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
adaptive computer-aided control
Administrative Law of The United States
after current
agar disk method
agonistic behavior
air-space calbe
allowable unit stress for torsion
ariane rocket
Beaumont, Francis
Bellinl's ligament
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castle bruce
check dam?
Cinnamomum caudiferum
clear format
clerks of the Court
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concession contract
conditional payoff matrix
confide in sb
cysticercus ovis
decreasing pitch screw
diaphragm regulator
dip counter
direct lift winch equipment
disposal capacity
dubose
ectaras
edem
email authentication
even spray nozzle
evolutionary pattern
excommuned
extended master terminal routine
factory worker
ferrite number
Fuencaliente, Pta.de
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fusicladium theae hara
general freighter
go beyong the law
Guesclin
gutierrezias
Heave away!
high carbon iron
high stumped budding
impulsive force of mud flow
Indian Plate
intergranular structure
internal rate of return on investment
Ironside Glacier
Jefferson R.
Kimblesworth
Kinnarfjall
lap against
loading schedule
longitudinal field type
Maboma
maltdrier
maneuvering basin
many a time
meat hooks
MONOCENTRIDIDAE
Moy R.
musical notes
natural sedimentation method
needlescope
neoviridogrisein
nor'westers
Northwest Germanic
Notodelphyoida
novorapid
NPAR (nuclear plant aging research)
oil thermostat
overall neutron transport
photomultiplier tube
pingles
plate rudder
platypoeciluss
precast concrete lintel
printing-out-paper
pugnacity
push button top
ratran system
sakheim
secondary hyperthyrodidsm
seven-day disease
sharecrop
source holder
storax pill
strict simple ordering
structure design specification
supercurvature
Taraxacum junpeianum
telegraphic office
The best of it is
U-ore of chlorite type
ultrasonic Doppler blood flowmeter
underwater television system
unilateral agreement
unscientifically
Yanghwa-ri