Cutting patterns into elastic materials allows you to unfold those materials into new shapes, and researchers have now ...

(Nanowerk News) Classical robots, such as those used for manufacturing, can lift heavy loads and repeat automated processes precisely. But they are too rigid and bulky for delicate work and ...

In a remarkable advancement, scientists from Shandong University, alongside colleagues from the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have engineered an innovative ...

It's not "flubber," but researchers at UMass Amherst have engineered a new rubber-like solid substance that they say has "remarkable" energy qualities. "It's really a composite between an elastic ...

AMHERST, Mass.—"Imagine a rubber band," said Alfred Crosby, professor of polymer science and engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "You pull it back, and when you let it go, it ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Mark Hersam has received funding to develop a new elastic material that could enable N95 medical face masks to be disinfected and reused dozens of times. Last week, the ...

image: An international team of researchers has developed a technique that uses liquid metal to create an elastic material that is impervious to both gases and liquids. Applications for the material ...

The elastic modulus relates the applied stress to the strain it produces. In a material that obeys Hooke's Law, the initial uniaxial elastic response is linear with stress and strain coupled through ...

Natural and human-made rubber can change its shape and come back again. Materials that can do this are called “elastic”. Elastic materials are useful in lots of ways: Similar to how tires and sneakers ...