Articles Archive - Page 79 of 388

Copper: the coronavirus’s worst enemy?

Published 4 years ago by Sigrid | one response

In a time when we try to touch as little surfaces as possible and if we must, we prefer to disinfect them beforehand, more and more people are looking at copper as a miracle material, ...

Sailing the galaxy with a graphene solar sail

Published 4 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

The European Space Agency (ESA) developed a tiny sail made of graphene that has passed initial tests to one day function as solar sails for spacecrafts. Graphene is the thinnest known material, measuring only one ...

Sense & Sensibility

A kinetic structure made of wood

Published 4 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

Designed by UK-based design practice NEON, Shiver house is a wooden kinetic installation inspired by the common Finnish hut (mökki) that moves and adapts in response to natural forces. The house was initially installed in ...

Microlattice material outperforms EPS in helmets

Published 4 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

Corporate R&D laboratory HRL Laboratories developed an architected elastomeric microlattice material that has 27% more energy absorption than the current best-performing expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam. Most helmets combine a hard shell with closed-cell foam padding, ...

A semi-transparent brick façade made with augmented bricklaying

Published 4 years ago by Sigrid | one response

Researchers at ETH Zürich and local masons in Greece built a 225 m2 large wavy façade to demonstrate how augmented bricklaying combines the advantages of computational design with the dexterity of humans, supporting an entirely ...

An inflatable e-bike

Published 4 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

In order to create a portable e-bike, researchers of the University of Tokyo developed “soft mobility”, a new type of personal mobility made of soft, lightweight and inflatable materials, and their prototype Poimo (POrtable and ...