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Robust conductive hydrogels made purely from a conducting polymer can be fabricated using a laser-induced phase separation method that also improves adhesion to a polymer substrate and allows high-resolution selective patterning.
As the scale and application of artificial intelligence technologies continues to grow, addressing challenges related to the wider accessibility of the underlying technology becomes increasingly important.
A non-volatile memory device that is based on an aluminium scandium nitride (Al0.68Sc0.32N) ferroelectric diode can operate at temperatures of up to 600 °C.
By integrating a metal‒oxide‒semiconductor capacitor into a two-terminal diode, a multifunctional single device can be created that operates as a tunable light-emitting diode with a built-in bias tee circuit and a detector with a reconfigurable optoelectronic logic function.
A graph-based genetic programming method can be used to automatically generate small and energy-efficient circuits from tabular data for machine learning classification tasks.
A method for integrating polycrystalline molybdenum disulfide using processes in a 200 mm fab facility can create transistors with high robustness and performance comparable with single-crystalline devices.
Nanofluidic memristors that rely on mechanical deformations to modulate ionic conductance can be coupled to form logic circuits, opening a route to ionic machinery that could implement neural networks.
High-density device arrays can be integrated on flexible substrates using a dip-transfer coating method that suppresses adhesive layers from forming between closely spaced devices and uses magnetically self-assembled particles to increase the anisotropic conductivity.
A measurement scheme in which current is injected simultaneously into two disconnected perimeters of a multi-terminal Corbino device can be used to increase the robustness of a zero-magnetic-field quantum anomalous Hall resistor, thus extending its operating range to higher currents.
Using an intrinsically stretchable nanocomposite of quantum dots, an elastomer and a hole transport polymer as an emissive layer, stretchable light-emitting diodes can be fabricated that exhibit high brightness even under 50% strain.
Photo-responsive metal halide perovskite light-emitting diodes can be used to create a multifunctional display that can function as a touch screen, ambient light sensor and image sensor.
A flexible, biodegradable and self-powered electronic bandage is designed to deliver dual-mode electrical stimulation, which can synergistically accelerate local intestinal wound healing. This approach also shows promise for reducing postoperative complications and could have broad potential for application in other tissues and organs.
Distributed sensing of a dynamic environment is typically characterized by the sparsity of events, such as neuronal firing in the brain. Using the brain as inspiration, an event-driven communication strategy is developed that enables the efficient transmission, accurate retrieval and interpretation of sparse events across a network of thousands of wireless microsensors.