The next generation of protective equipment is looking a lot less bulky and a lot more fluid. Shear thickening fluids (STFs) are novel field-responsive materials that can be engineered to be useful ...

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 ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – In things thick and thin: Cornell physicists explain how fluids – such as paint or paste - behave by observing how micron-sized suspended particles dance in real time. Using high-speed ...

Researchers using a high-speed camera have captured the moments a fluid reacts like a solid, through a new method of fluid observation under pressurized conditions. They examined fluids that have a ...

Eric Wetzel of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and Norman Wagner, professor at the University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials, have worked on armor technology for a decade. One material ...

What do paint, dishwasher detergent, ketchup and blood have in common? All are composed of particles suspended in a carrier liquid, flow when stirred or forced, but remain thick or even gel-like at ...