Sentences with phrase «mechanical properties make»

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«I was intrigued by the remarkable mechanical properties of these fibres spun by worms and spiders,» Kaplan says of what made him investigate silk in 1989.

For example, a special tomato is just being developed for a large Italian food company that needed special properties for mechanical harvesting for the texture of the fruit, to make it suitable for a new sauce product.

The result, published in Scientific Reports, was a product with comparable or better magnetic, mechanical, and microstructural properties than bonded magnets made using traditional injection molding with the same composition.

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.

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.

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.

Though chemists ran quantum - mechanical calculations to predict what the properties of compounds with boron triple bonds would be if you could make them stable, it wasn't clear that this would ever be achieved.

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.

Someday, superconductors could make for incredibly efficient power lines and electronic devices, but the development of such practical, room - temperature versions relies on a better understanding of the quantum mechanical properties of their far colder cousins.

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.

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.

Carbon nanotubes have specific mechanical properties that make them good candidates for the Air Force's work, says Ryne Raffaelle, director of the National Center for Photovoltaics at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

The scrolls have mechanical properties that are similar to graphene, and they can be made at a fraction of the cost, the researchers say.

Such computers make use of quantum - mechanical properties and can therefore solve some particular problems much faster than our current computers.

You would think that electrons would be easy enough to describe — but a quantum - mechanical property called «spin» makes that task much less straightforward.

For example, UW and PNNL researchers are developing novel 3 - D printing technologies to fabricate structural components with mechanical properties that can not be made by traditional manufacturing processes.

The fiber is manufactured via chemical vapor deposition into uncondensed tow that can be spun into the final fiber, plied together to make longer lengths, or stretched to enhance electrical and mechanical properties.

While rubber does not normally conduct electricity, the addition of graphene made the rubber bands electrically conductive without degrading the mechanical properties of the rubber.

During fabrication, living cells can be integrated into the scaffold, and its mechanical properties can be controlled to create a made - to - order patch of tissue.

Put another way, how all the interfering waves and probabilities of occupying available quantum states make a transition to a non-quantum mechanical material property.

OSB is a material with favorable mechanical properties that make it particularly suitable for load - bearing applications in construction.

You should be aware that foreclosure properties are sold «as is,» meaning limited repairs have been made but no structural or mechanical warranties are implied.

Foreclosure properties are sold «as is,» meaning limited repairs have been made but no structural or mechanical warranties are implied.