{"id":32532,"date":"2016-12-10T12:48:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T20:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/turning-the-potential-of-electronic-printables-into-a-real-breakthrough"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:58:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:58:59","slug":"turning-the-potential-of-electronic-printables-into-a-real-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/turning-the-potential-of-electronic-printables-into-a-real-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Turning the potential of electronic printables into a real breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Those \u201csell by\u201d or \u201cbest by\u201d dates that you see on food packaging? They\u2019re so last century. In the future, built-in sensors in food labels will not only tell you when a product is going bad but also if you\u2019re storing it correctly. Some might even be able to give you a breakdown of its nutritional data. All this is thanks to developments in the burgeoning world of printable electronics<\/a>. Now researchers at MIT have invented a printing process that could turn a lot of the potential breakthroughs, such as electricity-generating clothing<\/a> and smart sutures<\/a> we\u2019ve been seeing in this space<\/a>, into an inexpensive reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a huge need for printing of electronic devices that are extremely inexpensive but provide simple computations and interactive functions,\u201d says A. John Hart, an associate professor in contemporary technology and mechanical engineering.<\/p>\n

While some researchers have been studying the possibility of using inkjet printing and rubber stamping, these techniques have produced mixed results at best, often resulting in fuzzy, coffee-ring patterns or incomplete circuits due to the difficulty of controlling ink flow at such small scales.<\/p>\n

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Those \u201csell by\u201d or \u201cbest by\u201d dates that you see on food packaging? They\u2019re so last century. In the future, built-in sensors in food labels will not only tell you when a product is going bad but also if you\u2019re storing it correctly. Some might even be able to give you a breakdown of its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32532","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65615,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32532\/revisions\/65615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}