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New measurement into biological polymer networks

(PhysOrg.com) -- The development of a new measurement technology under a research project funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation is probing the structure ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers demonstrate new MEMS dynamic rheometer (w/ Video)

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a microminiaturized device that can make complex viscosity measurements -- critical data for a wide variety of fields dealing ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Muscle filaments make mechanical strain visible

Plastics-based materials have been in use for decades. But manufacturers are facing a serious hurdle in their quest for new developments: Substantial influences of the microscopic material structure on mechanical ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Shear Ingenuity: Tweaking the Conductivity of Nanotube Composites

One of the immediate applications of carbon nanotubes (CNT) is as an additive to polymers to create electrically conducting plastics—a relatively low CNT concentration can dramatically change the polymer‘s ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 06, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Halos and horns: Fixing the 'taste' of diet soda

University of Illinois researchers Soo-Yeun Lee and Shelly Schmidt are trying to solve a mystery: Why doesn't diet soda taste more like regular soda? Can a well-trained panel of "taste testers" pinpoint the exact problem? ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 25, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Engineers probe spiders' polymer art

A team of MIT engineers has identified two key physical processes that lend spider silk its unrivaled strength and durability, bringing closer to reality the long-sought goal of spinning artificial spider silk.

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 30, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Silly Putty probe yields non-silly results about time-dependent material properties

Microscope tip charts relaxation of solid liquid Squaring off with Silly Putty - a material scientist’s worst nightmare - a Sandia National Laboratories researcher has demonstrated that a unique microscope q ...

Physics /

created Jul 08, 2005 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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