A new material may be the key to quickly flag damaged infrastructure. This material offers a way to reduce the manpower required to regularly monitor structures that undergo daily use such as bridges. Compared to previous methods, this environmentally friendly material boasts the ability to operate without a power supply, and store information about previous incidents of mechanical stress. The application of this mechanoluminescent material is expected to make it easier and less costly to assess the safety of structures we may use in our everyday lives.
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Researchers studied how temperatures up to 500 degrees Celsius would affect electronics made from gallium nitride, a key step in their effort to develop electronics that can operate in extremely hot environments, like the surface of Venus.