🧪Dehnbare Leiter aus Flüssigmetall: leitfähig bei 500% Dehnung, selbstheilend aber noch weit von Marktreife

👉 Meine Meinung: Der Impuls zählt. Die Herausforderung liegt in der Skalierbarkeit, nicht im Material.

(Video Credits to Cell Press / iScience, 14.06.2018, via CELL PRESS / ISC, "Video S1. MPC for Stretchable Circuits, Related to Figure 3"; Social Media-Bearbeitung: Rinor Restelica)

#FlüssigMetall #SoftRobotics #StretchableElectronics #Innovation

Stretchable electronics with solar or other power generation and storage capabilities are going to be revolutionary to the form and function of our devices. Research in this area always catches my eye.

Editor’s summary
Stretchable organic solar cells for powering wearable devices have been achieved by blending a ductile donor semiconductor polymer with a plasticizing small-molecule acceptor to overcome the inherent brittleness of the photoactive components. Wang et al. have shown that the acceptor actually enhances ductility in the blend and maintains electron mobility despite its lack of crystallinity. Devices achieved a power conversion efficiency of greater than 16% and could maintain 80% of that efficiency at 80% strain.
#materials #science #StretchableElectronics https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp9709

(Paywall) The disappearing boundary between organism & machine: Artificial skin mimics sensory feedback of biological skin https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adf0262

(Paywall) Neuromorphic sensorimotor loop embodied by monolithically integrated, low-voltage, soft e-skin
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade0086

Prosthetic skin incorporates organic semiconductor transistors; can sense external stimuli & encode them into electrical pulses.

#StretchableElectronics
#Prosthetics #HumanPerformanceModification