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Tactile sensors from auxetic mechanical metamaterials for sensitive wearables and prosthetics
Engineers have developed tactile sensors with increased sensitivity, thanks to auxetic mechanical metamaterials.
Surfactants Steer Supraparticle Structure
pH-responsive surfactants enable control over buckled supraparticle formation in emulsion-based systems.
Walking on Air: Pneumatic System Enables Autonomous Motion in Soft Robots
Robot fabrication in a single step with a desktop 3D printer and pressurised gas.
Turning Periods into Power: Menstrual Blood a Valuable Resource for Medical Diagnostics
Wearable sensors help women analyse menstrual blood for affordable, non-invasive health monitoring.
Methods Perspectives: Magnetic Force Microscope Calibration Explored by Héctor Corte-León
Héctor Corte-León explores the advantages and disadvantages of the different techniques used to calibrate a magnetic force microscope.
Kirigami-inspired neural probes are a cut above
The flexible and foldable 3D probes were surprisingly durable when inserted into brain tissue to map the deep functioning of neurons.
Working close to robots could be safer with cutting-edge Kirigami e-skin
The sensitive e-skin robotic coating applies ultrasonics and AI while taking its inspiration from the Japanese art of Kirigami.
Water-powered gadgets may be on the horizon thanks to new evaporation-based energy device
Scientists created an “evapolectrics” generator that draws power directly from water evaporation, offering a sustainable, battery-free energy source from humidity.
Organic materials bring probabilistic computing closer to reality
Scientists created flexible probabilistic bits from custom polymers, offering a new, energy-efficient path for AI and machine learning using classical physics.
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