Posted on 12/01/2020 6:10:17 AM PST by BenLurkin
We have covered the concept of electronic skin (e-skin) quite a bit, reporting on everything from e-skin that self-heals to one that feels like the real thing. However, we have yet to see any of these products become mainstream.
Will this next invention by the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) be the one to finally take e-skin from the lab to actual practical applications? KAUST researchers are reporting a novel e-skin that can mimic the strength, stretchability, and sensitivity of real human skin.
Cai and colleague Jie Shen have now engineered a new more realistic e-skin using a hydrogel reinforced with silica nanoparticles and a 2D titanium carbide MXene bound together with nanowires.
(Excerpt) Read more at interestingengineering.com ...
Hope I never need it, but as I age, I get some awesome skin-tears.
It might be better then being skinned alive for Skin Grafting, not sure though. My thigh where they took the 200 sq inches of skin to graft on to my back and arm, never really hurt much and healed up just fine. One GIANT Scab over cheesecloth they wrapped my leg with. Took 3-4 months to heal.
it was an actual episode of that so-so series Sarah Connor Chronicles where the first t1000 was manufactured during our timeline with “skin”.
Only costs six million dollars.😁
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