• Cholesteric liquid crystals in living matter
    Liquid crystals play an important role in biology because the combination of order and mobility is a basic requirement for self-organisation and structure formation in living systems. Cholesteric liquid crystals a......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.12.05
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  • Custom-made artificial mother-of-pearl
                    Natural mother-of-pearl, such as mussels, is one of the hardest, most stable and stiff ......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.12.11
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  • 3D Plate‐Lattices: An Emerging Class of Low‐Density Metamaterial Exhibiting Optimal Isotropic Stiffness
    In lightweight engineering, there is a constant quest for low‐density materials featuring high mass‐specific stiffness and strength. Additively‐manufactured metamaterials are particularly promising candidates as th......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.12.14
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  • How particles arrange themselves into complex structures
    Complexity in nature, whether in chlorophyll or in living organisms, often results from self-assembly and is considered particularly robust. Compact clusters of elemental particles can be shown to be of practic......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.12.21
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  • 'Ant bridge'-inspired nanoparticle assembly fixes broken electrical circuits
    Colonies of social insects are capable of self-organizing and accomplishing complex tasks through individual interactions. For example, to march across large gaps, ants grip the bodies of each other, forming a living br......
    lchaoxu 写于2019.05.30
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  • Learning the signatures of the human grasp using a scalable tactile glove
    Humans can feel, weigh and grasp diverse objects, and simultaneously infer their material properties while applying the right amount of force—a challenging set of tasks for a modern robot1. Mechanoreceptor networks that p......
    lchaoxu 写于2019.05.30
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  • New nanocellulose foam insulates better than Styrofoam
    Researchers at Washington State University have developed an environmentally friendly, plant-based material that for the first time works better than Styrofoam for insulation. Photo: WSU.Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) have develo......
    lchaoxu 写于2019.06.19
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  • Stiffer shape-memory material utilizes magnetically-activated liquid
    While shape-memory materials do have some interesting potential applications, many of them require the application of heat in order to change shape – and that could cause problems, in temperature-sensitive environments such as the human bod......
    lchaoxu 写于2019.06.19
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  • Snail slime inspires reversible, super-strong glue
    The promise of reusable sticky things, from Post-it Notes to Blu Tack, has never quite been fulfilled. They're just never quite as sticky the second time around, or the third. But now, a team of engineers from University of Penns......
    lchaoxu 写于2019.06.19
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  • Polar bear fur-inspired insulation is even better than the real thing
    years now, scientists have marvelled at the insulating qualities of polar bear fur, suggesting that it cou......
    lchaoxu 写于2019.06.19
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