Novel smart material stiffens up when stressed
Materials Today,
A new smart and responsive material can stiffen up like a worked-out muscle, say the engineers at Iowa State University who…
A new smart and responsive material can stiffen up like a worked-out muscle, say the engineers at Iowa State University who…
Feb 15 2018 Engineers at the Iowa State University have developed a novel smart, responsive material that is capable of…
Stress a muscle and it gets stronger. Mechanically stress a new rubbery material—say with a twist or a bend—and the it…
In lab tests, mechanical stresses transformed a flexible strip of the material into a hard composite that can support 50 times…