Metals and alloys news, December 2011

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.

Washable, stretchable, and reusable core–shell metal nanowire network-based electronics on a breathable polymer nanomesh substrate

The new generation of soft and wearable electronics for health monitoring in varying environment: From normal to extreme conditions

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.