The quest to mimic human touch in technology has led researchers to explore piezoelectric and triboelectric effects as ...

Greater Chennai Corporation plans to repair pavements, but persons with disabilities highlight accessibility issues needing ...

But he couldn’t predict how swiftly this vision would materialize—or just how transformative its applications would prove to be. Diffusion generation process for a stable crystalline material having a ...

Skin-inspired tactile sensor combines speed with accuracy, paving the way to improved accessibility for people with blindness ...

School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300072, China State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology and Instruments, ...

A research team led by scientists at Northwestern University has developed the first-ever two-dimensional mechanically interlocked material with high flexibility and strength. In the future ...

Researchers have developed a fast and accurate flexible tactile optical sensor capable ... fiber ring resonator embedded in soft PDMS material that acts like a flexible optical skin.

College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China Key Laboratory of Radio ...

Materials innovation is one of the key drivers of major technological breakthroughs. The discovery of lithium cobalt oxide in the 1980s laid the groundwork for today’s lithium-ion battery technology.

A new study examines ways that carbon could be used as a key ingredient in building materials—particularly biomass plastics and cement. Obstacles still remain, as some of these technologies are ...

Abstract: Tactile is an important source of information for people to explore the external environment. In the past few decades, researchers have paid special attention to tactile sensors and have ...

Ultrathin materials made of a single layer of atoms have riveted scientists' attention since the discovery of the first such material—graphene, composed of carbon—about 20 years ago.