Curious, diligent, and always positive, meet Prof. Zhenan Bao and her electronic skin.

Curious, diligent, and always positive, meet Prof. Zhenan Bao and her electronic skin.
Researchers create a soft robotic electronic skin with fingerprint-like patterns with future applications in prosthesis, wearable sensors, and medical devices.
Magnesium batteries for high temperature use, layered cathode materials, and cathode microstructure are at the forefront of battery technology research.
A new micro-lens array technology produces high-quality 3D images that can be used to improve driver safety, vehicle function, and provide innovative design effects.
Intrinsic or tightly integrated sensing, actuation, and computation embedded into 3D structures could enable a new generation of truly smart and complex systems, such as robots that have human-like dexterity.
Rechargeable calcium batteries have the prospect of high-energy and low-cost.
A new study reports liquid-phase exfoliation of graphene, boron nitride, and tungsten disulphide nanosheets using Irish whiskey.
A combination of inkjet and screen printing can be used to print 3D objects with electronic properties using multiple materials.
Metamaterials that can locally control their stiffness and shape would enable a host of new technologies.
Resistive switching occurs when a dielectric suddenly changes its resistance in the presence of a strong electric field. This phenomenon underpins the behavior of devices such as memristors and neuromorphic memories. In Advanced Materials, Prof. Manfred Martin of...