Sentences with phrase «of elastomer»

From a comfort perspective, the Ionic's included watch band is constructed of the same type of elastomer found in several other fitness bands and smartwatches, allowing it to avoid feeling like an obtrusive accessory.

The tracker's strap is made of elastomer and has a soft - touch textured design.

In keeping with the lightweight - design concept at the heart of the new E-Class, wheel location components such as struts, hub carriers and the metal sections of the elastomer bearings are largely made of aluminium.

The strong adhesion points stay in the plane of the elastomer, while the weak points break away.

The Pilot Sport 4 has a tyre compound featuring a unique blend of elastomers and hydrophobic Silica which helps the tyre to remain flexible - delivering excellent wet grip and reliable braking performances.

Not exact matches

One competitor, Carbon, makes 3 - D printers that can make a range of objects, including Adidas sneakers, from pooled resin and elastomers.

High - flow elastomers from Teknor Apex range need no pre-drying and have a light natural hue for ease of coloring

Geneva, October 18, 2016 — DuPont ™ Hytrel ® TPC - ET thermoplastic elastomer is being used to spearhead development of a ground - breaking metal and x-ray detectable conveyor belt.

The suspension system has coil spring and elastomer core shock absorbers that provide three inches of wheel travel.

The stroller also has a state of the art suspension with coil spring and elastomer core shock absorbers.

There is the coil spring and elastomer core shock absorbers provide 1.25 inches of wheel travel.

The bib, spoon, fork and the rim of the plate are made from polypropylene (PP) and thermoplastic elastomers (TPE).

Ting Liu at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and her colleagues built a specialised material out of a layer of hydrogel sandwiched between a stretchy plastic material called elastomer, and then coated in silicone rubber to keep the hydrogel from drying out.

Material: Hot yoga mats are made out of modern materials that offer comfort and support, such as different types of rubber, foam, and elastomer.

It fits right in the palm of your hand thanks to the custom thermoplastic elastomer handle.

CLIP enables a very wide range of material to be used to make 3D parts with novel properties, including elastomers, silicones, nylon - like materials, ceramics and biodegradable materials.

Moreover, the concept of using molecular design to mix covalent and reversible bonds to create a homogenous hybrid elastomer is quite general and should enable development of tough, self - healing polymers of practical usage.»

The robot body is made of a light sensitive elastomer stripe with patterned molecular alignment.

Researchers from the University of Warsaw with colleagues from LESN (Italy) and Cambridge (UK) have now developed a natural - scale soft caterpillar robot with an opto - mechanical liquid crystalline elastomer monolithic design.

Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, using the liquid crystal elastomer technology, originally developed in the LENS Institute in Florence, demonstrated a bioinspired micro-robot capable of mimicking caterpillar gaits in natural scale.

It can handle a multitude of stiff and elastic materials including hydrogels, silver nanoparticle - based conductive inks, liquid crystal elastomers and shape memory polymers, or SMPs.

They have synthesized a physically cross-linked elastomer composed of a central block onto which side chains are grafted (like a bottle brush) and with linear terminal blocks at each end.

The team then embedded several of these artificial muscles within a matrix made of the same soft silicone elastomer.

To demonstrate the technique, the team printed a pattern of hydrogel with cells in the shape of a tree on an elastomer layer.

She took note of each film's ability to stick to the knee after repeated bending, compared with an elastomer film that had no kirigami patterns.

The disc was made of a polymerised liquid crystal elastomer, a rubbery material that alters shape in response to heat.

«Our new material provides support for the liquid silicone as it is 3D printing, allowing us create very complex structures and even encapsulated parts out of silicone elastomer,» said lead author Christopher O'Bryan, a mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral student in UF's Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and lead author on the paper.

When asked about the durability of SRI's dielectric elastomer actuators, von Guggenberg acknowledges a need for more study but attests to a «reasonable indication» that they continue to work sufficiently long for commercial use: «For example, we ran a device for one client that produces moderate, 5 to 10 percent strains for 10 million cycles.»

Because of their nature, all SRI's dielectric elastomer devices exhibit a change in capacitance when they are bent or stretched.

«Because the dielectric elastomers can be purchased off the shelf and we'd use at most only a few square feet of material in each device, the actuators would be very low cost, particularly in volume production,» SRI's von Guggenberg estimates.

The image on the right shows a heated strip of nematic elastomer contracting to lift a 30 - gram weight.

To make what they call spring rolls, the engineers wrap several layers of prestrained laminated dielectric elastomer sheet around a helical spring.

«Having VAMPs built of soft elastomers would make it much easier to automate a robot that could be used to help humans in the service industry,» said the study's first author Dian Yang, who was a graduate researcher pursuing his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences at Harvard during the time of the work, and is now a Postdoctoral Researcher.

PHAs are a family of microbial polyesters that have attracted much attention as biodegradable and biocompatible plastics and elastomers that can substitute petrochemical counterparts.

They printed strips of a shape - memory polymer paired with a rubbery polymer called an elastomer.

Ting Liu at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and her colleagues built the nanogenerator by sandwiching a layer of hydrogel between a stretchy plastic material called an elastomer, then coating it in silicone rubber to keep the hydrogel from drying out.

To produce an energy - efficient method of synthesizing and extruding high - performance thermoplastic elastomers based on lignin, the ORNL team needed to answer several questions: Can variations in lignin feedstocks be overcome to make a product with superior performance?

Led by George Whitesides, a renowned Harvard chemist and materials scientist as well as member of Scientific American's Board of Advisers, the group's best - known robot is a squishy X-shaped quadruped made from elastomers — stretchy plastics — and controlled by pumping compressed air through its network of internal channels.

In a report published this week in Advanced Health Care Materials, the researchers describe a new technique of bonding hydrogels and elastomers to make this new material.

Resume: Block copolymers (BCPs) are an exciting class of soft materials that enable controlled phase separation and nanoscale self - assembly of designer macromolecules for applications ranging from thermoplastic elastomers and membranes to nanocapsules for drug delivery.

Block copolymers (BCPs) are an exciting class of soft materials that enable controlled phase separation and nanoscale self - assembly of designer macromolecules for applications ranging from thermoplastic elastomers and membranes to nanocapsules for drug delivery.

«Liquid crystal elastomer coatings with programmed response of surface profile ``, Greta Babakhanova, Taras Turiv, Yubing Guo, Matthew Hendrikx, Qi - Huo Wei, Albert P.H.J. Schenning, Dirk J. Broer & Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Nature Communications 9, Article number: 456 (2018), DOI: 10.1038 / s41467 -018-02895-9

The Clarke laboratory (website: http://clarke.seas.harvard.edu/) at Harvard University is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to conduct original and innovative research in the area of electronically controlled, adaptive devices based on dielectric elastomers for haptic applications.

Many of these materials are not new: hydrogels, liquid - crystal elastomers, and even more conventional polymers like polystyrene.

To overcome the limitations, researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Minnesota developed the first fully 3D printed dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA)-- a soft actuator prototype using active materials with tunable parameters such as structural flexibility, morphology and dynamic actuation.

Kim and colleagues designed their mechanochromic elastomers using a nonclose - packed array of silica particles dispersed in a rubber precursor to make sure the particles are repelled by each other thanks to the formation of a solvation layer on the surface of the particles.

He won the Feynman Prize in Experimental Nanotechnology in 2008, the NASA Space Act Award in 2008 for his development of carbon nanotube reinforced elastomers and the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society for his achievements in organic chemistry in 2007.

Made of medical TPE (thermoplastic elastomer), it is free of PVC, silicone, alkylphenols, latex and proteins (virtually allergy - free).

Frame is made of TPE (thermoplastic elastomer).

The combination of raw materials and the best siliconic elastomers and siliconic esters provide 24 - hour wear with transfer resistance.