News tagged with elasticity
Shooting at ceramics
Producing thin ceramic components has until now been a laborious and expensive process, as parts often get distorted during manufacture and have to be discarded as waste. Researchers are now able to reshape ...
Apr 02, 2012 |
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New 'soft' motor made from artificial muscles
The electrostatic motor, used more than 200 years ago by Benjamin Franklin to rotisserie a turkey, is making a comeback in a promising new design for motors that is light, soft, and operates without external electronic controllers.
Feb 15, 2012 |
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Flexible paper robots
(PhysOrg.com) -- These inexpensive robots can stretch, bend and twist under control, and lift objects up to 120 times their own weight. Being soft, they can apply gentle and even pressure, and adapt to varied ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Electronic tattoo monitors brain, heart and muscles (w/ video)
Imagine if there were electronics able to prevent epileptic seizures before they happen. Or electronics that could be placed on the surface of a beating heart to monitor its functions. The problem is that ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Bilayer graphene works as an insulator
A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside has identified a property of "bilayer graphene" (BLG) that the researchers say is analogous to finding the Higgs boson in particle ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Chemists devise a way to create a five point knotted molecule
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists have for a long time been interested in a type of molecule that is literally tied up into a knot. This is where atoms are bonded together to form strands, which are then twisted around ...
Dec 30, 2011 |
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Tying molecules in knots
A new generation of lighter, stronger plastics could be produced using an intricate chemical process devised by scientists.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Researchers build transparent, super-stretchy skin-like sensor (w/ video)
Imagine having skin so supple you could stretch it out to more than twice its normal length in any direction - repeatedly - yet it would always snap back completely wrinkle-free when you let go of it. You ...
Oct 24, 2011 |
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Two seemingly unrelated phenomena share surprising link: Physicists gain new insight into solitons
(PhysOrg.com) -- A coupled line of swinging pendulums apparently has nothing in common with an elastic film that buckles and folds under compression while floating on a liquid, but scientists at the University ...
Oct 11, 2011 |
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How graphene's electrical properties can be tuned
An accidental discovery in a physicist's laboratory at the University of California, Riverside provides a unique route for tuning the electrical properties of graphene, nature's thinnest elastic material. ...
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Researchers characterize biomechanics of ovarian cells according to phenotype at stages of cancer
Using ovarian surface epithelial cells from mice, researchers from Virginia Tech have released findings from a study that they believe will help in cancer risk assessment, cancer diagnosis, and treatment efficiency ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Long-standing question about swimming in elastic liquids, answered
A biomechanical experiment conducted at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has answered a long-standing theoretical question: Will microorganisms swim faster or slower in elastic fluids? ...
May 18, 2011 |
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Researchers recommend new EU standards for machine strength grading of timber
To ensure that wooden constructions are sufficiently stable, timber must first be graded according to its strength. Machines for this already exist, but they are rarely used in Europe as current EU standards stipulate expensive ...
Mar 11, 2011 |
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Solving the riddle of nature's perfect spring
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have unravelled the shape of the protein that gives human tissues their elastic properties in what could lead to the development of new synthetic elastic polymers.
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Aquatic carnivorous plants with ultra-fast traps studied
How do Utricularia, aquatic carnivorous plants commonly found in marshes, manage to capture their preys in less than a millisecond? A team of French physicists from the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique ...
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Elasticity
Elasticity may refer to:
Numerous uses are derived from this physical sense of the term, which is inherently mathematical, such as used in Engineering, Chemistry, Construction and variously in Economics:
For more information about Elasticity, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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