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Getting the Right Grip: Designing Soft and Sensitive Robotic Fingers

Dec. 10, 2020 — To develop a more human-like robotic gripper, it is necessary to provide sensing capabilities to the fingers. However, conventional sensors compromise the mechanical properties of soft robots. Now, ...

Engineering Discovery Challenges Heat Transfer Paradigm That Guides Electronic and Photonic Device Design

Dec. 9, 2020 — A research breakthrough demonstrates a new mechanism to control temperature and extend the lifetime of electronic and photonic devices such as ...

Stretchable Micro-Supercapacitors to Self-Power Wearable Devices

Dec. 8, 2020 — A stretchable system that can harvest energy from human breathing and motion for use in wearable health-monitoring devices may be possible, according to an international team of ...

Paper-Based Electrochemical Sensor Can Detect COVID-19 in Less Than Five Minutes

Dec. 7, 2020 — Researchers have developed a rapid, ultrasensitive test using a paper-based electrochemical sensor that can detect the presence of the virus in less ...

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New Method to Label and Track Nano-Particles Could Improve Our Understanding of Plastic Pollution

Dec. 8, 2020 — A ground-breaking method to label and track manufactured nano-plastics could signal a paradigm shift in how we understand and care for environments, ...

Researchers Develop Unique Process for Producing Light-Matter Mixture

Dec. 7, 2020 — In groundbreaking new research, an international team of researchers has developed a unique process for producing a quantum state that is part light and part ...

Harnessing Quantum Properties to Create Single-Molecule Devices

Dec. 7, 2020 — Researchers report that they have discovered a new chemical design principle for exploiting destructive quantum interference. They used their approach to create a six-nanometer single-molecule switch ...

Chemists Get Peek at Novel Fluorescence

Dec. 3, 2020 — Chemists find a second level of fluorescence in single-walled carbon nanotubes. The phenomenon may be useful in solar energy and optoelectronic ...

Cooling Electronics Efficiently With Graphene-Enhanced Heat Pipes

Dec. 3, 2020 — Researchers have found that graphene-based heat pipes can help solve the problems of cooling electronics and power systems used in avionics, data centres, and other power ...

New Platform Generates Hybrid Light-Matter Excitations in Highly Charged Graphene

Dec. 2, 2020 — Researchers report that they have achieved plasmonically active graphene with record-high charge density without an external gate. They accomplished ...

Nanomaterials Enable Dual-Mode Heating and Cooling Device

Dec. 2, 2020 — Engineers have demonstrated a dual-mode heating and cooling device for building climate control that, if widely deployed in the U.S., could cut HVAC energy use by nearly 20 percent. The invention ...

New Glue Sticks Easily, Holds Strongly, and Is a Gas to Pull Apart

Dec. 2, 2020 — Research introduces temporary adhesives that don't require tearing or ripping to pull ...

Virus-Like Probes Could Help Make Rapid COVID-19 Testing More Accurate, Reliable

Dec. 1, 2020 — Nanoengineers have developed new and improved probes, known as positive controls, that could make it easier to validate rapid, point-of-care ...

Game Changer in Thermoelectric Materials Could Unlock Body-Heat Powered Personal Devices

Nov. 30, 2020 — A breakthrough improvement in ultra-efficient thermoelectric materials, which can convert heat into electricity and vice versa, has great potential ...