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Patent of the Month – Self-Replicating Materials
12/04/2020 | Kobus CilliersDarrell Mann
Here’s one we first started tracking back in 2012. Most ‘self-‘ solutions are interesting. This one seemed to offer up more than most. The ultimate factory! Now, as of December 8, the patent has been granted. US9,206,471 was … Read More
Patent of the Month – Negative Refractive Index Meta-Materials
15/03/2020 | Kobus CilliersDarrell Mann
Patent of the month this month takes into another foray into the realm of so-called ‘negative materials’. Or, as seems to be becoming more popular, ‘left-handed materials’. Which has a certain ring to it, if you happen to … Read More
Patent of the Month – Joining Dissimilar Materials
12/01/2020 | EditorDarrell Mann
Our patent of the month this month takes us to a quartet of inventors at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Washington State. US10,369,748 was awarded to the team on August 6. The invention takes us on a rare … Read More
Investments – Negative CTE Materials
25/12/2019 | Kobus CilliersDarrell Mann
Scientists have created materials that shrink uniformly in all directions when heated under normal everyday conditions, using a cheap and industrially scalable process. This potentially opens up a new paradigm of thermal-expansion control that will make electronic devices … Read More
Investments – Programmable Materials
27/03/2019 | EditorDarrell Mann
Living organisms expand and contract soft tissues to achieve complex, 3-D movements and functions, but replicating those movements with human-made materials has proven challenging.
A University of Texas at Arlington researcher recently published groundbreaking research in Nature Communications … Read More
Smart Materials Solve Contradictions
02/02/2009 | EditorThe value of smart material comes from its contradiction-solving abilities; linking the contradiction-solving material to a specific market need is critical to commercializing the product. Contradiction resolving is important to innovation.Read More
Destroying Construction Materials with Technological Effects
06/10/2008 | EditorThe destruction of large stones, pieces of structures, hard soil monoliths, etc. is often necessary to begin construction – new destruction methods were required.Read More
Application of TRIZ for the search of new materials features
10/02/1999 | EditorRe-printed from the TPD Symposium.
Semyon D. Savransky, Ph.D. The TRIZ Experts, USA E-mail: TRIZ_SDS@Hotmail.com
1. Introduction
The polyscreen approach proposed by Genrich Saulovich Altshuller is used … Read More