News tagged with industrial fabric

Ultrafast sonograms shed new light on rapid phase transitions

An international team of physicists has developed a method for taking ultrafast 'sonograms' that can track the structural changes that take place within solid materials in trillionth-of-a-second intervals ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Development of world’s first functional polymer nanowire fabrication technology by pulsed laser irradiation

Japanese researchers selectively grew polymer nanowires using only irradiation with a pulsed laser, in a region limited to the area of irradiation. They also succeeded in imparting diverse functionalities ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Plasma etching pushes the limits of a shrinking world

Plasma etching (using an ionized gas to carve tiny components on silicon wafers) has long enabled the perpetuation of Moore's Law -- the observation that the number of transistors that can be squeezed into an integrated circuit ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

From chemical engineering to the catwalk

Seamless fabric that can be sprayed on to skin and other surfaces to make clothes, medical bandages and even upholstery will be demonstrated this Thursday, in advance of the Science in Style spray-on fashion show next week ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA Launches New Technology: An Inflatable Heat Shield

A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0