An international research team is attracting the attention of experts in the field with computational results on the behavior of ring polymers under shear forces: They showed that for the simplest ...

It expands, it contracts, it gets stronger, it lets up — it reacts to changing conditions in formidable and comfortable ways. And the adventures of shear-thickening fluid, invented by University of ...

In oil-shear brake and clutch units, friction plates and oil work together to slow and accelerate systems. Consider oil-shear clutching: Upon startup, rotating input discs move toward stationary ...

Fluid shear stress on single layer cells has been used in many studies that aimed to understand the mechanisms of mechanical cell injury. One of the in vitro models used to generate shear stress is ...

In this inaugural paper, we shall provide an overview of the endothelial surface layer or glycocalyx in several roles: as a transport barrier, as a porous hydrodynamic interface in the motion of red ...

Scientists at New York University and NYU Shanghai have developed a new kind of gear that works without teeth or direct ...