Many chemical properties of a material including composition and hydrophilicity58 affect cellular adhesion.
The information on ten different properties of a material might be scattered in ten different places.
Jamming enables a researcher to change the mechanical properties of a material drastically by squeezing it tightly.
The giant-magnetoresistance effect depends on a quantum-mechanical property of electrons called spin, which has to do with the magnetic properties of a material.
Such a paradigm will help to predict new high-Tc superconductors and provide a guide to modify the properties of a material to increase Tc.
Recently, a new method for determining crack closure properties of a material has been presented.
Hard coating can improve the surface properties of a material beyond the capability of the substrate.
The soft robotic scales are made using kirigami — an ancient Japanese paper craft that relies on cuts, rather than origami folds, to change the properties of a material.
US Patent 6,711,94141 Braithwaite G, McKinley G.H., Spiegelberg S.H., Apparatus and Methods for Measuring Extensional Rheological Properties of a Material (w/ Cambridge Polymer Group).
To understand the Universe, it is necessary to study its building blocks, in the same way one studies atoms to understand the properties of a material.
EECS faculty member Wojciech Matusik and other researchers are using a new approach to specify desired properties of a material, and a computer system generates a structure accordingly.
