NewScientist.com Showcases Five Cool Materials

mariomario
edited July 18 in For SCIENCE
That's five, five cool materials! Ah! Ah! Ah! And with accompanying videos to boot! Dilatants sound like the most fun to play with.

Comments

  • deku12345deku12345
    edited January 2007
    Pretty awesome. I want to walk on a dilatant!
  • godgod
    edited January 2007
    I saw them do that on Brainiac, only with a pool of custard. What I want is one of those super fluids.
  • mjc0961mjc0961
    edited January 2007
    Those dilatants sure are mighty awesome indeed. It's almost like you're Jesus!

    The auxetic material is cool too.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited January 2007
    Diet Coke + Mentos + Dry Ice = Sweeeet
  • Amoeba BoyAmoeba Boy
    edited January 2007
    I didn't watch the video, but the description of an Auxetic material sounds awesome. I'd play with it forever.
  • mjc0961mjc0961
    edited January 2007
    Yeah, the auxetic material video takes forever to load. I eventually gave up. But imagine the fun you could have with that.

    "Hey man, could you pull this apart for me?"

    "Sure! ... What the hell?"

    XD
  • CytrollCytroll
    edited January 2007
    Bolton University? That's about 10 minutes away from me, maybe I should go steal some of that stuff.
  • brucebruce
    edited January 2007
    The proper name for a Dilatant is a non-newtonian liquid, as it is just a sort of NNL.
  • stefstef
    edited January 2007
    Yeah, but there are other nnl's that aren't diletants. Blood, for example, is a NNL, but you can't walk on a pool of blood.
  • DrLeopoldStrabismusDrLeopoldStrabismus
    edited January 2007
    That sounds like a challenge to me.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited January 2007
    I wouldn't want to walk on a pool of blood even if I could.
  • mariomario
    edited January 2007
    I think I'd be asking too many pesky questions like "So... where'd you get all the blood?"

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