Monday, October 18, 2010

Let's Get Started People

At UC Berkeley,Engineers have developed a pressure-sensitive electronic material from semiconductor nanowires that could one day give new meaning to the term "thin-skinned."
The idea was to make a material that functions like a real skin.
Hmmmm.. Sounds interesting.
I wonder if this can be transplanted to humans ourselves. Exciting!!!!
Moreover, this artificial skin, dubbed as 'e-skin', is the first such material made out of organic single crystalline semiconductors.
"The researchers started by growing the germanium/silicon nanowires on a cylindrical drum, which was then rolled onto a sticky substrate. The substrate used was a polyimide film, but the researchers said the technique can work with a variety of materials, including other plastics, paper or glass. As the drum rolled, the nanowires were deposited, or “printed,” onto the substrate in an orderly fashion, forming the basis from which thin, flexible sheets of electronic materials could be built."

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http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/09/12_eskin.shtml

1 comment:

  1. Wow that's nice.. hoping to read more from you Elj! Thanks for the comment on my blog!

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