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Electronic skin stretched to new limits

18.06.2018 | KAUST | www.kaust.edu.sa/en

An electrically conductive hydrogel that takes stretchability, self-healing and strain sensitivity to new limits has been developed at KAUST. “Our material outperforms all previously reported…

This is what a stretchy circuit looks like

15.06.2018 | Phys.org | www.phys.org

Researchers in China have made a new hybrid conductive material—part elastic polymer, part liquid metal—that can be bent and stretched at will. Circuits made with this material can take most two…

This is what a stretchy circuit looks like

Silicon-perovskite solar cells achieve record efficiency of 25.2%

13.06.2018 | EPFL | www.epfl.ch/index.en.html

Researchers from EPFL and CSEM have combined silicon- and perovskite-based solar cells. The resulting efficiency of 25.2% is a record for this type of tandem cell. Their innovative yet simple…

Silicon-perovskite solar cells achieve record efficiency of 25.2%

Rutgers Physicists Create New Class of 2D Artificial Materials

11.06.2018 | Rutgers University | www.rutgers.edu

For decades, scientists thought it would be impossible to prove the theory by Philip W. Anderson, who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in physics that says that ferroelectric metals could conduct…

Rutgers Physicists Create New Class of 2D Artificial Materials

A Process for Capturing CO2 from the Atmosphere

08.06.2018 | Cell Press | www.cell.com

Someday, the gasoline you buy might trace its heritage to carbon dioxide pulled straight out of the sky rather than from oil pumped out of the ground. By removing emitted carbon dioxide from the…

A Process for Capturing CO2 from the Atmosphere

Transparent, Conductive Films Promising for Developing Flexible Screens

07.06.2018 | Optical Society | www.osa.org

Researchers have demonstrated large-scale fabrication of a new type of transparent conductive electrode film based on nanopatterned silver.

Transparent, Conductive Films Promising for Developing Flexible Screens

A 3-D printer that can print data sets as physical objects

04.06.2018 | Phys.org | www.phys.org

A team of researchers from MIT and Harvard University has come up with a way to get 3-D printers to print objects using data sets rather than geometric representations. In their paper published on…

A 3-D printer that can print data sets as physical objects

Scientists develop material that could regenerate dental enamel

01.06.2018 | Phys.org | www.phys.org

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have developed a new way to grow mineralised materials which could regenerate hard tissues such as dental enamel and bone.

Scientists develop material that could regenerate dental enamel

Engineers design color-changing compression bandage

30.05.2018 | MIT | web.mit.edu

Compression therapy is a standard form of treatment for patients who suffer from venous ulcers and other conditions in which veins struggle to return blood from the lower extremities. Compression…

Engineers design color-changing compression bandage

An elastic fiber set to revolutionize smart clothes

28.05.2018 | EPFL | www.epfl.ch/index.en.html

EPFL scientists have found a fast and simple way to make super-elastic, multi-material, high-performance fibers. Their fibers have already been used as sensors on robotic fingers and in clothing.…

An elastic fiber set to revolutionize smart clothes

Ingestible “bacteria on a chip” could help diagnose disease

25.05.2018 | MIT | web.mit.edu

MIT researchers have built an ingestible sensor equipped with genetically engineered bacteria that can diagnose bleeding in the stomach or other gastrointestinal problems.

Ingestible “bacteria on a chip” could help diagnose disease

New Teco building shows a sample solution for energy-efficient buildings

25.05.2018 | Teco a.s. | www.tecomat.com

We have presented a sample concept of extermely energy-efficient building, equipped by our control system Tecomat Foxtrot. This concept is our own manufacturing and administative building in Kolin…

New Teco building shows a sample solution for energy-efficient buildings

UCLA engineer develops 3D printer that can create complex biological tissues

24.05.2018 | UCLA | www.ucla.edu

UCLA bioengineer has developed a technique that uses a specially adapted 3D printer to build therapeutic biomaterials from multiple materials. The advance could be a step toward on-demand printing of…

UCLA engineer develops 3D printer that can create complex biological tissues

Flexible, highly efficient multimodal energy harvesting

24.05.2018 | Penn State University | www.psu.edu

A 10-fold increase in the ability to harvest mechanical and thermal energy over standard piezoelectric composites may be possible using a piezoelectric ceramic foam supported by a flexible polymer…