Skoltech researchers have fashioned a microstructure made of modified glass fiber that could in principle function as a tiny lantern for medical probes exploring the interior of blood vessels and ...

Through tests and micro-observations, the static and dynamic mechanical properties and microstructure of rubber concrete samples modified with varying amounts of silica fume and polypropylene fiber ...

Advanced manufacturing methods such as additive manufacturing (AM, or 3D printing), robotic fabrication, and 3D knitting allow manipulation of matter in new and interesting ways, thereby enabling ...

The team led by Zhang Shouchun, a researcher at the Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made progress in the field of carbon fibre microstructure research, and published a ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science; DOI 10.29026/oes.2023.220025 considers specialty optical fibers for advanced sensing applications. Optical fiber technology has changed the world in ...

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are heavily employed in the field of soft robotics because they exhibit the such ...

Electron microscope image of a nerve fiber with myelin (in black) in the optic nerve of an MS patient. In yellow, the spaces between myelin layers that are enlarged in MS) Disclaimer: AAAS and ...