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Self-Repairing Aircraft
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 - Roey Tzezana
Aerospace engineers at Bristol University have devised a new composite material for aircrafts that can self-repair. The new...

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Programmable Bending Polymers
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 - Avner Yanai
A team of scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, headed by Dr. Eran Sharon, managed to harness non–Euclidian...

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Adaptive Aerodynamics using Smart Materials
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 - Avner Yanai
Shape memory polymers are polymers whose qualities have been altered to give them dynamic shape "memory" properties. Using...