Sentences with phrase «mechanical properties as»

Results were very promising; our products scored highly in terms of their thermo - insulating and mechanical properties as well as their hygric, or moisture - related, characteristics,» Professor Thole reveals.

The scientists believe they will be able to engineer synthetic bio-glass cartilage disc implants, which would have the same mechanical properties as real cartilage, but which would not need the metal and plastic devices that are currently available.

«Our e-Dura implant can remain for a long period of time on the spinal cord or the cortex, precisely because it has the same mechanical properties as the dura mater itself.

When they dissolved away the polymer core, a soft biodegradable protein shell was left behind with the same mechanical properties as red blood cells.

Because piglet skulls have similar mechanical properties as infant human skulls — meaning they bend and break in similar ways — Haut and Fenton used the already deceased specimens in their research and found they were able to classify the different fracture patterns with a high degree of accuracy.

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You could have said that the effective mass was equal to the mechanical mass plus some sort of electromagnetic mass, which had the property of increasing with the velocity in the ratio of 1 divided by the square root of 1 - v2 / c2, because as the field gets stronger the whole system contracts.

When the microbes have done their work at the bio-refinery, Perfect Day's dairy proteins - which have the same organoleptic properties as their animal - based counterparts - are harvested via a mechanical process and can be used in everything from ice cream to fluid milk, protein powders and shakes, yogurt, pizza and any other product containing dairy proteins, said Pandya.

Atomatic Mechanical Services, Inc., 3733 N. Ventura Drive, got a renewal on an industrial real - estate tax incentive known as the Cook County Class 6b Property Tax.

For example, researchers are developing «smart» biomaterials such as temperature - sensing hydrogels that can respond biologically to environmental conditions by changing their biomechanical or drug - releasing properties, says Seeram Ramakrishna, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Nanofibers & Nanotechnology at the National University of Singapore.

If imbued with a quantum - mechanical property known as spin, individual atoms act as tiny bar magnets with north and south poles.

Ongoing research suggests that water interacting with graphene has properties as exceptional and potentially transformative as graphene's electronic and mechanical properties.

From an engineering standpoint, the prepubescent body has different mechanical properties, so one goal of the consortium is to make anthropomorphic details in the model account for kid - sized bodies, as well as other variations in sex and age.

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.

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.

Graphene is essentially an ultra-thin sheet of carbon and possesses exciting properties such as high mechanical stability and remarkable electrical conductivity.

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.»

The flume will also provide new insights into natural processes such as sediment transport along shorelines and the mechanical properties of coastal soils, López Lara says.

«As pectoral fins evolve different shapes, behaviors, and mechanical properties, we've shown that the sensory system is also evolving with them,» said Brett Aiello, a PhD student in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, and the lead author of the study.

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.

«These meta - atoms can be integrated as building blocks for unconventional optical components with exotic electromagnetic properties over a wide frequency range,» write Dr. Jie Gao and Dr. Xiaodong Yang, assistant professors of mechanical engineering at Missouri S&T, and Dr. Lei Sun, a visiting scholar at the university.

The study, published April 10, 2017 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, combined measurements of fin shape from hundreds of specimens of the Labridae family with fin mechanical properties and neural responses recorded from eight different Labrid species, commonly known as wrasses.

The disadvantage so far: they absorb water very easily, are damaged as a result and lose their otherwise positive mechanical properties.

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.

They found that, as they had expected, the two unpaired electrons have aligned spins — the quantum - mechanical property that gives electrons a magnetic orientation.

Two examples: graphene — single - atom - thick sheets of carbon atoms — has unique mechanical, electrical, and optical properties; and two - dimensional electron gases (2DEG)-- planar collections of electrons supported at the interface between certain semiconductors such as gallium arsenide — allow the observation of such emergent behaviors as the quantum Hall effect and the spin Hall effect.

«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.»

«Humans have used silkworm silks widely for thousands of years, but recently research has focussed on spider silk, as it has promising mechanical properties.

When tapped against a cell, it sends back information regarding the cell's mechanical properties, such as thickness, elasticity, viscosity and electrical potential.

To study how and why DEB changes in volatility, the researchers measured properties such as vapor pressures and melting points, probed molecular structure, and ran quantum mechanical computer simulations to model the hydrogenation process.

«Our hypothesis is that maybe this sort of intrinsic mechanical property — the friction these proteins experience — helps them to get where they need to be, as well as maintain the spindle's organization and mechanical integrity during cell division,» Forth says.

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.

Doing that could also tell us more about the mechanical properties of cells and how they change as a result of disease.

«A microfluidic device that sorts cells based on their mechanical properties could offer cost and labor advantages over current methods and may provide sufficient enrichment to serve as an alternative or additional approach to antibody - based techniques,» Sulchek says.

To address this problem, Bongiorno and senior study author Todd Sulchek, an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, set out to identify biomechanical properties that could be used as a faster, cheaper alternative to enrich for stem cells.

Cast iron can be modified through the manufacturing process to optimize its mechanical and physical properties, such as strength and durability.

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

Prof. Chen Li's research group in the Mechanical Engineering Department is using high pressure as a tool to (1) understand the physics of fundamental excitations in the materials; (2) tune the properties of existing energy materials; and (3) engineer innovative multi-functional materials through high pressure synthesis or other indirect approaches.

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

Professor Pugno said: «Humans have used silkworm silks widely for thousands of years, but recently research has focussed on spider silk, as it has extremely promising mechanical properties.

Ultimately, we expect that the project will help BioModics select the optimal silicone type, hydrogel content, and possibly other parameters, in order to achieve the best possible properties for our devices — including an optimal hydrogel structure for drug delivery and optimal mechanical properties, such as softness and flexibility, for the catheter material.

The latest investigations on the thermal properties of silicon, the most common material in electronics, micro - and nano - electro - mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) and photonics, have pointed to nanostructuring as a highly efficient approach to acoustic phonon engineering [1 - 3].

However defects within the ribbon can have significant effects on electronic, as well as thermal and mechanical properties.

But development of those applications often require graphene materials to be as structurally perfect as possible in order to achieve extraordinary electrical, mechanical or thermal properties.

The carbon nanotube bundles, when integrated into a system, act as a reinforcement, providing enhanced mechanical properties.

After discovering how to mass produce carbon nanotubes, he and his colleagues measured many of their unique features such as their mechanical and wetting properties.

The material's mechanical strength, derived from a rare property known as Negative Poisson's Ratio, may hold especially interesting applications for technology, the researchers said.