99 percent of light to create surreal voids, making other colors appear more brilliant.
  — Jesse Hawley, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2021
• The robot probed beneath the worn surface of Mars, analyzing the microstructure of rocks and soil with a sophisticated array of instruments: spectrometers, microscopic imagers, and other tools.
  — Aline Reynolds, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2010
• Each participant’s white matter microstructure was measured using non-invasive, diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging at the beginning and end of six months of dance classes.
  — Monte Whaley, The Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2017
• Current computers still can’t run highly detailed plutonium models that capture the element’s microstructure.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019

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