U.S. Air Force scientists developed liquid metal

[longknife]

For use in an incredible variety of ways.

Conductive materials change their properties as they are strained or stretched. Typically, electrical conductivity decreases and resistance increases with stretching.

The material recently developed by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) scientists, called Polymerized Liquid Metal Networks, does just the opposite. These liquid metal networks can be strained up to 700%, autonomously respond to that strain to keep the resistance between those two states virtually the same, and still return to their original state. It is all due to the self-organized nanostructure within the material that performs these responses automatically.

It’s being done through universities and private companies and is available to the world.

More @ U.S. Air Force scientists developed liquid metal which autonomously changes structure – Defence Blog

 

[Frannie]

For use in an incredible variety of ways.

Conductive materials change their properties as they are strained or stretched. Typically, electrical conductivity decreases and resistance increases with stretching.

The material recently developed by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) scientists, called Polymerized Liquid Metal Networks, does just the opposite. These liquid metal networks can be strained up to 700%, autonomously respond to that strain to keep the resistance between those two states virtually the same, and still return to their original state. It is all due to the self-organized nanostructure within the material that performs these responses automatically.

It’s being done through universities and private companies and is available to the world.

More @ U.S. Air Force scientists developed liquid metal which autonomously changes structure – Defence Blog

Well if it says so on the internet, it's verified right?

Why wouldn't this fall under DARPA?

If it was developed by and for the air force, why is it available for all, meaning the Russian and Chinese air force?

Duh

What was it PT Barnum said?

 

[Frannie]

For use in an incredible variety of ways.

Conductive materials change their properties as they are strained or stretched. Typically, electrical conductivity decreases and resistance increases with stretching.

The material recently developed by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) scientists, called Polymerized Liquid Metal Networks, does just the opposite. These liquid metal networks can be strained up to 700%, autonomously respond to that strain to keep the resistance between those two states virtually the same, and still return to their original state. It is all due to the self-organized nanostructure within the material that performs these responses automatically.

It’s being done through universities and private companies and is available to the world.

More @ U.S. Air Force scientists developed liquid metal which autonomously changes structure – Defence Blog

Does anyone have a use for stretchable electrical connections, where the wires are strained up to 700 percent?

Perhaps wire guided missiles which should be obsolete anyway

Because if not this is a pet rock