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  2. 30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking ... - AOL

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    Curved into eyelike spheres, the material reflects X-rays and is packed into telescopes.These crustaceans have inspired other inventions as well, such as microchips and the Lobster Eye X-ray ...

  3. List of synthetic polymers - Wikipedia

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    The plastic kits and covers are mostly made of synthetic polymers like polythene, and tires are manufactured from polybutadienes. [1] However, due to the environmental issues created by these synthetic polymers which are mostly non-biodegradable and often synthesized from petroleum, alternatives like bioplastics are also being considered.

  4. Synthetic element - Wikipedia

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    A synthetic element is one of 24 known chemical elements that do not occur naturally on Earth: they have been created by human manipulation of fundamental particles in a nuclear reactor, a particle accelerator, or the explosion of an atomic bomb; thus, they are called "synthetic", "artificial", or "man-made".

  5. Synthetic fiber - Wikipedia

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    reinforcement of composite materials (glass-reinforced plastic, glass fiber reinforced concrete) specialty papers in battery separators and filtration; Metallic fiber (1946) is used for: adding metallic properties to clothing for the purpose of fashion (usually made with composite plastic and metal foils) elimination and prevention of static ...

  6. Composite material - Wikipedia

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    Following the example above, if one had a composite material made up of α and β phases under isostress conditions as shown in the figure to the right, the composition Young's modulus would be: = / (+) The isostrain condition implies that under an applied load, both phases experience the same strain but will feel different stress ...

  7. Stuff Matters - Wikipedia

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    Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World is a 2014 non-fiction book by the British materials scientist Mark Miodownik. The book explores many of the common materials people encounter during their daily lives and seeks to explain the science behind them in an accessible manner. Miodownik devotes a chapter ...

  8. List of piezoelectric materials - Wikipedia

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    Material & heterostructure used for the characterization (electrodes/material, electrode/substrate) Orientation Piezoelectric coefficients, d (pC/N) Relative permittivity, ε r Electromechanical coupling factor, k Quality factor Berlincourt et al. 1958 [30] BaTiO 3: d 15 = 270 ε 11 = 1440 k 15 = 0.57 d 31 = -79 ε 33 = 1680 k 31 = 0.49 d 33 ...

  9. Superhard material - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, extrinsic materials are those that have superhardness and other mechanical properties that are determined by their microstructure rather than composition. [9] [10] [11] An example of extrinsic superhard material is nanocrystalline diamond known as aggregated diamond nanorods.