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Location: Marseilles, United States
The life of a cell is not governed only by the biochemistry and genetics. The mechanics also say. A team of physicists from the Institute Fresnel1 in Marseilles, and biologists from the Institute of Developmental Biology of
Marseille-Luminy...
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Location: University of Southern California, United States
Quickly moving your fingertips to tap or press a surface is essential for
everyday life to, say, pick up small objects, use a BlackBerry or an iPhone. But
researchers at the University of...
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States
The National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an imaging system that quickly
maps the mechanical properties of materials—how stiff or stretchy they are,
for...
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Location: Iowa State University, United States
Let's say a fuel derived from biomass
produces too much soot when it's burned in a combustion chamber designed for
fossil fuels.
How can an engineer find the source...
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Location: Fraunhofer Techologie-Entwicklungsgruppe, Germany
Carbon
nanotubes possess extraordinary mechanical, physical and chemical properties
including actuation behaviour on both nano and...
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Location: University of Massachusetts Amherst ,120 Governors Drive,Amherst, MA 01003, United States
A remarkably simple experiment devised by scientists yields important
information about the mechanical properties of thin films--nanoscopically thin
layers of material that are deposited onto a metal, ceramic or semiconductor
base. ...
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Location: Northwestern university,Technology Transfer Program
1800 Sherman Avenue - Suite 504,Evanston, IL 60201,Phone: (847)491-3005,Fax: (847)491-3625, United States
Researchers have developed a remarkably simple way to convert ordinary graphite particles into very thin but superstrong sheets that are tougher than steel and as flexible as carbon fiber but can be made much more cheaply. The discovery could...
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Location: JILA ,University of Colorado,Boulder CO 80309-0440, United States
A key challenge in developing new nanotechnologies is figuring out a fast, low-noise technique for translating small mechanical
motions into reasonable electronic signals. Solving this problem will one day make it possible to build electronic...
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Location: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1070, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1070, United States
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) cell-stretcher that can measure the mechanical properties of a living cell, such as its ability to stick to a surface....
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