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Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Pictured: A Flexible, self-healing antennae made from liquid metal As engineers attempt to integrate electronics into things like clothing and medical devices, they're increasingly running up against the material properties of the substances we use to make the hardware. A lot of the materials that go into a typical electronic device are brittle, inflexible, and prone to damage, and materials scientists are looking at a variety of options for replacing them. A recent paper in Advanced Functional Materials describes a technique for forming an antenna from liquid metal. The resulting (not-so-) hardware is flexible, self-healing, and can change the frequency that it's sensitive to based on the stress it's subjected to. http://arstechnica.com/science/news/...campai gn=rss
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