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Stories about: smart materials

Carbon Nanotubes Rotate As They Grow Experts from the Rice University, in the US, and the Universite Lyon1/CNRS, in France, have recently released the first videos depicting the atom-by-atom growth of carbon nanotubes. Much to their amazement, they noticed that, as individual atoms were added to the nanoscale constructs, the entire structure rotated, in... 28 July 2009 03:57 GMT Robotic Bats as Next-Generation, Remote-Controlled Flyers Emergency response teams and surveillance crews around the world already benefit from the advantages that remote-controlled flying probes have during an emergency situation, in a spot where humans cannot survive. But, while the machines have certainly made it a lot easier for their owners to respond to a situation, a... 7 July 2009 09:03 GMT Terfenol-D: No Speakers = Great Sound! For many of you, the term magnetostriction might sound just like any word in a language you neither understand nor have ever heard of; yet things are rather simple and easy to figure out. In few words, magnetostriction refers to special materials which behave in particular ways when either strain or electricity is i... 26 February 2008 11:28 GMT