Metals and alloys news, September 2008

Screen printing wearable electronics for the good of our health

Electrode screen-printing process for health monitoring

Great escape for novel phase-shifting material

Engineers have designed miniature robots made from a novel phase-shifting material that can rapidly and reversibly shift between liquid and solid states.

New electrochromic material blows hot and cold

Researchers have developed a novel electrochromic material that can conduct both heating and cooling by switching between two different conformations.

Silver-doped bone scaffolds combat infection

new scaffold material support bone regeneration and regrowth, while reducing chance of infection

Recent breakthroughs and perspectives of high-energy layered oxide cathode materials for lithium ion batteries