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New Connections For Stretchable, Twistable Electronics

Posted by timothy on from the name-your-favorite-use-case dept.

tugfoigel writes "Jizhou Song, a professor in the University of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators Professor John Rogers, at the University of Illinois and Professor Yonggang Huang, at Northwestern University have developed a new design for stretchable electronics that can be wrapped around complex shapes, without a reduction in electronic function. The new mechanical design strategy is based on semiconductor nanomaterials that can offer high stretchability (e.g., 140%) and large twistability such as corkscrew twists with tight pitch (e.g., 90 degrees in 1 cm). Potential uses for the new design include electronic devices for eye cameras, smart surgical gloves, body parts, airplane wings, back planes for liquid crystal displays and biomedical devices."

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  1. For every day purposes by WindowlessView · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this make it less likely that my headphone wires won't automatically seek to form the most complex DNA strands in the universe?

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    1. Re:For every day purposes by dov_0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, but it will be possible to get the twists even tighter...

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    2. Re:For every day purposes by philspear · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, but there's a simple solution to that: stop wrapping your headphone wires around histones.

    3. Re:For every day purposes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Well tell him to stop sticking his stones right in front of my wires.

  2. Re:How many... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Those homonyms are a bitch aren't they?

  3. and the makers of by circletimessquare · · Score: 2, Funny

    pornographic fetishware rejoiced

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  4. Re:Devices by ATMD · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, Devizes. A small English town well-known for its high population of bioscientists :)

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  5. Re:This'll fix coiled cables? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Recently I had the same problem with a Cat5e cable at some other place; 5 meters, half of that from the IP phone to the wall; as soon as I straightened it up, the phone was able to connect.

    That's because the 1's get stuck in the turns but the 0's make it through just fine...

  6. At last! by jcr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just what I've been needing for my wi-fi enabled slinky.

    -jcr

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  7. So this means I can finally be Dr. Octopus by kbrasee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oddly enough, I was watching Spiderman 2 at the dentist's office today and thinking, "What I wouldn't give for the stretchable electronics and semiconductor nanomaterials that would allow me to have sweet electromechanical appendages like Dr. Octopus..." And then I go on Slashdot a few hours later, and find that my dream will soon be a reality!