时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:60秒科学


英语课

M.I.T. researchers have developed a piezoelectric fiber 1 that would react to electric currents and have the potential to record or produce audio.


Clothing is so yesterday. I mean, really, what can it do? It can’t pick up sound, or beep at us if something’s wrong. Or can it? M.I.T. researchers say they’ve developed a fiber that would allow clothing to eventually do those things. Their study is in the journal Nature Materials.


A big key to the fiber is a plastic commonly used in microphones. Its particular molecular 2 structure involves a lopsided arrangement of fluorine atoms on one side and hydrogen atoms on the other. That asymmetry 3 makes the plastic piezoelectric: it changes shape when it encounters an electric field.


So any electric current will then cause the fibers 4 to vibrate. The fibers could act as a microphone or a speaker, depending on whether the vibrations 5 were being recorded or amplified 6.


The clothing mic could capture speech, sure. But it could also monitor health by detecting almost imperceptible sounds from the body. Sounds like blood flow, which could make a shirt a 24-hour blood-pressure monitor. So maybe someday, your clothes will say: “I detect a rise in blood pressure. Please sit down.”

 



n.纤维,纤维质
  • The basic structural unit of yarn is the fiber.纤维是纱的基本结构单元。
  • The material must be free of fiber clumps.这种材料必须无纤维块。
adj.分子的;克分子的
  • The research will provide direct insight into molecular mechanisms.这项研究将使人能够直接地了解分子的机理。
  • For the pressure to become zero, molecular bombardment must cease.当压强趋近于零时,分子的碰撞就停止了。
n.不对称;adj.不对称的,不对等的
  • These bands must introduce longitudinal asymmetry in the planetary albedo.这些云带必定引起行星反照率的经向不对称性。
  • In any event the asymmetry is clear enough.总之,不对称是非常明显的。
光纤( fiber的名词复数 ); (织物的)质地; 纤维,纤维物质
  • Thesolution of collagen-PVA was wet spined with the sodium sulfate as coagulant and collagen-PVA composite fibers were prepared. 在此基础上,以硫酸钠为凝固剂,对胶原-PVA共混溶液进行湿法纺丝,制备了胶原-PVA复合纤维。
  • Sympathetic fibers are distributed to all regions of the heart. 交感神经纤维分布于心脏的所有部分。
n.摆动( vibration的名词复数 );震动;感受;(偏离平衡位置的)一次性往复振动
  • We could feel the vibrations from the trucks passing outside. 我们可以感到外面卡车经过时的颤动。
  • I am drawn to that girl; I get good vibrations from her. 我被那女孩吸引住了,她使我产生良好的感觉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
放大,扩大( amplify的过去式和过去分词 ); 增强; 详述
  • He amplified on his remarks with drawings and figures. 他用图表详细地解释了他的话。
  • He amplified the whole course of the incident. 他详述了事件的全过程。
学英语单词
abbots general
accepter for honour
Agulhas Basin
alpha geminorums
Amoebobacter
anaerogen
antichronically
atomic polarity
automatic compilation
ball joint inclination
benzyltributylammonium chloride
bid validity
blizzaster
Bothenhampton
brunisols
cardbroad
cascades frog
cervus unicolors
changes in inventories
Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont
cheapskates
cholepathia
chronic apicitis
connection weight
construction progress
contract baseline schedule
courtyn
crystal grown
dairy-free
deeded interest taxable
devs
discount allowed
Duncansby Head
facing head
flow constant
gesticulatingly
harvesters
have by the heels
heather grass
information trunk
intercipation
kosherizing
ksl
Kuratake
larimichthys polyactis
Larmor theorem
latent hyperopia
lisak
low-wattage
mechanical power transmission
metadata
micro-positioning
midcut
molybdenum series high speed tool steel
multi-echelon structure (physical distribution models)
musculus glutaeus profundus
nailbomber
Nathansohn's theory
pajamaless
pattullo
peace-keeping force
porencephalen
projective space of dimension n
Prokhorov
Proscorbin
pulse response
rebound curve
regulation of cut
residential demarcation
Rhodomicrobium
Rob Roys
Salix chingiana
see much of the world
sittin' pretty
spratling
starting crank jaw
statemant from creditor
step-type recording wave gauge
Sulfenterone
teleportative
theoretical appraisal
theory of suspended separation
thromboxan(e)
tippi
tool enrichment
totalley
traction
transistor notation
Trichoglottis rosea
turtle graphics
unethic
universal card
unloaded version
vibrating centre
vict'lar
volatile distillates
water aided injection molding
wave-amplitude
wheelmounted
yttrium nodular iron
zipi
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