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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

ScienceDaily: Engineering and Construction News

ScienceDaily: Engineering and Construction News


New method to determine surface properties at the nanoscale

Posted: 01 Dec 2014 10:25 AM PST

As machines get smaller, knowing characteristics can make huge engineering differences. Engineers have now developed a method for characterizing the surface properties of materials at different temperatures at the nanoscale.

Physicists create new kind of pasta to explain mysterious, ring-shaped polymers

Posted: 01 Dec 2014 08:34 AM PST

Physicists have taken to the kitchen to explain the complexity surrounding what they say is one of the last big mysteries in polymer physics.

Microbullet hits confirm graphene's strength: Possible uses include body armor and spacecraft protection

Posted: 01 Dec 2014 07:03 AM PST

Scientists have use dmicrobullets in experiments to show graphene is 10 times better than steel at absorbing the energy of a penetrating projectile. Graphene's great strength appears to be determined by how well it stretches before it breaks, according to scientists who tested the material's properties by peppering it with microbullets.

Longer and more accurate shelf-life with 'Smart' packaging material technologies

Posted: 01 Dec 2014 06:00 AM PST

Companies in an A*STAR IMRE-led industry consortium will have access to new active packaging that protects perishables with a layered plastic that is not only extremely effective at keeping out oxygen and moisture, but extends the shelf-life of food by absorbing oxygen that may be present in packaging.

Wireless electronic implants stop staph, then dissolve

Posted: 24 Nov 2014 12:25 PM PST

A resorbable electronic implant that eliminated bacterial infection in mice by delivering heat to infected tissue when triggered by a remote wireless signal, researchers have reported for the first time. The silk and magnesium devices then harmlessly dissolved. This is an important step forward for future development of on-demand medical devices that can be turned on remotely to perform a therapeutic function, such as managing post-surgical infection, and then degrade in the body.

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