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Form-fitting, nanoscale sensors now make sense
What if a sensor sensing a thing could be part of the thing itself? Rice University engineers believe they have a two-dimensional solution to do just that.
Rice engineers led by materials scientists Pulickel Ajayan and Jun Lou have developed a method to make atom-flat sensors that seamlessly integrate with devices to report on what they perceive.
Electronically active 2D materials have been the subject of much research since the introduction of graphene in 2004. Even though they are often touted for their strength, they’re difficult to move to where they’re needed without destroying them.
The Ajayan and Lou groups, along with the lab of Rice engineer Jacob Robinson, have a new way to keep the materials and their associated circuitry, including electrodes, intact as they’re moved to curved or other smooth surfaces.
The results of their work appear in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 11 2018, @06:29PM (1 child)
What is this "article" of which you speak?
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday December 11 2018, @06:51PM
To be fair, there were like 30 links in the summary no one would want to click on, and one that was useful.