Scientists at Rice University and the University of Houston have created a powerful new material by guiding bacteria to grow ...

Environment and other properties will need to be considered when considering the use of plastics. For example, plastics may not rust, but water could potentially absorb into the plastic to act as ...

Deformation, fracture and fatigue are important mechanical phenomena in both metals processing and use. The role of dislocations in and the effects of microstructural features on the plastic ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. – Researchers have found a new tool to explore materials at extreme conditions. By combining very large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with time-resolved data from laser ...

In a deeper ecosystem, a study found ocean plastic snagging on coral was leading to deadly infections that literally eat the reef alive. A four-year survey said 125,000 corals in 150 reefs in the ...

In science, plasticity describes the non-reversible deformation of a material in response to applied forces; a piece of metal or plastic being pounded into a new shape, for example, displays ...

The apparatus has proved to be capable of measuring, with an accuracy of ± 5%, a difference of 0· 1 cal/g in the energy supplied to the specimens in heating them through a temperature range of 240° C ...

News Published: 14 May 1932 Plastic Deformation of Metals Nature 129, 717 (1932) Cite this article ...