Metals usually soften when they expand under heating, but a research team led by a City University of Hong Kong (CityU) scholar and other researchers have discovered a first-of-its-kind super-elastic ...

Be it springs for absorbing energy, buffers for mechanical energy storage, or flexible structures in robotics or energy-efficient machines: Storage of mechanical energy is required for many ...

City University of Hong Kong researchers have accidentally discovered a first-of-its-kind alloy that retains its stiffness instead of softening as the temperature rises. Indeed, high-entropy Elinvar ...

Scientists have developed a hyper-stretchable elastic-composite energy harvesting device called a nanogenerator. A research team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials Science ...

Energy harvesting, an eco-friendly technology, extends beyond solar and wind power in generating electricity from unused or discarded energy in daily life, including vibrations generated by passing ...

Your legs are like springs. When you run, you stretch those springs -- in particular the Achilles tendon, and to a lesser extent the arch of the foot -- and store energy that's then released to power ...

The term 'elastic protein' applies to many structural proteins with diverse functions and mechanical properties so there is room for confusion about its meaning. Elastic implies the property of ...

The paper is about invariants of networks by labeling and relabeling its nodes or arcs. These invariants can be used to classify networks as to their complexity, or to distinguish non-isomorphic ...

The stiffness of the high-entropy Elinvar alloy remains invariant to temperature. Metals usually soften when they expand under heating, but a research team led by a City University of Hong Kong (CityU ...