A light wrap?Materials scientists have created fabrics that can both detect light and conduct electricity, suggesting new light-detecting textiles and novel projection screens. Reporting in the Oct. 14 Nature, Yoel Fink fink Slang n. 1. A contemptible person. 2. An informer. 3. A hired strikebreaker. intr.v. finked, fink·ing, finks 1. To inform against another person. and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, wove wove v. Past tense of weave. wove Verb a past tense of weave wove, woven weave fabrics out of hollow fibers 400 to 500 microns in diameter. The fibers consist of a glass core that generates an electric signal when illuminated, a middle layer of four tin wires, and a polymer envelope. To make the fibers, the researchers created a rod of the materials and then heated and drew it out into thin fibers, bringing the three materials into close contact. Light shone shone v. A past tense and a past participle of shine. shone Verb a past of shine shone shine on the fibers causes them to produce a current, which then flouts through the tin wires. Because fabric made from the fibers has a grid structure, a computer hooked up to the textile can track the location of an illuminated spot on the fabric's surface. One of the next steps is to reverse the process and make fibers that emit TO EMIT. To put out; to send forth, 2. The tenth section of the first article of the constitution, contains various prohibitions, among which is the following: No state shall emit bills of credit. light in response to an electric signal, perhaps opening up ways of making fabrics with patterns that can change.--A.G. |
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