Building a robot that could pick up delicate objects like eggs or blueberries without crushing them took lots of control algorithms that process feeds from advanced vision systems or sensors that ...

Many applications in engineering require stretchable materials that dissipate little energy during normal operation of cyclic loads (low hysteresis), but dissipate much energy to resist rupture (high ...

A smartphone-enabled platform for easy and portably colorimetric analysis of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) using amine-trapped PDMS is designed and implemented. The amine-trapped polydimethylsiloxane ...

Whiskers are hairlike tactile sensors used by certain mammals and insects to monitor wind and navigate around local obstacles. Here, we demonstrate artificial electronic whiskers that can respond to ...

In this paper, we report on a cost-effective and simple, nondestructive pattern transfer method that allows the fabrication of metallic nanostructures on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate on a ...