Marek Urban and colleagues at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg were inspired to create their self - healing plastic by signs of healing in nature such as newly
formed tree bark.
Not exact matches
Don't go
barking up the wrong
tree in the Year of the Dog A predictable wave of profit taking and risk reduction, as is standard
form ahead of US long weekends, dominated Friday session leading to USD gains as US yields pulled back.
As an arbuscule is
formed, new plant and fungal membrane must be generated, like the
bark on the extending branches of a growing
tree.
The cerebral cortex is like the
bark on a
tree — it
forms the surface of the cerebral hemispheres.
Penone meticulously carves back the
bark and outer layers of seemingly mundane pieces of wood along the growth lines in order to reveal and expose the various knots that once
formed the saplings and branches, a subtractive process that yields a younger version of the
tree contained within the beam.
Sculpted from clay extracted from the earth, each work is
formed by directly imprinting the soft clay on
tree bark.
Isamu Noguchi Floor Lamp Paper, bamboo, iron Retailed by George Kovacs, New York, c. 1978 Handmade Mino - gami paper globe made from the
bark of a Mulberry
tree, over a single socket on bamboo stem with a cast iron base in the
form of a rock, ht.
Moreover, the available evidence of a CO2 effect on
tree - ring growth during the instrumental period appears to be limited to «strip
bark»
forms of a very few species, as noted in the NAS report.
One final note: bristlecone pines often have an unusual growth
form known as «strip
bark morphology» in which annual growth layers are restricted to only parts of a
tree's circumference.