Strain-sensitive ‘smart’ materials that can monitor their own strain and internal damage state.
Month: March 2018
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3D e-Whiskers for Complex Sensing Applications [Video]
A scalable method for fabricating electronic whiskers (e-whiskers)—a class of electronic skin—for sensing a variety of external stimuli, including proximity, texture mapping, surface roughness, material stiffness, force, and temperature.
Shining a Light on the Nicobar Pigeon
The iridescence of Nicobar pigeon plumage is put under the microscope.
Emerging Technologies, Markets and Commercialization of Solid Electrolytic Hydrogen Production
Hydrogen is now rapidly developing as a renewable fuel for both stationary and transport applications.
Water in Mountain Ecosystems with a Mediterranean Climate
Predicting and managing resources in a changing climate requires an understanding of plant-accessible subsurface water storage.
Copper Nanowire Hedgehogs: Nature-Inspired SERS Substrates
A broadband visible-light-driven photocatalytic SERS platform with the CuO nanowires (NWs)/Cu2O hetero-nanostructures as the backbone.
Drop-In Solar Fuels from Carbon Dioxide and Water: Performance Indicators
Various approaches for converting CO2 and H2O to liquid hydrocarbons using solar energy involve electro/photo/thermochemical catalytic processes and combinations thereof exist.
Printing Wearable Graphene Sensors
Graphene sensors with high-resolution features are produced on flexible tapes for wearable electronics via a simplified drop-cast-and-transfer process.
How Plasma Can Enhance 3D Printing
A team or Irish researchers evaluated the use of a barrel atmospheric plasma system for the treatment of the polymers acrylonitrile butadiene styrene and polylactic acid polymer particles used in 3D printing.
Carbon Nanotube Surfaces as Ultrafast Emitters
Carbon nanotube surfaces as ultrafast electron sources could influence the next generation of attosecond science and light-wave electronics research.
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