A high-performance, flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator is fabricated to convert mechanical energy into electricity that can power a variety of devices.
Multiplex FRET Biosensor Simplifies Nucleic Acid Detection
Time-gated FRET-based biosensors allow the quantification of multiple nucleic acids at low nanomolar concentrations using just a single donor–acceptor pair.
Special Issue on Quantitative Phase Imaging for Label-Free Cytometry
A Special Issue that reports on the latest technical developments in QPI used to study the mechanisms of cancer and neurodegenerative disorders, to develop multispecific pharmaceutical formulations, and as a robust segmentation technology for microbial cells.
Versatile Electronic Skins for Motion Detection of Joints
The human skin is an organ with amazing sensory properties. It can pick up a variety of sensations from its environment. Mimicking those properties in wearable electronics skins would offer a variety of applications for human–machine communication— imagine if you...
Perovskites Play New Tricks
The continued development of piezoelectric materials has led to a huge market of products (image credit: Csaba Deli/Shutterstock).
3D Printing a Tactile Sensor on a Fingertip
Complex multi-material tactile sensors can be printed in situ; a new route toward the biointegration of various sensors in wearable electronics.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – May 2017
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Wearable Devices using Off-the-Shelf, Plain-Woven Fabrics
Researchers develop a vapor-coating technique to produce wearable electronic devices from conducting-polymer-coated off-the-shelf, plain-woven fabrics.
Feeling the Pulse with Printed PLEDs
Accurate pulse and oxygenation data can be obtained through multicolor PLEDs on one flexible substrate fabricated by a surface energy patterning assisted blade coating technique.
Drone Flying is a New Method for Monitoring River Habitats
Monitoring the quality and distribution of physical habitat parameters in rivers, such as water depth, grain size and flow velocity, is vital for species survival.