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Engineers have developed the first stretchable integrated circuit that is made entirely using an inkjet printer. The feat raises the possibility of inexpensive mass production of smart fabric.<\/p>\n

Imagine an ultrathin smart tablet that can be stretched from mini-size to extra large, or a rubber band-like wrist monitor that measures your heartbeat, or wallpaper that turns an entire wall into an electronic display.<\/p>\n

And because the material can be produced on a standard printer, it has a major potential cost advantage over current technologies that are expensive to manufacture.<\/p>\n

“We can conceivably make the costs of producing flexible electronics comparable to the costs of printing newspapers,” says Chuan Wang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan State University, whose lab developed the material. “Our work could soon lead to printed displays that can easily be stretched to larger sizes, as well as wearable electronics and soft robotics applications.”<\/p>\n

The smart fabric is made up of several materials fabricated from nanomaterials and organic compounds. These compounds are dissolved in solution to produce different electronic inks, which are run through the printer to make the devices.<\/p>\n

From the ink, Wang and his team have successfully created the elastic material, the circuit and the organic light-emitting diode, or OLED. The next step is combining the circuit and OLED into a single pixel, which Wang estimates will take one to two years. There are generally millions of pixels just underneath the screen of a smart tablet or a large display.<\/p>\n

Dissolving battery could power devices that self-destruct<\/a><\/h5>\n

Once the researchers successfully combine the circuit and OLED into a working pixel, the smart fabric can be potentially commercialized.<\/p>\n

Conceivably, Wang says, the stretchable electronic fabric can be folded and put in your pocket without breaking. This is an advantage over current “flexible” electronics material technology that cannot be folded.<\/p>\n

“We have created a new technology that is not yet available,” Wang says. “And we have taken it one big step beyond the flexible screens that are about to become commercially available.”<\/p>\n

The discovery of the ink-fabricated stretchable circuitry appears in the journal ACS Nano<\/em><\/a>. Coauthors are from Michigan State and Florida State University.<\/p>\n

Source: Michigan State University<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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