{"id":81701,"date":"2018-08-13T18:23:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T01:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/printed-electronics-breakthrough-could-lead-to-flexible-electronics-revolution"},"modified":"2018-08-13T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T01:23:09","slug":"printed-electronics-breakthrough-could-lead-to-flexible-electronics-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/printed-electronics-breakthrough-could-lead-to-flexible-electronics-revolution","title":{"rendered":"Printed electronics breakthrough could lead to flexible electronics revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/printed-electronics-breakthrough-could-lead-to-flexible-electronics-revolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new form of electronics manufacturing which embeds silicon nanowires into flexible surfaces could lead to radical new forms of bendable electronics, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>In a new paper published today in the journal <i>Microsystems and Nanoengineering<\/i>, engineers from the University of Glasgow describe how they have for the first time been able to affordably \u2018print\u2019 high-mobility semiconductor <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanowires\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanowires<\/a> onto flexible surfaces to develop high-performance ultra-thin electronic layers.<\/p>\n<p>Those surfaces, which can be bent, flexed and twisted, could lay the foundations for a wide range of applications including video screens, improved health monitoring devices, implantable devices and synthetic skin for prosthetics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-electronics-breakthrough-flexible-revolution.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-electronics-breakthrough-f...ution.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new form of electronics manufacturing which embeds silicon nanowires into flexible surfaces could lead to radical new forms of bendable electronics, scientists say. In a new paper published today in the journal Microsystems and Nanoengineering, engineers from the University of Glasgow describe how they have for the first time been able to affordably \u2018print\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1495,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-health","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81701","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=81701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}