Video: Stanford researchers developing 'electronic' skin
The Speaking of Chemistry summer road trip continues through the Golden State.
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News tagged with electronic skin
'Octopus-like' skin can stretch, sense touch, and emit light (w/ Video)
A health care robot that displays a patient's temperature and pulse, and even reacts to a patient's mood.
Engineering
Mar 3, 2016
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Self-healing sensor brings 'electronic skin' closer to reality
Flexible sensors have been developed for use in consumer electronics, robotics, health care, and space flight. Future possible applications could include the creation of 'electronic skin' and prosthetic limbs that allow wearers ...
Engineering
Nov 19, 2015
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QLEDs meet wearable devices
The scientific team, from the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and Seoul National University, has developed an ultra-thin wearable quantum dot light emitting diodes (QLEDs).
Nanophysics
Jun 2, 2015
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Researchers explain skin fusion at a molecular level
Scientists from the Goethe University (GU) Frankfurt, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg and the University of Zurich explain skin fusion at a molecular level and pinpoint the specific molecules that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 21, 2015
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Geckos found able to expel all manner of fluids and their skin can kill bacteria
(Phys.org)—A multinational team of researchers that recently published a paper describing how they had used a scanning electron microscope to discover that gecko skin actually ejects water into the air has now published ...
Geckos found to have skin mechanism that flings off water (w/ video)
A small team of researchers with members from institutions in Australia and the U.K. has found that in addition to being able to walk on walls, at last one type of gecko has a skin feature that causes water to be thrown off ...
Researchers equip humans with magnetic sense
Scientists from Germany and Japan have developed a new magnetic sensor, which is thin, robust and pliable enough to be smoothly adapted to human skin, even to the most flexible part of the human palm. This is feeding the ...
General Physics
Feb 3, 2015
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New 'electronic skin' for prosthetics, robotics detects pressure from different directions
Touch can be a subtle sense, but it communicates quickly whether something in our hands is slipping, for example, so we can tighten our grip. For the first time, scientists report the development of a stretchable "electronic ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 10, 2014
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'Electronic skin' could improve early breast cancer detection
For detecting cancer, manual breast exams seem low-tech compared to other methods such as MRI. But scientists are now developing an "electronic skin" that "feels" and images small lumps that fingers can miss. Knowing the ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 10, 2014
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