New Connections For Stretchable, Twistable Electronics 60
tugfoigel writes "Jizhou Song, a professor in the University of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators Professor John Rogers, at the University of Illinois and Professor Yonggang Huang, at Northwestern University have developed a new design for stretchable electronics that can be wrapped around complex shapes, without a reduction in electronic function. The new mechanical design strategy is based on semiconductor nanomaterials that can offer high stretchability (e.g., 140%) and large twistability such as corkscrew twists with tight pitch (e.g., 90 degrees in 1 cm). Potential uses for the new design include electronic devices for eye cameras, smart surgical gloves, body parts, airplane wings, back planes for liquid crystal displays and biomedical devices."
How many... (Score:0, Insightful)
Re:For every day purposes (Score:3, Insightful)
Serously - why did the above get modded as a troll?
Re:How many... (Score:3, Insightful)
In other words you want them to skip all the intermediate stages of development and go right to the end. Hmm... that actually does sound pretty good.
Attention everyone: notify me when they've cured cancer, figured out if global warming is real or a hoax (and if real have solved it), and they have MP3s that are thin as a card and rollable. Until then, I'm going to be pouting in my room.
Why this is important research (Score:4, Insightful)
Consider that it is somewhat easier to print your circuitry in two dimensions, then to fold it up very small.
This is also helpful for making of smart materials, for example it'd be no use having a smart skin for a aircraft if fatigue and deformation destroys the circuitry within it.