Reaearchers from Texas A&M demonstrate a process to apply a super gas barrier to plastic packaging films using only polymers in a water-based solution
Month: November 2016
How sterile workers still manage to pass on “their” genes and evolve!
In their hypothesis article in BioEssays, Downing et al. present a testable hypothesis as to why sterile worker castes evolve, and continue to evolve, in many social insect orders: a hypothesis with implications for understanding longevity in general.
Robot Skin with Advanced Gripping Skills
In this Advanced Materials Technologies article, researchers demonstrate for the first time a rapid manufacturing process and taxel geometry to create a large area, all-elastomer robot skin
Vitamin D Deficiency – Genetics, Sunlight, or Diet?
An individual’s vitamin D level depends on their Vitamin D uptake from food and supplements, time outside in the sun, and their genetic disposition.
Smart Liquid Windows
Glass-glass fluidic devices for large-area integration with adaptive façades and smart windows
Nylon muscles bend it like…the guys from MIT
Researchers from MIT present an approach to make artificial muscles with nylon that bend, controllably, in any direction.
Fast and precise metal cutting
Jenoptik’s new laser cutting machine Votan ranks among the most precise systems in its class.
An All-Organic Elastomeric Electret Composite
An all organic elastic electret is prepared with a piezoelectric coefficient comparable to the gold standard – poly(vinylidene fluoride.
Pure Protein Bilayers and Vesicles from Native Fungal Hydrophobins
Professor Seemann and his colleagues discovered how bilayers made purely from hydrophobins were created using a microfluidic technique.
Gecko inspires pick-and-place gripper
Cross-linked networks of liquid crystal polymers (LCNs) are used to regulate adhesion through stimuli responsive back-scrolling and self-peeling, to design a multi-legged gecko gripper.
Popular
-
New theory suggests gravity is not a fundamental force
-
French WEST reactor breaks record in nuclear fusion
-
Quantum entanglement visualized for the first time ever
-
Higgs boson may be driving the Universe’s expansion
-
An anti-inflammatory peptide may hold the key to low-back pain relief
-
Could a nuclear explosion set Earth’s atmosphere on fire?
-
Black hole images deliver a deathblow to alternative theory of gravity
-
The Road to Better Presentation of Data: The Do’s and Don’ts
-
The dramatic story behind general relativity’s Nobel Prize snub
-
New study reveals surprising impact of screen time on the developing brain