(Nanowerk Spotlight) Advanced electronics manufacturing demands precise control over multiple layers of functional materials. Each layer - whether conducting electricity, emitting light, or processing ...

A new printing method inspired by kids' stamps could be used to create live cells of almost any shape or configuration. The technique, called BlocC printing, could be used to recreate networks of ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

The cells can be printed on hard or soft surfaces Imagine solar cells that are flexible enough to be rolled up like a sheet of paper or so transparent that they can be hung over a window. Such solar ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The potential use of antimicrobial surface coatings ranges from medicine, where medical device infection is associated with significant healthcare costs, to the construction ...

In order to achieve high-precision clock synchronization among instrument nodes in distributed LXI bus test systems. A Hardware time stamping method for PTP messages is introduced in this paper. It is ...