Have you ever heard of smart shirts? The concept takes functional clothing to the next level, as smart shirts can be used to monitor and adjust body temperature, as well as apply heat to your back or a sore shoulder. At Case Western Reserve University, researchers have now developed an affordable way to produce these kinds of shirts.
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In our series #PrintingProfessions we introduce you to exciting professions in the printing industry. This time our post revolves around the training as a mechatronics technician resp. electronics technician for industrial engineering. It informs you about what qualifications are needed for this profession, what content is covered in the training, and what further training opportunities are available.
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Normally, you would think that a common office printer has no other purpose than printing documents. What sounded utopian at first has now become reality: For the first time, Dr. Mohammad Haider, Electrical and Computer Engineer of UAB Research Labs in Birmingham, makes office printers print circuits from anywhere, even from home.
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Stainless steel isn’t the material one’s thinking of first, when it comes to bending because of its missing flexibilty. In
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If ecological awareness really is a topic, then the field of electronics is its supreme discipline – one which scientists
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To improve the buttons at their busses, EvoBus teamed up with Dr. Sauer and his team from TU Darmstadt. Together they created a new way to print luminescent materials, which is a highly innovative technology, also for the global market.
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More than ever, printed and flexible electronics are on the rise. This is why we took a closer look on the current developments in these fields and gathered some trends for you.
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Printed electronics and functional printing are booming. This is why our weekly future links are all about current developments in this sector. We featured a new centre for printed electronics in Durham, a new 3D-printed series of multi-layered rigid PCBs with flexible conductive connectors, lightweight flexible solar modules and a review of flexible and printed electronics in 2016.
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Flexible electronics are the future. Especially for the use in small devices, the materials have to be highly pliable and robust. Scientists from the Leibniz-Institut für neue Materialien (INM) in Saarbrücken, Germany developed a process, which lets you “write” electronic caps directly with a pen. A combination of the advantages of organic and inorganic electronic materials form a new hybrid ink.
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