Sentence examples for causing the material to from inspiring English sources

This property can be used to suppress vibration: the electrical current generated during vibration could be detected, amplified, and sent back, causing the material to stiffen and stop vibrating.

This works because of electrical attraction and repulsion: when polymer gels are in an acid solution, negative ions from the gel are attracted to positive ions from the acid that permeate the gel, causing the material to contract.

But once in the solid, the lithium can rearrange itself, sometimes causing the material to split into two distinct phases, much as oil and water separate when mixed together.

The plates closed in on each other like a waffle iron, causing the material to soften, merge and press flat as the excess goo spilled out over the edges.

In this study, Wang and colleagues manipulated the strain effect, or distance between atoms, causing the material to change dramatically.

All along its surface are tiny membranes that vibrate when sound waves strike them, causing the materials to rub together and generate a small charge.

This is due to the fact that the butyl chains are more hydrophobic than the ethyl esters causing the materials to experience more hydrophobic interactions at lower temperatures.

It also causes the material to darken, giving the window a tinted look.

This causes the material to flake into atom-thin sheets of graphene oxide.

Several of these "plastic gyres" — where currents cause the material to accumulate — have been found.

Such stretching, inter alia, causes the material to get thinner, of course.