{"id":125160,"date":"2021-07-20T02:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/engineers-develop-practical-way-to-make-artificial-skin"},"modified":"2021-07-20T02:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:22:33","slug":"engineers-develop-practical-way-to-make-artificial-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/engineers-develop-practical-way-to-make-artificial-skin","title":{"rendered":"Engineers develop practical way to make artificial skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-develop-practical-way-to-make-artificial-skin2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemical engineer Zhenan Bao and her team of researchers at Stanford have spent nearly two decades trying to develop skin-like integrated circuits that can be stretched, folded, bent and twisted \u2014 working all the while \u2014 and then snap back without fail, every time. Such circuits presage a day of wearable and implantable products, but one hurdle has always stood in the way.<\/p>\n<p>Namely, \u201cHow does one produce a completely new technology in quantities great enough to make commercialization possible?\u201d Bao said. Bao and team think they have a solution. In a new study, the group describes how they have printed stretchable-yet-durable integrated circuits on rubbery, skin-like materials, using the same equipment designed to make solid silicon chips \u2014 an accomplishment that could ease the transition to commercialization by switching foundries that today make rigid circuits to producing stretchable ones.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Stanford researchers show how to print dense transistor arrays on skin-like materials to create stretchable circuits that flex with the body to perform applications yet to be imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemical engineer Zhenan Bao and her team of researchers at Stanford have spent nearly two decades trying to develop skin-like integrated circuits that can be stretched, folded, bent and twisted \u2014 working all the while \u2014 and then snap back without fail, every time. Such circuits presage a day of wearable and implantable products, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1499,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}