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Adventures in Nontranslational Research
Professor Martin Chalfie regrets the disproportionately high funding of translational research, defined as applied research for the treatment of human diseases. With examples from the research in his lab he wants to show how important nontranslatio....
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Bill uses slow motion video to show the ingenious engineering design of the apparently simple tab of a pop can.
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From structure and topology, to mechanical and electronic properties, a seemingly simple change in bonding between carbon atoms can conceive a plethora of material types. With diamond and graphite known since antiquity, better understanding of the sy....
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Mark Cutkosky is Fletcher Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. Here he discusses climbing robots and how they can take their cue from nature.
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A description of the science and a guide to making a hydraulic crane. This presentation won the prize for the best entry from students for whom English is not their first language in the 2016 Kroto Prize for Innovative Use of Technology in Science Le....
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Using slow motion video Bill Hammack shows how the mechanical digital-to-analogue converter of IBM's revolutionary 'golf ball' typewriter works.
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This presentation compares the mechanical properties of bulk- and nano-silicon.
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Looking at stress patterns in components using polarised light, part of the 'Engineered by US' exhibition
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The discovery of superconductivity in hole doped La2CuO4 was motivated by the interest to find this phenomenon in an oxide. After the discovery near 35 K, copper oxides with transition temperatures of up to 131 K at normal pressure were found, i.e.....
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Simulation of cell seeding and cell mechanical forces in tissue engineering
A brief description of the factors which are involved in simulating various effects in tissue engineering research.
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