The porous structures called schwarzites are designed with computer algorithms, but Rice researchers found they could send data from the programs to printers and
make macroscale, polymer models for testing.
She has also made considerable progress in the ability to
make macroscale predictions of stress - strain response.
«
We made a macroscale version of this system, at the scale of several millimeters, to see if it worked,» Shepard notes.
Not exact matches
Extending the concept to
macroscale materials
made sense, Tour said.
Made up of fewer atoms than their
macroscale counterparts, each atom is that much more important to the component's overall structure and function.