A team of researchers have developed a circuit board that provides true flexibility and can be easily recycled. What challenges do flexible electronics face, what have the researchers developed, and what advantages does the new design provide? What design chal...
By Robin Mitchell | 17-11-2020
Recently, a team of researchers have demonstrated a range of different inks that can be used to create circuits and multiple passive components. What example circuit was the team able to demonstrate, what makes these inks a crucial step in wearable electronics...
By Robin Mitchell | 13-08-2020
Recently, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B), has developed an ultrathin optical sensor that can both detect light and generate power. What makes this sensor design unique, and how does it help the wearable electronics field? What are wearable e...
By Robin Mitchell | 06-08-2020
Smart fabrics that can change colour, charge a phone and keep you warm in cold weather are not so much the future of smart textiles in fashion but the here and now of sartorial progress. Materials with extremely delicate conductive fibres woven into them are a...
By Paul Whytock | 16-04-2015