News tagged with smart materials

Meta-flex: Your new brand for invisibility clothing

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists are one step closer to creating a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak, with a new form of material that could also be attached to contact lenses to provide 'perfect' ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Network expands to 256 times its original size to bridge the micro and macro worlds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Now that scientists have developed a diverse assortment of nano- and micro-sized devices and materials, one of the biggest challenges is finding a practical way to incorporate them into macroscale ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 15, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Nitric oxide-releasing wrap for donor organs and cloth for therapeutic socks

Scientists in Texas are reporting development of a first-of-its-kind cloth that releases nitric oxide gas — an advance toward making therapeutic socks for people with diabetes and a wrap to help preserve organs ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Toward making smart phone touch-screens more glare and smudge resistant

Scientists have discovered the secret to easing one of the great frustrations of the millions who use smart phones, portable media players and other devices with touch- screens: Reducing their tendency to ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Vise Squad: Putting the Squeeze on a Crystal Leads to Novel Electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a new class of electronic devices ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- The technology of storing electronic information - from old cassette tapes to shiny laptop computers - has been a major force in the electronics industry for decades.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

New Smart Material Bends Under Internal Heat Source

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have developed a new smart material that can bend under the influence of an internal heat source. The material could be used as an aerodynamic flap in cars, in order to stabilize ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 6 feature


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