Have you ever thought about the possibilities of bendable, stretchable electronics? They’re amazing. From a circuit attached to your brain to a pacemaker that sticks to your heart, these are the stuff that medical sci-fi dreams are made of. There’s only one problem: Stretchable electronics are notoriously impossible to make. At least until now they were. A team of engineers from the University of Michigan are currently perfecting an unassuming but incredible invention. It’s an elastic gold conductor. Made up of gold nanoparticles and stretchy polyurethane, the material just looks like a piece of foil to the naked eye. But after watching it stretch out four times its normal size, it’s obvious that this conductor is something else.
Stretchable Gold Could Radically Advance Electronics
Published July 19, 2013 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Biomedical Research, Flexible electronics, gold nanoparticle, material engineering, medical research, Nicholas Kotov, polyurethane, science, stretchable conductor, University of Michigan
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