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Soft robotic tentacles that can be manipulated using pressurization have been developed by the Whitesides group at Harvard.
Flexible graphene oxide films for new organic solar cells
Greek scientists develop a new method to fabricate graphene oxide films for use in flexible photovoltaics.
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Device monitors microcystin-LR, a cyanobacterial toxin, in sources of drinking water supplies using carbon nanotube arrays.
Food additive enables printed materials for soft robotics
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Maximum Resolution through Solid Immersion
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Researchers use liquid metal to create stretchable wires
Researchers from North Carolina State University have created conductive wires that can be stretched up to eight times their original length while still functioning.
New all-polymer memory devices developed
A research team from KAUST in Saudia Arabia have fabricated all-polymer nonvolatile bistable memory devices with potential for use in flexible and transparent electronics.
Alternative to fullerenes in organic solar cells — just as exciting
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