When electronics need to stretch, bend or flex, like a wearable sensor or a shape-changing robot, liquid metal often carries ...

Tiny cracks can help soft electronic materials conduct electricity, researchers have discovered. When the material is ...

Virginia Tech researchers showed that microscopic cracks formed under pressure allow liquid metal to flow into insulating ...

Virginia Tech engineers have worked out how liquid metal droplets buried in soft materials ...

Research leads to novel skin-like, electronic metal material that can be 3D printed for soft robotics and wearables. A new skin-like, electrically conductive metal material could pave the way for ...

Engineers developed a metal-free, Jelly-like material that is as soft and tough as biological tissue and can conduct electricity similarly to conventional metals. The new material, which is a type of ...

"Soft metals like lithium and sodium have excellent properties for being batteries' negative electrodes, with lithium considered as an ultimate anode material for future high-energy rechargeable ...

Coating a soft metal with any compound that adheres leads to smoother cuts because the coating makes the surface more brittle. Fixing the chips. A microscope image (about 400 micrometers wide) shows ...

Do an image search for "electronic implants," and you'll draw up a wide assortment of devices, from traditional pacemakers and cochlear implants to more futuristic brain and retinal microchips aimed ...