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A Butterfly-Inspired Design to Create Crumple-Recoverable Electronics

A butterfly-inspired design to create crumple-recoverable electronics
Credit: Roh et al, Nature Electronics (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41928-023-01089-6

Over the past decades, electronics engineers have created devices of various shapes and with increasingly sophisticated designs. This includes electronics that can be folded onto themselves, such as foldable phones, along with various other compressible devices.

Researchers at Ajou University and other institutes in South Korea recently introduced a new design for developing crumple-recoverable electronics, or in other words, electronics that can recover their original shape after being crumpled or compressed onto themselves to reduce their size...

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Engineers create Rubbery ‘Smart’ Material to treat Open Wounds, Infections and Cancer

Professor James H. Henderson and Ph.D. candidate Shelby L. Buffington of Syracuse University display the new shape memory polymer in their lab.
Credit: Syracuse University

Researchers in the Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science have developed a material – a new kind of shape memory polymer (SMP) – that could have major implications for health care.

SMPs are soft, rubbery, “smart” materials that can change shape in response to external stimuli like temperature changes or exposure to light. They can hold each shape indefinitely and turn back when triggered to do so.

SMPs have many potential biomedical applications...

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