Around the turn of the 18th century, English philosopher John Gough stumbled upon the weirdness of rubber. When stretched, the elastic material felt hotter, then cooled below baseline upon ...

A new study by scientists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) shows that when a ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new elastic calcium phosphate material that closely resembles the structure of human bone has been successfully created by a research team from the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the ...