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Chemistry World
March 27, 2012
Laura Howes |
Temporary tattoo to give you the sporting edge This Saturday, Nascar racer Paulie Harraka will be using a device based on John Rogers work at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign to monitor his hydration levels as he races.   |
Chemistry World
October 17, 2010
Laura Howes |
Twist and shine An international team of researchers has developed flexible sheets of tiny light emitting diodes that could be implanted under the skin like glowing tattoos and used in a range of biomedical applications. |
Chemistry World
December 12, 2014
Anthony King |
Smart skin for prosthetic limbs senses heat and touch This new stretchable prosthetic skin comes equipped with ultra-thin, single crystalline silicon nanoribbon sensors for strain, pressure and temperature, as well as humidity sensors, heaters and stretchable multi-electrode arrays for nerve stimulation. |
PC Magazine
March 10, 2004
Alexandra Robbins |
Beyond Sensible Shoes Smart Skin, still in development, is made of a flexible material embedded with microsensors that mimic the signal sending of nerve cells. The sensors, which wirelessly communicate with receiving devices, can already monitor temperature and infrared radiation and are expected to detect pressure, touch, and even vital signs. |
Chemistry World
June 1, 2012
Emma Shiells |
Electronic skin for health and security checks Scientists in the US have developed an electrochemical sensor incorporated into a temporary transfer tattoo to be used as a device to warn the wearer of any health or security threats. |
Chemistry World
July 30, 2012
Phillip Broadwith |
Flexible hairy heartbeat sensor Korean scientists have developed a skin-like flexible strain sensor made from interlocking forests of nanofibers. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2004
Cade Metz |
Smart Skin The prototypeof this product has already demonstrated that it can monitor infrared radiation, which means it's also capable of tracking changes in body temperature. Future versions will respond to all sorts of other stimuli, such as touch and pressure. |
Chemistry World
January 8, 2014
Simon Hadlington |
Flexible electronics get even more bendy Researchers in Switzerland have developed a method to create electronic membranes that are thin and flexible enough to wrap around a human hair. |
Chemistry World
April 4, 2014
Charlotte Still |
Power up with body heat A thermoelectric generator that converts body heat into electricity could make replacing or recharging batteries in wearable electronics a task of the past. |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2006 |
Bits & Bites v25n2 Researchers have produced a stretchable type of silicon that could lead to stretchable electronic gadgets, artificial muscles and tissues, and flexible skins for robotic sensors. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Prachi Patel-Predd |
Sensitive Synthetic Skin in the Works for Prosthetic Arms Carbon nanotubes key to making synthetic skin that lets artificial limbs sense heat and touch. |
Chemistry World
March 18, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Electronic tag dissolves in water A water soluble radio-frequency identification tag that can melt away in a matter of minutes has been developed in John Rogers' lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the US. |
Chemistry World
November 27, 2013
Michael Gross |
MEDIC to kick-start personalised medicine revolution A sensor that can continuously monitor the concentration of a drug in the bloodstream is set to help personalized medicine take off. |
Chemistry World
March 27, 2008
Kira Welter |
Silicon Circuits do the Twist Silicon circuits that can be bent, stretched and twisted without breaking or losing their electronic properties have been developed by US scientists. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Willie D. Jones |
Electronic Circuits That Bend and Stretch U.S. scientists claim they have developed an improved plastic circuit that is not only flexible but also stretchable and foldable. |
Chemistry World
September 14, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Artificial skin gets touchy New ways of incorporating pressure sensors into large, flexible surfaces which could one day provide robots or people fitted with artificial hands with a delicate sense of touch |
Technology Research News
September 22, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Flexible Sensors Make Robot Skin Researchers have devised pressure-sensor arrays that promise to give objects like rugs and robots the equivalent of one aspect of skin -- pressure sensitivity. |
Technology Research News
July 28, 2004 |
Process prints silicon on plastic The components could be used in flexible large-area displays, radiofrequency ID tags, sensors, and flexible applications like reconfigurable antennas. |
Chemistry World
February 10, 2014
Polly Wilson |
Putting the power in power-dressing Scientists in the UK developing wearable electronics have knitted a flexible fabric that delivers twice the power output of current energy harvesting textiles. |
Technology Research News
September 10, 2003 |
Nano thermometer withstands heat Researchers from Japan have fashioned nano thermometers with an especially large temperature range from a magnesium oxide nanotubes filled with liquid gallium. The tiny thermometers are between 20 and 60 nanometers thick, or about one hundredth the diameter of a red blood cell. |
American Family Physician
October 15, 2003 |
Eczema What is eczema?... What can I do to control my eczema?... |
CIO
April 15, 2001
Sara Shay |
Mercury Rising Quantifying natural phenomena was all the rage among early-17th-century scientists. As they grappled with measuring heat and cold, several came up with the thermoscope... |
Chemistry World
December 17, 2010
James Mitchell Crow |
Drug delivery: from needles to nanorods? Gold nanorods warmed by beams of infrared light could be the ideal way to deliver drugs through the skin, researchers in Japan have discovered. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2007 |
Market for Computer-Based `Smart Clothing' May Reach $700 Million by 2010 The smart fabrics and interactive textiles (SFIT) and wearables markets is roughly $400 million today in fragmented, unprofitable revenue, and may reach $700 million in break-even or marginally profitable revenue by 2010, say analysts |
American Family Physician
March 1, 2007 |
Eczema: What You Should Know A patient guide: What is eczema?... What can I do to control my eczema?... |
Technology Research News
March 10, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Tiny pumps drive liquid circuits Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories have combined microfluidics and organic electronics to make a tunable plastic transistor that could enable low-cost methods to drive, control and monitor labs-on-a-chip. The device can also use tiny amounts of fluid to adjust optical devices. |
Chemistry World
January 9, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
A Nanotech Solution to Wrinkled Skin Researchers who have discovered that nanoparticles prevent thin polymer films from buckling say their concept could be applied to stop human skin wrinkling too. |
Chemistry World
July 20, 2015
Carolyn Devlin |
Energy devices go wireless Scientists in China have developed a new method for connecting energy devices without using wires. Not only are the devices easy to make, they continue to work even when bent or twisted -- a vital trait for flexible electronics. |
Chemistry World
September 11, 2009
Nina Notman |
Photographing flexible electronics Scientists in Germany have taken inspiration from photography to develop a fast, room temperature route to making flexible electronic components, which could lead to low cost flexible solar cells and other flexible electronic devices. |
Home Toys
April 2005
Frank Geissler |
Now, Your Home Will Call You When There's a Problem While away, temperatures in your home or business will be carefully monitored, and you will automatically be notified via telephone whenever there is a dramatic on-site change in ambient temperature or other conditions. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2008 |
DARPA Looks to Sensors Unlimited to Develop Next-Generation Night-Vision Technology The night-vision sensor technology will be for helmet-mounted and micro vehicle applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2004 |
Air Force Eyes Combination Infrared Camera and Communications Device U.S. Air Force scientists are looking to Sensors Unlimited Inc. to develop a smart, multifunction, dual-wavelength combination video camera and communications tool for night-vision surveillance and reconnaissance applications. |
Chemistry World
July 24, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Nanotube mesh boosts plastic electronics Circuits on light, flexible surfaces could provide a range of products from paper-thin displays to intelligent food packaging and smart clothing. |
National Defense
October 2015
Allyson Versprille |
Army, Industry Partner to Test Burn Treatment Biotechnology company Amarantus Biological Holdings is partnering with the U.S. Army to advance clinical testing for a product to treat severe burns. |
