{"id":74630,"date":"2017-12-20T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/metal-printing-offers-low-cost-way-to-make-flexible-stretchable-electronics"},"modified":"2017-12-20T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:22:30","slug":"metal-printing-offers-low-cost-way-to-make-flexible-stretchable-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/metal-printing-offers-low-cost-way-to-make-flexible-stretchable-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Metal printing offers low-cost way to make flexible, stretchable electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metal-printing-offers-low-cost-way-to-make-flexible-stretchable-electronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for directly printing metal circuits, creating flexible, stretchable electronics. The technique can use multiple metals and substrates and is compatible with existing manufacturing systems that employ direct printing technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlexible electronics hold promise for use in many fields, but there are significant manufacturing costs involved \u2014 which poses a challenge in making them practical for commercial use,\u201d says Jingyan Dong, corresponding author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in NC State\u2019s Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial &amp; Systems Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur approach should reduce cost and offer an efficient means of producing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/circuits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">circuits<\/a> with high resolution, making them viable for integrating into commercial devices,\u201d Dong says.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2017-12-metal-low-cost-flexible-stretchable-electronics.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2017&#45;12-metal-low-cost-flexi...onics.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for directly printing metal circuits, creating flexible, stretchable electronics. The technique can use multiple metals and substrates and is compatible with existing manufacturing systems that employ direct printing technologies. \u201cFlexible electronics hold promise for use in many fields, but there are significant manufacturing costs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74630","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}