Sentences with phrase «flexible devices in»
Plastic Logic may make fully flexible devices in the future, says Sirringhaus.
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Best of all, it comes with built - in Bluetooth and Wi - Fi to make it a truly flexible wireless device.
The cable type that's long powered Android phones (among many other devices) has slowly but surely given way to the newer, more flexible USB - C standard in recent months.
Dr Eric Topol talks with pioneering researcher John Rogers about how his flexible electronic devices are being used in medicine and what further developments lie ahead.
Printpack is a major converter of flexible and specialty rigid packaging for the world's biggest brand owners in the food and beverage industry as well as the household, lawn and garden, personal care, pet foods, tobacco, towel and tissue, and medical device markets.
This will include Dr James Stern from Albis discussing plastics in healthcare applications, Professor Alexander Seifalian of The London BioScience Innovation Centre covering the development of medical devices using graphene nanomaterials and Lorna O'Gara from Ultrapolymers explaining polymer innovation in healthcare and inter-material replacement for flexible applications.
European leader in the design and production of flexible bags and medical devices, Technoflex assists the largest pharmaceutical companies for over 40 years.
Formed in 1994 as a council of the Flexible Packaging Association, the Sterilization Packaging Manufacturers Council (SPMC) specializes in packaging for the medical device industry and is comprised of members of the Flexible Packaging Association.
The technique could also be used to clean surfaces without harsh solvents, and could be adapted to peel films used in ultrathin electronic devices, such as solar panels, flexible screens or wearable sensors.
In a four - hour operation at the University of Florida Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, the surgeons replaced part of the ankle joint with a flexible plastic device about the size of a clothespin, normally used as an artificial joint in the big toes of humanIn a four - hour operation at the University of Florida Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, the surgeons replaced part of the ankle joint with a flexible plastic device about the size of a clothespin, normally used as an artificial joint in the big toes of humanin the big toes of humans.
In 2008, at a materials science conference in Boston, Dagdeviren approached John Rogers, whom she describes as a «king of flexible devices.&raquIn 2008, at a materials science conference in Boston, Dagdeviren approached John Rogers, whom she describes as a «king of flexible devices.&raquin Boston, Dagdeviren approached John Rogers, whom she describes as a «king of flexible devices.»
In addition to being light and flexible, it can extract electrical energy from human blood and sweat, making the device potentially usable as a power source for tiny medical devices inside the human body.
The thin profile and minimal energy requirements of devices could also make it useful in flexible displays or as a security measure on credit cards.
Such soft, flexible battery - like devices, described online December 13 in Nature, could power soft robots or next - gen wearable and implantable tech.
This superthin, 2 - D material — incredibly strong, flexible and light — could have diverse applications in areas that include biomedical devices and consumer tech.
Because the new, smaller, devices are flexible and can be held in place with sutures, they also may have potential uses in or around the bladder, stomach, intestines, heart or other organs, according to co-principal investigator John A. Rogers, PhD, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois.
Folding up a single sheet of graphene according to the principles of the Japanese art of origami could result in tiny devices like nano - robots and flexible circuits
Furthermore, as the TUM researchers report in their latest papers, such devices can be fabricated on flexible backing materials through large - area, low - cost processes.
It could also create a new area of soft robotics, and enable new applications in flexible sensors and actuators, biomedical devices and platforms or scaffolds for cells to grow, Lee said.
In addition, the flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator could also be utilized as an electrical source for various implantable medical devices.»
In particular, flexible magnetic memory devices have attracted a lot of attention as they are the fundamental component required for data storage and processing in wearable electronics and biomedical devices, which require various functions such as wireless communication, information storage and code processinIn particular, flexible magnetic memory devices have attracted a lot of attention as they are the fundamental component required for data storage and processing in wearable electronics and biomedical devices, which require various functions such as wireless communication, information storage and code processinin wearable electronics and biomedical devices, which require various functions such as wireless communication, information storage and code processing.
They also put the aerogel in a circuit with an LED and found it could potentially work as a component of a flexible device.
Flexible tuning of bandgap is extremely desirable in semiconductor - based devices.»
Researchers in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa (Israel), who were inspired by the healing properties in human skin, have developed materials that can be integrated into flexible devices to «heal» incidental scratches or damaging cuts that might compromise device functionality.
«We already know how to put electronics on the skin in a natural manner — here our challenge was dealing with fluid flow and the collection, storage and analysis of sweat in a thin, soft and flexible device,» said Huang, who worked on the device's design and optimization.
The PTMA is in a class of electrically active polymers that could bring inexpensive transparent solar cells; antistatic and antiglare coatings for cellphone displays; antistatic coverings for aircraft to protect against lightning strikes; flexible flash drives; and thermoelectric devices, which generate electricity from heat.
Previously developed in Rogers» Northwestern Engineering laboratory, the soft, flexible device sits on the skin and measures sweat to determine how the body responds to exercise.
«Because they remain flexible and structurally consistent over their length, the fibers can also be woven into a crossing pattern into clothing for wearable devices in smart textiles.»
«So we could use it in the future by taking traditional speakers, which are big, bulky and use a lot of power, and replacing them with this very flexible, thin, small device.»
A paper - thin, flexible device created at Michigan State University not only can generate energy from human motion, it can act as a loudspeaker and microphone as well, nanotechnology researchers report in the May 16 edition of Nature Communications.
A flexible silicon mount kept the device in place, while a wire transmitted data to a computer.
«The ability to suture a thread - based diagnostic device intimately in a tissue or organ environment in three dimensions adds a unique feature that is not available with other flexible diagnostic platforms,» said Sameer Sonkusale, Ph.D., corresponding author on the paper and director of the interdisciplinary Nano Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University's School of Engineering.
The bendable base layers make devices twist and stretch when attached to the skin, but they are limited by a lack of key components such as batteries and processors that currently do not exist in flexible form.
Mixing and matching materials this way may pave the way to brighter displays for cell phones and handheld games, spherical light - sensitive «eyes» that take in a wide field of view, and flexible communications devices that can be folded and stuffed into a backpack, says materials scientist John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
Despite their benefits for wearable devices, flexible electronics including Kim's remain cumbersome to manufacture and are currently built by hand one by one in university labs.
These contributions «represent a significant step forward in structure - function relationships in organic semiconductors, critical for the development of the next generation of flexible electronic devices,» the authors point out.
In our May 2014 issue, Sridhar Kota, a professor of engineering at the University of Michigan and founder and president of the company FlexSys, published an article about his long - running campaign to take complex, multipart machines and redesign them as flexible, one - piece devices (subscription required).
According to the authors on the paper «Flexible Ionic Devices for Low - Frequency Mechanical Energy Harvesting» published online in the journal Advanced Energy Materials, «The peak power density of our device is in general larger than or comparable to those of piezoelectric generators operated at their most efficient frequencies.»
The TFT, which has been presented today, 13 February, in IOP Publishing's journal Nanotechnology, is the latest device to be fabricated on paper, making the electronics more flexible, cheaper to produce and environmentally friendly.
For the millions of people every year who have or need medical devices implanted, a new advancement in 3D printing technology developed at the University of Florida promises significantly quicker implantation of devices that are stronger, less expensive, more flexible and more comfortable than anything currently available.
The flexible devices show potential for use in wearable and next - generation electronics.
Insights from the study could inspire advances in robotics, defense systems, or biomedicine, the authors say, teaching engineers how to build devices that are both flexible and strong.
The findings, which have been reported in Nature Communications, reveal that the h - BN layers form the strongest thin insulator available globally and the unique qualities of the material could be used to create flexible and almost unbreakable smart devices, as well as scratch - proof paint for cars.
«New way to move atomically thin semiconductors for use in flexible devices.»
In work led by professor Yanliang Zhang at Boise State University, high - performance and low - cost flexible thermoelectric films and devices were fabricated by an innovative screen - printing process that allows for direct conversion of nanocrystals into flexible thermoelectric devices.
Bao and her colleagues did, however, demonstrate the flexible potential of their microstructured elastic layer in a simpler device.
For example, by removing some of the oxygen from graphene oxide, the electrically insulating material can be rendered conductive, opening up prospects for use in flexible electronics, sensors, solar cells and biomedical devices.
Published today in the journal 2D Materials, the study from Tsinghua University in Beijing, employed flexible electronics made from graphene, in the form of a highly - sensitive resistive strain sensor, combined with a stretchable organic electrochromic device.
«The materials are so thin and flexible that the device can be made transparent and can conform to curved surfaces,» said Der - Hsien Lien, a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley and a co-first author along with Matin Amani and Sujay Desai, both doctoral students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at Berkeley.
Biomechanical stretch and strain can be mimicked in this device by rhythmic contractions of the flexible membrane.