Sentences with phrase «such springlike»

A negatively compressible material could be built by stacking up many such springlike molecules (or something equivalent to them) like Lego bricks.

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Now MIT researchers are one step closer to engineering such an active, «second - skin» spacesuit: Dava Newman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT, and her colleagues have engineered active compression garments that incorporate small, springlike coils that contract in response to heat.