Sentences with phrase «material mechanical properties»

Not exact matches

At points where material properties differs, mechanical stress occurs, which in turn will cause tearing and disruption of the material exposed to the shockwave.

Therefore, when an acoustic or mechanical wave contacts the material, it perturbs it, generating the unique properties that block sound waves and mechanical vibrations of certain frequencies from passing through.

ECM is the fibrous material between cells in tissues like skin, cartilage, or tendon that gives them their strength, stretchiness, squishiness, and other mechanical properties.

Mahmut Okatan, Alex Belianinov and Stephen Jesse of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences set up equipment to probe atom - scale mechanical properties.

They then selected the 258 most promising materials, categorizing them according to their magnetic, electronic, mechanical, thermal and topological properties.

A materials scientist could produce culture systems with different mechanical properties.

These atom - thin sheets — including the famed super material graphene — feature exceptional and untapped mechanical and electronic properties.

Materials in high - performance turbines have to withstand not only powerful mechanical forces, they also have to maintain their chemical and mechanical properties almost up to their melting points.

Graphene is considered the material of the future due to its extraordinary optical and electronic mechanical properties, especially because it conducts electrons very quickly.

Many products need large amounts of anti-microbial agents to maximize killing efficacy, which can weaken the mechanical properties and be toxic to tissues, but we showed that this material has outstanding mechanical properties and long - lasting antibiofilm activities without cytotoxicity.»

While mechanical testing is used to quantify the material properties of the urinary bladder wall, the development of models associated with the bladder has the potential to simulate the mechanical behavior observed experimentally.

The group has leveraged expertise in polymer chemistry, polymer physics, chemical engineering and materials science to manipulate the phase behavior, thermal transitions and mechanical and transport properties of block polymers to optimize materials design.

This is because mechanical properties such as a material's springiness and hardness depend on how it is processed — something that quantum - mechanical codes by themselves can not describe.

Published by the Condensed Matter research group at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, the Organic Materials Database is intended as a data mining resource for research into the electric and magnetic properties of crystals, which are primarily defined by their electronic band structure — an energy spectrum of electrons motion which stem from their quantum - mechanical properties.

To produce a medical implant, we need to select materials with similar mechanical properties to those in biological tissues, so as to mitigate inflammation or necrosis.

Natural materials have extraordinary mechanical properties, which are based on sophisticated arrangements and combinations of multiple building blocks.

«Our technique may improve the mechanical and potentially other physical properties of commercially relevant plastic materials, with applications in automobiles, protective coatings, and food / beverage packaging, things we use every day.

In his 1905 PhD thesis, Albert Einstein derived a formula, known as the Stokes - Einstein equation, that makes it possible to calculate a material's mechanical properties by observing and measuring the movement of particles in that material.

In recent years, carbon nanotubes have emerged as a promising material of electron field emitters, owing to their nano - scale needle shape and extraordinary properties of chemical stability, thermal conductivity and mechanical strength.

This year it is held in Sweden with focus on electronic applications of the two - dimensional material with the extraordinary electrical, optical, mechanical and thermal properties that make it a more efficient choice than silicon in electronic applications.

Next generation electronics and quantum computers rely on materials that exhibit quantum - mechanical phenomena and related properties, which can be controlled by external stimuli, e.g. by a battery in a microelectronic circuit.

The possibility to activate multiple quantum - mechanical properties in one single material is of fundamental scientific interest but can also expand the spectrum of potential applications.

«Harmonizing multiple quantum mechanical properties which often do not coexist together and trying to do it by design is highly complex,» states Professor Rondinelli.The application of an electric field to the oxide Ag2BiO3 changes the atomic positions and determines whether the spins are coupled in pairs (forming so - called Weyl - fermions) or separated (Rashba - splitting), and whether the material is electrically conductive or not.

Mixing and matching ultrathin compounds — each with unique optical, mechanical and electrical properties — may produce tailored materials optimized for a wide range of functions

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.

«Assembling nanoscale features into billets of materials through multi-leveled 3 - D architectures, you begin to see a variety of programmed mechanical properties such as minimal weight, maximum strength and super elasticity at centimeter scales.»

For years, scientists and engineers have synthesized materials at the nanoscale level to take advantage of their mechanical, optical, and energy properties, but efforts to scale these materials to larger sizes have resulted in diminished performance and structural integrity.

The material that Wang and his team created restores all properties needed for use as a dielectric in wearable electronics — mechanical strength, breakdown strength to protect against surges, electrical resistivity, thermal conductivity and dielectric, or insulating, properties.

This «piezomagnetic» material changes its magnetic properties when put under mechanical strain.

His lab is looking to see if other materials can show the same behavior and if mechanical strain can affect the superconducting properties of the material (these experiments were not carried out at temperatures where BaFe2As2 is a superconductor).

Instead of focusing on graphene's electrical properties, the researchers looked at the material's mechanical features.

The Empa researcher is convinced that the CNC material is suitable for a wide variety of different applications due to its outstanding mechanical properties, as well as the possibility of chemical modification and alignment during printing.

Of particular interest are changes in mechanical and thermal transport properties with which researchers try to determine the lifetime for safe use of the material in engineering systems within radiation environments.

«Showing that this material has order at the nanoscale will likely lead to new work on how to expand these ordered domains, and potentially manipulate the material's mechanical properties,» Irving says.

Carbon nanotubes» outstanding mechanical, electrical and thermal properties make them an alluring material to electronics manufacturers.

«We can now make multifunctional materials, in which many different material properties, including mechanical, thermal, and transport characteristics, can be optimized within a structure that is printed in a single step,» said Muth.

«Previously, the only mechanical work on feathers was done in the 1970s but under the assumption that the material properties of feathers are the same when tested in different directions, known as isotropic — our work has now invalidated this.»

«In this instance, the development of advanced structures to enable leap - ahead Army aviation capabilities not currently feasible due to limitations in mechanical properties of current materials,» Glaz said.

By manipulating the structure of aluminum oxide, a dielectric material, researchers were able to improve its optical and mechanical properties.

Although other materials can change shape in response to moisture, the researchers experimented with graphene - based materials because they are incredibly thin and have unique properties such as flexibility, conductivity, mechanical strength and biocompatibility.

This material succeeds where both large and small molecules have failed, the net result being a clear biodegradable plastic with desirable mechanical properties, manufactured from a sustainable and natural resource.

Electrical, thermal and mechanical properties are controlled by how the grains in a material are connected to each other.

Measuring the mechanical properties of the carbon - based material also makes sense because it offers excellent potential for a whole range of applications in the field of coatings and micromechanical switches.

They are the strongest and stiffest materials yet discovered — hundreds of times stronger than steel but six times lighter — and their unique mechanical, electrical, thermal and transport properties present exciting opportunities for research and development.

The new resist effectively combines the material properties of two pre-existing kinds of resist, achieving the characteristics needed to make smaller features for microprocessors, which include better light sensitivity and mechanical stability, says Paul Ashby, staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science user facility.

«Generally, a material that has smaller and smaller crystals actually has improved mechanical properties.»

ARL created a generalized model using an energetic formulation approach, which was key in identifying two important mechanisms for enabling high bending motion in soft biological actuators: (i) tuning physical properties (mechanical and geometric) via exploiting the interplay between the materials and dynamic nonlinearities to augment the motion; and (ii) highlighting the electromechanical coupling between the electrical field and nonlinear structural stiffness through the distributive actuation circuitries.

Their work suggests that, when trying to understand a real material's mechanical properties, scientists would be better served in many cases by starting with the framework of the anticrystal and adding order, rather than starting with a perfect crystal and adding disorder.

According to theoretical models, carbyne's mechanical properties exceed all known materials, outperforming both graphene and diamond.

Electronic skin, known as e-skin, is a thin, translucent material that can mimic the function and mechanical properties of human skin.