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New Infrared Camouflage Coating Created from Squid-Derived Compound

The scientists have developed a new camouflage using reflectin, a compound derived from Loliginidae, also known as pencil squids or calamari. The image shows two pencil squids Sepioteuthis sepioidea. Image credit: Jim Lyle / California State University Dominguez Hills.
Sep 10, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by Dr Alon Gorodetsky of the University of California, Irvine, has developed a tunable biomimetic infrared camouflage coating inspired by pencil squids. The scientists have developed a new camouflage using reflectin, a compound derived from Loliginidae, also known as pencil squids or calamari. The image shows two pencil squids Sepioteuthis sepioidea. Image credit: Jim Lyle / California State University Dominguez Hills. The...

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The round nodules are the q-glass, not crystalline but with a well-defined chemical composition (Leonid A. Bendersky / NIST)

Unique Metallic Q-Glass Could Be New Class of Solids

Aug 8, 2013 by News Staff

Q-glass, a new solid alloy that has been discovered in a rapidly cooled mixture of aluminum, iron and silicon, is neither a pure glass, a crystal, nor...

Antonio Stradivari by Edgar Bundy, 1893

New Attempt to Identify Techniques Used by Antonio Stradivari

Jul 8, 2013 by News Staff

Dr Marco Malagodi from the Università degli Studi di Pavia in Italy and his colleagues have used innovative methods to identify the techniques used by...

Pressure-induced transitions are associated with near two-fold volume expansions. While an increase in volume with pressure is counterintuitive, the resulting new phases contain large fluid-filled pores, such that the combined solid-fluid volume is reduced and the inefficiencies in space filling by the interpenetrated parent phase are eliminated (Argonne National Laboratory)

New Technique ‘Defies’ Laws of Physics

Jun 14, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, have found a way to apply pressure to make a material expand instead of compress. Pressure-induced...

The Shoulder Dress embodies the complexity of the design process when designing for active fibers. The collection shows garments in their multiple stages, low and high energy, enabled by future fibers and transformative textiles (© Ronald Borshan)

New Research Shines Light on Future of Fashion

Apr 19, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new research headed by Prof Joanna Berzowska from the Concordia University’s Department of Design and Computation Arts brings the future of fashion...

Diamond particles (Jason Nadler / Uic.edu / Sci-News.com)

Researchers Create ‘Water’ That Can Corrode Diamonds

Mar 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Scientists from Singapore and Belgium have successfully altered the properties of water, making it corrosive enough to etch diamonds. Diamond particles...

Scientists Probe Mysteries of Glass

Feb 27, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers at Yale University and the Texas Tech University have found a way of predicting whether a given glass will be ductile or brittle. A glass sculpture...

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