Team mimics spiders to make fibers for smart textiles

A new method produces strong, stretchy, electrically conductive, and recyclable soft fibers at room temperature and pressure.

National University of Singapore • futurity
July 12, 2023 ~9 min

Graphene is a proven supermaterial, but manufacturing the versatile form of carbon at usable scales remains a challenge

Graphene is superstrong and superconductive, and it has applications in everything from construction to electronics. But to date there have been almost no commercial uses of the material.

Kevin Wyss, PhD Student in Chemistry, Rice University • conversation
Nov. 29, 2022 ~9 min


Flexible AI computer chips promise wearable health monitors that protect privacy

A type of computer chip that mimics both the skin and brain could pave the way for wearable devices that monitor and analyze health data using AI right on the body.

Sihong Wang, Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering • conversation
Nov. 17, 2022 ~5 min

Washable, wearable battery-like devices could be woven directly into clothes

Washable, wearable ‘batteries’: based on cheap, safe and environmentally-friendly inks and woven directly into fabrics, have been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 16, 2019 ~4 min

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