News tagged with hair fibers
Heads-up study of hair dynamics may lead to better hair-care products
Aug 17, 2008 |
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From frizzy perms to over-bleached waves, "bad hair days" could soon become a less frequent occurrence. Chemists report the first detailed microscopic analysis of what happens to individual hair fibers when ...
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Long carbon fibers could improve blast resistance of concrete structures
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Jeffery Volz, assistant professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, and his team have received $567,000 to explore ...
Nanotech process produces plastics that are 10 times more stretchable
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Move over, Rumplestiltskin. Researchers in China report the first successful “electrospinning” of a type of plastic widely used in automobiles and electronics. The high-tech process, which uses an electric ...
Clothing with a brain: 'Smart fabrics' that monitor health
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 08, 2008 |
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Researchers in United States and China are reporting progress toward a simple, low-cost method to make "smart fabrics," electronic textiles capable of detecting diseases, monitoring heart rates, and other ...
Neurons in zebrafish may reveal clues to the wiring of the human ear
Sep 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Developing neurons tend to play the field, making more connections than they will ever need. Then, the weakest are cut. But Rockefeller University scientists now show that neurons in young ...
Researchers identify structure of bacteria responsible for traveler's diarrhea
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), the Naval Medical Research Center and the National Institutes of Health, have solved the structure of thin hair-like fibers called "pili" or "fimbriae" on the surface ...
Spinning natural proteins into fabrics for new wound-repair products
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 20, 2008 |
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Scientists in Israel are reporting the first successful spinning of a key natural protein into strong nano-sized fibers about 1/50,000th the width of a human hair. The advance could lead to a new generation ...
Researcher studies carbon fibers for nuclear reactor safety
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Carbon fibers that are only one-tenth the size of a human hair, but three times stronger than steel, may hold up to the intense heat and radiation of next generation nuclear power generators, providing a safety mechanism. ...
One membrane, many frequencies
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Mar 27, 2007 |
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Modern hearing aids, though quite sophisticated, still do not faithfully reproduce sound as hearing people perceive it. New findings at the Weizmann Institute of Science shed light on a crucial mechanism for discerning different ...
Single gene may cause curly hair
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Australia have identified a single gene that strongly influences whether you have curly or straight hair.
Pushing light beyond its known limits
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of Adelaide have made a breakthrough that could change the world's thinking on what light is capable of.
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