This project seeks to integrate smart fabric sensors and actuators into comfortable garment devices providing unobtrusive prevention options for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) that are not currently ...

Flexible devices play a central role in next-generation technologies, from health monitoring to soft robotics. However, ...

An important advancement has been made by researchers at Empa’s Laboratory for Functional Polymers, who have created a ...

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We have been researching on mechanically steerable antennas through the use of smart materials such as ionic polymers, dielectric elastomer actuators, shape memory alloyes, eutectic alloys, etc. Jiang ...