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Reaearchers from Texas A&M demonstrate a process to apply a super gas barrier to plastic packaging films using only polymers in a water-based solution
Robot Skin with Advanced Gripping Skills
In this Advanced Materials Technologies article, researchers demonstrate for the first time a rapid manufacturing process and taxel geometry to create a large area, all-elastomer robot skin
Smart Liquid Windows
Glass-glass fluidic devices for large-area integration with adaptive façades and smart windows
Nylon muscles bend it like…the guys from MIT
Researchers from MIT present an approach to make artificial muscles with nylon that bend, controllably, in any direction.
Fast and precise metal cutting
Jenoptik’s new laser cutting machine Votan ranks among the most precise systems in its class.
An All-Organic Elastomeric Electret Composite
An all organic elastic electret is prepared with a piezoelectric coefficient comparable to the gold standard – poly(vinylidene fluoride.
Gecko inspires pick-and-place gripper
Cross-linked networks of liquid crystal polymers (LCNs) are used to regulate adhesion through stimuli responsive back-scrolling and self-peeling, to design a multi-legged gecko gripper.
Hybrid full-cell capacitors demonstrated with dramatic improvements in energy density
Researchers from Korea have demonstrated high-performance hybrid full-cell capacitors on new paradigm structures for anode and cathode electrodes
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