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.
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Engineering Digest: Featuring Materials Made via 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, Quantum Dots, and More
This month’s Advanced Engineering Materials covers and top papers!
Printing Touch Sensing Capabilities
Researchers create soft robots that can sense touch, pressure, movement and temperature.
Geometry- and Topology-Controlled Nanoarchitectures: Focussed Session
An interplay between two realms is the subject of the Focussed Session: Geometry- and Topology-Controlled Nanoarchitectures at the Joint Meeting of DPG (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft) and EPS (European Physical Society) Condensed Matter Divisions on March 13, 2018 at the TU Berlin.
Metamorphic Electronics: Stretching into Complex Forms
Metamorphic and stretchable electronics applications were developed by researchers from the Technical University of Ilmenau, which enable new 3D shapes and new form factors for electronics applications.
3D Printing of Metallic Materials
Additive Industries and SMS group jointly develop a production system for additive manufacturing of metals in industrial scale.
Coming Soon: TACNET 4.0
14 companies and organizations have combined forces in TACNET 4.0 – Tactile Internet, a project to create a standard system for real time industrial communications.
Artificial Muscle is Light-Triggered, Redox-Actuated
A photoinduced redox reaction is used to cause the contraction of an artificial hydrogel muscle, leading to macroscale actuation and measurable work.
Light-Responsive Pens: Actuated Soft Materials for Nanolithography
Local control of pens in a large-scale pen array can be achieved by using a nanotube composite that is photo-responsive to fabricate each individual pen.
Synthetic Macromolecular Machines
A special issue in Macromolecular Rapid Communications guest-edited by David Bléger and Rafal Klajn highlights the diverse ways by which molecular switches can be incorporated into macromolecular architectures.
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