Sentences with phrase «of liquid metal»

The work has implications for controlling the shape of liquid metals.

The extremely fine surface flair reminiscent of liquid metal impressively models the surfaces on the body through its powerful contours.

Nobody is doing it just yet; it would require cracking open the ground and pouring in thousands of tons of liquid metal.

This ocean of liquid metal, the outer core, surrounds the inner core, which is made of solid metal.

The flexibility of liquid metal lends itself well to soft robotics.

Its atmosphere has really changed from an almost star - like state dominated by huge, glowing clouds of liquid metal or dust.

This silver dress is like a stream of liquid metal.

The electric fields used to shape the liquid are created by a computer, meaning that the position and shape of the liquid metal can be programmed and controlled dynamically.

That was the key to making droplets of liquid metal eject from a nozzle.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed three - dimensional (3 - D) printing technology and techniques to create free - standing structures made of liquid metal at room temperature.

When the blocks make contact, they magnetically latch together and — in an action eerily reminiscent of the liquid metal T - 1000 cyborg in Terminator 2 — reassemble themselves in their original form.

It is widely accepted that the Earth's inner core formed about a billion years ago when a solid, super-hot iron nugget spontaneously began to crystallize inside a 4,200 - mile - wide ball of liquid metal at the planet's center.

Unlike other terminators, T - 1000 was crafted out of liquid metal and could transform into the shape of different objects and people.

«This work suggests that not only does the formation of the oxide lower the surface tension of the liquid metal, but that it also creates compressive stresses — the opposite of tension — that help the metal spread out and form fractals,» Dickey says.

A magnetic coil surrounds the tube and receives a short - lived electrical pulse to create a pressure within the tube that ejects a droplet of liquid metal through the orifice.

The Earth's core consists mostly of a huge ball of liquid metal lying at 3000 km beneath its surface, surrounded by a mantle of hot rock.

One technique involves stacking droplets of liquid metal on top of each other, much like a stack of oranges at the supermarket.

Each battery is made up of two types of liquid metal, one low - density metal that floats on top and one high - density metal that sinks to the bottom, with a layer of salt in between.

Now, a new analysis of imperfections trapped within the diamonds provides the first direct evidence that they were forged within blobs of liquid metal hundreds of kilometers below Earth's surface.

Tiny blobs of material trapped inside large, clear diamonds (such as this one) as they formed suggest the gems formed within pockets of liquid metal deep within Earth.

The swirling motions of the liquid metals there create the conditions for what is known as a geodynamo — a geologic electric generator.

How this dynamo was initiated and how it works is mysterious, but it seems that the circulation of liquid metal through a magnetic field (which must have begun eons ago) causes a feedback loop of electricity and magnetism and unleashes a powerful electric current hundreds of miles wide.

As well as being incredibly malleable, any droplet of liquid metal contains a highly - conductive metallic core and an atomically thin semiconducting oxide skin — all the essentials needed for making electronic circuits.

Otherwise, it could become a chaotic shape - shifting mess, like the death scene of the liquid metal T - 1000 in the film Terminator 2.

It is the only moon to have a strong magnetic field of its own, which suggests that it has a convecting core of liquid metal.

To stay in that exact spot, the craft will use a field emission electric propulsion engine, which ejects ions of liquid metal cesium to exert a miniscule thrust to counter tiny forces on the craft, such as the sunlight itself.

«While this work is in its early stages, the compelling evidence of detailed 2D control of liquid metals excites us to explore more potential applications in computer graphics, smart electronics, soft robotics and flexible displays.»

While the invention might bring to mind the film Terminator 2, in which the title character morphs out of a pool of liquid metal, the creation of 3D shapes is still some way off.

PPPL will continue to investigate use of the liquid metal in the revamped machine.

yes IED's do have shrapnel but I believe the biggest threat is from the superhot liquid metal, IE they put copper shavings or something along those lines in the device so when the explosion occurs a jet of liquid metal is projected in a directed fashion (in the most deadly IED's) so as to either burn thru soft barriers and to weaken hardened materials which the following shrapel has an easier time penetrating.

New method uses soft sheets made of silicone rubber that have many tiny droplets of liquid metal embedded inside them

Wafer - scale two - dimensional semiconductors from printed oxide skin of liquid metals by Benjamin J. Carey, Jian Zhen Ou, Rhiannon M. Clark, Kyle J. Berean, Ali Zavabeti, Anthony S. R. Chesman, Salvy P. Russo, Desmond W. M. Lau, Zai - Quan Xu, Qiaoliang Bao, Omid Kevehei, Brant C. Gibson, Michael D. Dickey, Richard B. Kaner, Torben Daeneke, & Kourosh Kalantar - Zadeh.

Unlike the current generation of light - water nuclear reactors, PRISM uses metallic fuel, such as an alloy of zirconium, uranium, and plutonium, and PRISM's fuel rods sit in a bath of a liquid metal — sodium — at atmospheric pressure, which ensures that the transfer of heat from the metal fuel to the liquid sodium coolant is extremely efficient.

Buyers will be able to choose from nine exterior colors, including two different matte - grey looks and a new AMG Alubeam Silver finish that uses nanoparticle paint pigment to create a finish that mimics the appearance of liquid metal.

This design visualization fuses the organic shapes of liquid metal with the sharp edges of a traditional Japanese sword.

The influence of the liquid metal T - 1000 character in James Cameron's film Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), to which Rae refers, can also be seen in the title and fluctuating black and white forms of Rae's contemporaneous painting Untitled (T1000) 1996, which was exhibited alongside Untitled (emergency room) at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, in 1996, as part of the group show About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s.

While dismantling a toilet, he undid the U-shaped trap in the plumbing and found it full of the liquid metal.

It features an emblem of a liquid metal slime on the waist.

To begin our evaluation of the SRT - 1000, we turned to another T - 1000 — this one of the liquid metal sort, from James Cameron's classic sci - fi epic Terminator 2, re-mastered on Blu - ray.

«3 - D structures built out of liquid metal.»

«Aside from being unusual, the other implication of these fractals is that in order for them to form the surface tension of the liquid metal must be close to zero,» Daniels says.

Think of the assassin T - 1000 in the movie «Terminator 2: Judgment Day» — a robotic shape - shifter made of liquid metal.

Reminiscent of liquid metal, this silky

The work also explains how the electric charges that accumulate on the surface of liquid metal droplets, together with their oxide skin, can be manipulated and used.

There are other Terminators here, including a different version played Schwarzenegger and the intimidating T - 1000 (Byung - hun Lee), the one made of liquid metal that can change shape.