News tagged with carbon fiber body

YikeFusion: same design, heavier frame, less expensive

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some of you may be familiar with the YikeBike. For those you who are not familiar with the YikeBike it is a computerized bike that can be folded up and packed away when it is not in use. The ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 8 | with audio podcast weblog

Ordinary T-shirts could become body armor

(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple cotton T-shirt may one day be converted into tougher, more comfortable body armor for soldiers or police officers.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (26) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Review: Netbooks meet luxury in ultra-light Sony

(AP) -- Netbooks have been a hit among laptop buyers because they're cheap and they're easy to carry. Now there's the option to pay a lot more and get a lot less - a lot less weight, that is.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Lightweight construction on the way to volume production

Carmakers and airplane manufacturers are very particular when it comes to the weight of their models: the lighter they are, the less fuel they consume - and the less carbon dioxide they blow into the air. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Biodegradable transistors -- made from us

Silicon, a semi-conducting element, is the basis of most modern technology, including cellular phones and computers. But according to Tel Aviv University researchers, this material is quickly becoming outdated in an industry ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Study magnetizes carbon nanoparticles for cancer therapy

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of University of Texas at Arlington researchers have developed a method that uses magnetic carbon nanoparticles to target and destroy cancer cells through laser therapy - a treatment ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New nanotechnology converts heat into power when it's needed most

Never get stranded with a dead cell phone again. A promising new technology called Power Felt, a thermoelectric device that converts body heat into an electrical current, soon could create enough juice to make another call ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Sandia seeks better neural control of prosthetics for amputees

Sandia National Laboratories researchers, using off-the-shelf equipment in a chemistry lab, have been working on ways to improve amputees’ control over prosthetics with direct help from their own nervous ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

'Shish kebab' structure provides improved form of 'buckypaper'

Scientists are reporting development of a new form of buckypaper, which eliminates a major drawback of these sheets of carbon nanotubes -- 50,000 times thinner than a human hair, 10 times lighter than steel, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

As strong as an insect's shell

Harvard researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have come up with a tough, low-cost, biodegradable material inspired by insects’ hard outer shells. The material’s ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Glass sponges inspire: Hybrid material made of collagen fibers and silica as possible substrate for bone tissue culture

(PhysOrg.com) -- As well as organic structures, mineral structures also play an important role in living organisms. You don’t even have to go as far as seashells or the artful silica scaffolds of diatoms; ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Student-built electric car sets land speed record at Salt Flats

(PhysOrg.com) -- An electric car designed and built by BYU engineering students set a world land speed record for its weight class, averaging 155.8 mph over its two required qualifying runs, one of which was ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast


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