By adding chitosan and borate buffer, the researchers were also able to enhance the fibers’ strength and adhesiveness. This ...

We will look at a very easy experiment that provides lots of information about the strength or the mechanical behavior of a material, called the tensile test. The basic idea of a tensile test is to ...

The tonnage necessary to bend 1 ft. does not double at 2 ft. but instead may increase by two-and-a-half to three times. As ...

It sounds like something out of a comic book: a material that shoots from a needle and solidifies into a fiber capable of ...

Ultimate tensile strength (UTS), often shortened to tensile strength (TS), ultimate strength, or Ftu within equations, is the maximum stress that a material can withstand while being stretched or ...

Every kid who has read a comic book or watched a Spider-Man movie has tried to imagine what it would be like to shoot a web ...

Signs Your Home or Commercial Building Contains AsbestosDenver, Colorado, Oct. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As a general ...

In a recent breakthrough, researchers have utilized a one-step tension-assisted twisting (TAT) method to fabricate bacterial ...

It’s straight out of a comic book: a shot of liquid silk quickly hardens into a sticky, strong fiber that can lift objects 80 ...

The stream of liquid silk quickly turns to a strong fiber that sticks to and lifts objects - although not yet villains.

Tufts University researchers have created a web-slinging material that solidifies mid-air, lifting objects up to 80 times its ...