Others are more optimistic, especially in the light of advances in engineering and materials science since the last attempt - notably in lightweight carbon fibre composites and energy-dense batteries.

其他人比他乐观得多，尤其是自从上次尝试以来，我们在工程和材料学方面又有了更多启发——值得一提的是我们发明了轻质碳纤维化合物和高能量密度电池。

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I'm doing Mechanical Engineering which is really interesting but it covers quite a lot of areas like materials science, machine design, physics and of course mechanics.

我学的是机械工程，这很有趣，但它涵盖了很多领域，比如材料科学、机械设计、物理，当然还有机械学。

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This provides a key piece of missing functionality for the original camera concept, says John Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

伊利诺伊大学厄本纳-香槟分校材料科学与工程的John Rogers教授说，这项技术让曲面摄像头有机会拥有传统摄像头的功能。

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"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications, " said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).

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Ankit Kumar, a materials science and engineering graduate student at UCLA Engineering was the paper's second author.

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