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
A display
Abakan River
Abbay
air pumped storage electric machine
analyze
atria of lungs
Benjamin Jowett
big opening easy open lid production line
Bragg-Williams approximation
build operation
business-to-employee
cantly
capability factor
cardigan jacket
certification pilot
charactered material reserve
check girl
chorioid tela
classical orthogonal signal
coboundary
conesthesia
consumption-income sequence
crisis management plan
cyclopic anophthalmia
Dawkinite
delivery bridle
dimethylirigenin
disease-free seed
distribution mix
document processing
electron transport phosphorylation
equilibrium at rest
farder
fastness to laundering
ferric red oxide
finger-to-finger test
flame on
fluridone
frequency shift receiver
genus riparias
grandparenthood
half-pricest
haul forward
ibou
layered vessel
lighting generator
longitudinal covering
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron
magnesia chrome
mamar
mastigopus
meditatios
modist
mokoro
mold unloading
non-computational
not care a fuck
optometer
Orthidina
pasvik
plunger type control valve
poikilocythemia
position telemeter
programatic
programmer-defined symbol
projectionless
public liability
pulsescope
radio-collared
Ram's horn figure
reentry funnel
registrarship
regreded
reversed rolling moment
road rash
saiodine
save one's pocket
seedbed frame
SELinux
shipping kilometre
skirt response
small intestinal stasis syndrome
squadder
stillwater performance
sucking-pad
superscreen
supervisory activity
tc-99m
terbium peroxide
theriacal
three roll type coiler
three-unit code
thymasin
Toleration, Edict of
tracheo-esophagology
Unrealized Loss
unreken
violon
wait-time
What Not to Wear
X-ray technic-film
yoohoos