Sentences with phrase «of flexible devices»

In 2008, at a materials science conference in Boston, Dagdeviren approached John Rogers, whom she describes as a «king of flexible devices.»

They also put the aerogel in a circuit with an LED and found it could potentially work as a component of a flexible device.

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This essentially involves developing a flexible website that will «respond» and adjust itself to the various screen dimensions of devices.

Best of all, it comes with built - in Bluetooth and Wi - Fi to make it a truly flexible wireless device.

Our flexible print delivery software prints data from virtually any host to any peripheral device, regardless of communication protocol.

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.

Glenroy Inc. provides flexible packaging for many types of products, from motor oil to medical devices.

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 devices meet the stringent regulatory requirements of the food processing industry while providing high - performance, efficient and flexible sample analysis.

Inventions by PepsiCo, P&G and Abbott captured your attention, as well as new flexible packaging and an ingenious why - didn't - we - think - of - that - before metering device.

An IUD is a small T - shaped device made of flexible plastic that's inserted into the uterus by a healthcare provider.

She had also used a device that uses suction to help her nipple protrude: a syringe with a soft, flexible tip made of silicone.

The device consists of a plastic pouch or bag to hold breast milk or formula attached to thin, flexible tubes that run down each breast to the nipple.

Its comprehensive, high quality PC, video and audio connectivity enables easy, flexible hook up to laptops and netbooks, as well as smartphones, digital media players, digital cameras, camcorders, games consoles and other multimedia devices for spontaneous sharing of content on the spot.

Beyond HPC system - software development, additional applications for the Pi Cluster Modules include better simulation of large - scale sensor networks, with flexible I / O to connect the actual sensor devices; HPC network topology research, to improve production performance; and the internet of things.

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 humans.

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.

That basic research has since yielded a torrent of industrial applications, from medical diagnostic devices to flexible electronics — more than enough to keep most scientists busy.

«Given the technique's efficiency, direct writing capability, and scalability, we're optimistic that this can be used to advance the development of flexible, stretchable electronics using silver nanowires — making these devices practical from a manufacturing perspective,» Zhu says.

The device consists of a standard sports glove kitted out with nine flexible strain sensors that are placed over different knuckles.

Based on graphene field - effect transistors, the flexible devices open up new possibilities for the development of functional implants and interfaces.

While such a device still faces substantial obstacles before wide - scale implementation, two teams of researchers have announced innovations combining standard electronics with flexible materials that may bring the futuristic concept closer to reality.

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

The micrometer - scale device consists of a flexible aluminum plate that sits atop a silicon substrate.

Thus devices can be sprayed — from a computer - controlled robotic nozzle — onto virtually any kind of substrate, including large - area sheets of flexible plastic.

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.

The devices, made from transparent and flexible carbon nanotube films, don't require any of the bulky magnets and sound cones of conventional speakers.

And they are already turning some of them into thin, flexible, speedy electronic and optical devices that they hope will form the backbone of industries of the future.

However, the great advantage of the new devices is that they are completely flexible and can be made virtually transparent.

The research team has successfully embedded a powerful magnetic memory chip on a flexible plastic material, and this malleable memory chip will be a critical component for the design and development of flexible and lightweight 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 processing.

Flexible tuning of bandgap is extremely desirable in semiconductor - based devices.»

«The self - healing sensor raises expectations that flexible devices might someday be self - administered, which increases their reliability,» explained co-developer Dr. Tan - Phat Huynh, also of the Technion, whose work focuses on the development of self - healing electronic skin.

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.

The sensor is an amazing piece of hardware - software synergy, and luckily, it's actually a pretty flexible device.

«Additionally, most of the reported flexible batteries are based on flammable organic or corrosive electrolytes, which suffer from safety hazards and poor biocompatibility for wearable devices, let alone implantable ones.»

«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.»

Part of the excitement is that such flexible piezoelectric crystals would make more sensitive detectors and could improve the resolution of medical devices that use ultrasound.

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.

«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.

These ultra-thin carbon filaments have high mobility, high transparency and electric conductivity, making them ideal for performing electronic tasks and making flexible electronic devices like thin film transistors, the on - off switches at the heart of digital electronic systems.

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.

While such devices still face substantial obstacles before wide - scale implementation, two teams of researchers have announced innovations combining standard electronics with flexible materials that may bring the futuristic concept closer to reality.

A team of researchers led by John Rogers, a materials scientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, has developed a way to incorporate widely available rigid electronic components into a structure that would still be flexible like Kim's device.

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.