Hydrogels are a permeable soft material consisting of polymer networks and water with applications ranging from biomedical ...

A rubber duck attached to a seaside rock using the hydrogel as a glue withstood repeated ocean tides and wave impacts, demonstrating its adhesive strength. (Video provided by WPI-ICReDD, Hokkaido Univ ...

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UK researchers have developed a prototype of a future giant rubber tube which could catch energy from sea waves. The device, dubbed Anaconda, uses 'long sea waves to excite bulge waves which ...

Elastic-wave technology is poised to alter touch sensing across multiple industries and on a range of rigid objects, including glass, wood, and plastic.

In a recent article, researchers explored Lamb wave-based analysis for detecting interfacial debonding defects in CFRP-rubber structures. The study demonstrated that the debonding evaluation factor ...

A giant rubber snake could be the future of renewable energy. The rippling “Anaconda” produces electricity as it is squeezed by passing waves.

Wave-generated electricity is carbon-free and so can help the fight against global warming. Together with tidal energy, it is estimated that wave power could supply up to 20% of the UK's current ...

Elastic-wave sensing technology uses a sensor attached to a surface (Fig. 1). This can be used to detect the amount of pressure and the position of the contact.

Current seismic imaging practices have generally ignored the effects of dynamic elastic nonlinearity and treat sedimentary rocks as elastically linear, using a relatively simpler ...