A tiny battery built into smart contact lenses produces its own power through eye blinking, relying on tears and oxygen to power its cells.
Advanced Materials Technologies
Wireless, wearable sensor created for deep-tissue monitoring
A team led by Wubin Bai developed a novel wearable sensor patch that provides a safe, real-time, less invasive and low-cost way to track a patient’s recovery.
Smart knitted garments monitor the heart
Wearable devices for health monitoring don’t have to be limited to just smart watches and fitness trackers.
Evaluating the filtering performance of facial masks
It’s well understood that any mask reduces the transmission of viral particles but some are more effective than others.
New technique breaks the mold for 3D printing medical implants
Researchers have flipped traditional 3D printing to create some of the most intricate biomedical structures yet.
Microneedle patch delivers antibiotics locally in the skin
A microneedle patch that delivers antibiotics directly into the affected skin area could help treat deadly bacterial infections.
Brain implants with a short and sweet solution
Pudding-like implants with a sugar-based delivery system show promise in reducing the foreign body response against brain implants.
Low temperature, scalable manufacturing of flexible energy harvesters
A simple approach to create high performance thermoelectric materials, which would allow one to turn their body heat into electricity.
“Robotic snake” can grip and pick up objects
Researchers in Australia take inspiration from nature to create a soft-robotic gripper that moves away from the conventional hand-like design.
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A new manufacturing technique creates ultrathin solar cells that are so light and flexible that they can rest on the surface of a soap bubble.
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