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Making the impossible possible and the common easy
How do you protect yourself from disruption? How do you innovate without radically increasing the cost of doing business? It all boils down to one simple question: do you feel secure in the tools you're using? [ + ]
Electroplating cathodes creates powerful batteries
US and Chinese researchers have taken the same process that makes gold-plated jewellery or chrome car accents, known as electroplating, and applied it to lithium-ion battery cathodes. [ + ]
Smart exoskeleton supports seniors
Wearable machines that enhance movement and endurance no longer belong to the realm of science fiction, with European researchers developing a smart exoskeleton that recognises loss of balance and prevents falling in elderly patients. [ + ]
Stretchable electronics: everything you need to know
Stretchable electronics has been in the making for more than a decade, but up to now it has been mostly a solution looking for a problem. Recent analysis by IDTechEx Research, however, finds that this is about to change. [ + ]
Transparent thin films with high conductivity
US researchers have discovered a nanoscale-thin film material with what is said to be the highest ever conductivity in its class, in a breakthrough which could lead to smaller, faster and more powerful electronics. [ + ]
Flexible, organic and biodegradable: electronics based on human skin
US researchers have developed a semiconductor that is as flexible as skin and easily degradable, offering diverse medical and environmental applications without adding to the mounting pile of global electronic waste. [ + ]
Making the most of managed test systems
The media tends to focus on the consumer Internet of Things, but thinking of a test system as an IoT device presents additional opportunities. [ + ]
Graphene 'copy machine' to produce cheaper wafers
MIT engineers have developed a technique that could vastly reduce the overall cost of wafer technology for the semiconductor industry, enabling devices made from more exotic, higher performing materials than conventional silicon. [ + ]
Understanding how modern induction cookers work
The induction cooktop is quite popular, both in domestic and commercial usage, and is considered one of the advanced technological innovations in the field of cooking. [ + ]
Wearable sensor diagnoses disease from your sweat
Researchers in the US have developed a wristband-like sensor that collects sweat, measures its molecular constituents and then electronically transmits the results for analysis and diagnostics. [ + ]
2D nanomaterials create printed electronics
Researchers have fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely of two-dimensional nanomaterials for the first time, in a breakthrough which combines exciting electronic properties with the potential for low-cost production. [ + ]
Jumping droplets cool mobile hotspots
US researchers have reported a technique designed to address mobile hotspots, which come about through electronic devices' inability to evenly dissipate the waste heat they produce. [ + ]
Spinning in the light
Chemists have developed a material that uses rotatable molecules to emit light faster than has ever been achieved before, in a breakthrough which could pave the way for a new generation of high-efficiency lighting. [ + ]
Ultrathin silver films for tarnish-proof touch screens
The thinnest, smoothest layer of silver that can survive air exposure has been developed by a research team led by the University of Michigan — and it could change the way touch screens and flat or flexible displays are made. [ + ]
Star-spangled nanowires
US researchers have described a material that, when heated by several hundred degrees, transforms from an atomically thin, two-dimensional sheet into an array of one-dimensional nanowires, each just a few atoms wide. [ + ]
