Skin-friendly epidermal electronic devices fabricated using flexible, stretchable, and degradable protein-based substrates could offer a viable solution to real-time health and fitness monitoring.
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Pushing the Limits of Technology to Enhance Electronic Skins
Researchers create a soft robotic electronic skin with fingerprint-like patterns with future applications in prosthesis, wearable sensors, and medical devices.
The Future of Cloaking Devices: Digital Coding Metasurfaces
Digital coding metasurfaces simultaneously manipulate both electromagnetic and acoustic waves for advanced cloaking or signaling devices.
Electronics that Imitate Life: A Sensing Robotic Hand
Intrinsic or tightly integrated sensing, actuation, and computation embedded into 3D structures could enable a new generation of truly smart and complex systems, such as robots that have human-like dexterity.
Whiskey-Phase Exfoliation: A Golden Future for Electronics?
A new study reports liquid-phase exfoliation of graphene, boron nitride, and tungsten disulphide nanosheets using Irish whiskey.
Liquid Metals to Accurately Monitor Human Motion
Thin, soft, and stretchable gallium-based sensors to accurately monitor human hand kinematics.
Invisible High-Resolution Fingerprint Sensors
A 0.2 mm thick sensor that can read fingerprints with incredible detail by detecting visible light reflected from the surface of the skin.
The Success of Plasma for Microfabrication in Electronics
New plasma techniques are contributing to the rapid development of new micro-electromechanical systems.
A Nano-Scale Graphene Accelerometer
Graphene forms the basis of the world’s smallest accelerometer a team of scientists in Sweden and Germany has recently developed
Plasma Improves Printing of Fine Structures Using Nano Inks
Plasma printing pre-treatment contributes to increased print resolution with conductive nano inks on flexible polymer substrates.
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