Search results for wearable electronics

Materials Science Nov 17, 2016

A non-covalent-bonding method for making organic semiconductors that are stretchable and healable

(Phys.org)—A large team of researchers from the U.S., Japan and South Korea has developed a non-covalent-bonding method to produce high-performance organic semiconductors that are stretchable and healable. In their paper ...

Engineering Feb 18, 2014

Unobtrusive, wearable blood pressure sensor for long-term continuous monitoring

A team of researchers in Korea have developed a wearable blood pressure sensor that is sufficiently compact and unobtrusive which can be used to provide long-term continuous monitoring without affecting the daily activities ...

Bio & Medicine Nov 20, 2023

Team uses gold nanowires to develop wearable sensor that measures two bio-signals

A research team led by Professor Sei Kwang Hahn and Dr. Tae Yeon Kim from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) used gold nanowires to develop an integrated ...

Bio & Medicine Sep 28, 2023

Wearable aptamer nanobiosensor wirelessly monitors estrogen in sweat

The sex hormone commonly known as estrogen plays an important role in multiple aspects of women's health and fertility. High levels of estrogen in the body are associated with breast and ovarian cancers, while low levels ...

Nanomaterials May 4, 2021

Researchers develop new graphite-based sensor technology for wearable medical devices

Researchers at AMBER, the SFI Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research, and from Trinity's School of Physics, have developed next-generation, graphene-based sensing technology using their innovative G-Putty ...

General Physics Apr 21, 2020

Organic memory devices show promise for flexible, wearable, personalized computing

The advent of artificial intelligence, machine learning and the internet of things is expected to change modern electronics and bring forth the fourth Industrial Revolution. The pressing question for many researchers is how ...

Nanophysics Apr 13, 2018

The raw power of human motion

Autonomy is a much-anticipated feature of next-generation microsystems, such as remote sensors, wearable electronic gadgets, implantable biosensors and nanorobots. KAUST researchers led by Husam Alshareef, Jr-Hau He and Khaled ...

Polymers Feb 6, 2023

New polymers could enable better wearable devices

Certain electronics that integrate with the human body—a smartwatch that samples your sweat, for instance—work by converting the ion-based signals of biological tissue into the electron-based signals used in transistors. ...

Nanomaterials Jul 29, 2021

Scientists create UV-enabled flexible wearable technology

To enable the development of wearable devices that possess advanced ultraviolet (UV) detection functions, scientists from NTU Singapore have created a new type of light sensor that is both flexible and highly sensitive.While ...

Materials Science Nov 26, 2018

Manufacturing open-mesoporous carbon nanofibers for flexible and wearable power sources

With the recently increasing development of lightweight, portable, flexible and wearable electronics for health and biomedical devices, there is an urgent need to explore new power sources with higher flexibility and human/tissue-adaptability. ...

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