By placing these flexible nanorods in a polymer solution, the group found it could produce a composite material that had the elasticity and pliability of plastic, but capable of converting solar rays into electrical energy.
Still, the deal hints at uncharacteristic pliability on North Korea's part.
Mr Koizumi, the fans claim, will still prove to be a mould-breaker.Yet the party has now become emboldened by Mr Koizumi's pliability.
A similarly ruthless decisiveness may help to keep London's mayor, Ken Livingstone, afloat (see article).Cynics say the government's enthusiasm for one-man executives (11 of Britain's 12 mayors are male) is due to their pliability.
It then fell out of favour, along with the idea that behaviour is genetically determined, as Marxist ideas of the pliability and perfectibility of mankind became fashionable.
Having done so, as they report in Psychological Science, they tested those volunteers' moral pliability.
The appearance of the skin and hair may indicate dehydration by lack of pliability and lustre; or the presence of parasites such as lice, mites, or fleas; or the presence of ringworm infections and allergic reactions by the skin changes they cause.
After experiencing the teaching of a "marvellous severe and cruel schoolmaster," whose ministrations Cranmer later maintained instilled in him a permanent uncertainty and pliability, the boy went on to Cambridge in 1503.
The manufacture of modern inks takes into account the surface to be imprinted, the printing process, and special requirements for the job, such as colour, opacity, transparency, brilliance, lightfastness, surface hardness, pliability, wettability, purity, and odourlessness.
From then on Godoy's hold over the royal family, buttressed by his pliability, guile, and ingratiating nature, rarely, if ever, weakened.
Collagen is the major structural protein of skin and is responsible for its tensile strength, elasticity, and pliability.
