Snakeskin inspires new, friction-reducing material
A research team led by CU Boulder has designed a new kind of synthetic "skin" as slippery as the scales of a snake.
Polymers
Mar 3, 2021
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News tagged with soft material
Designing soft materials that mimic biological functions
Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a theoretical model to design soft materials that demonstrate autonomous oscillating properties that mimic biological functions. The work could advance the design of responsive ...
Materials Science
Mar 2, 2021
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The future of electronics is stretchy
Stretchable electronic circuits are critical for soft robotics, wearable technologies, and biomedical applications. The current ways of making them, though, have limited their potential.
Materials Science
Feb 19, 2021
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New biomaterials can be fine-tuned for medical applications
Researchers in the UK and the United States have succeeded in 'fine tuning' a new thermoplastic biomaterial to enable both the rate at which it degrades in the body and its mechanical properties to be controlled independently.
Materials Science
Jan 19, 2021
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Making mechanical skin
Soft, stretchable materials that are also electrically conductive are hard to come by. It's even harder to create a circuit that withstands damage, going as far as to heal itself. For Carnegie Mellon University researchers, ...
Materials Science
Dec 1, 2020
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A shapeshifting material based on inorganic matter
By embedding titanium-based sheets in water, a group led by scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science has created a material using inorganic materials that can be converted from a hard gel to soft matter ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 30, 2020
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New process narrows the gap between natural and synthetic materials
Natural materials like skin, cartilage and tendons are tough enough to support our bodyweight and movements, yet flexible enough that they don't crack easily. Although we take these properties for granted, replicating this ...
Materials Science
Nov 19, 2020
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Thermal vision of snakes inspires soft pyroelectric materials
Converting heat into electricity is a property thought to be reserved only for stiff materials like crystals. However, researchers—inspired by the infrared (IR) vision of snakes—developed a mathematical model for converting ...
General Physics
Oct 21, 2020
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New 3-D printing method could jump-start creation of tiny medical devices for the body
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method of 3-D-printing gels and other soft materials. Published in a new paper, it has the potential to create complex structures ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 22, 2020
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Engineers use heat-free technology to make metallic replicas of a rose's surface texture
Nature has worked for eons to perfect surface textures that protect, hide and otherwise help all kinds of creatures survive.
Materials Science
Aug 27, 2020
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