The new experimental technique may also help other researchers plumb the properties of materials lacking hydrogen bonds, such as superconductors and semiconductors, where they hope to manipulate the quantum mechanical behavior of advanced materials. (scientificamerican.com)
Now, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have combined these cornerstone capabilities into one instrument that can probe a sample in three dimensions and overlay information about the topography of its surface, the atomic - scale mechanical behavior near the surface, and the chemistry at and under the surface. (sciencedaily.com)
«So when you take out this enzyme, and you have elastin and collagen that aren't cross-linked, they have totally different mechanical behavior. (sciencedaily.com)