R&D & Design
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2023.03.07
Stretchable Battery Packaging Could Power the Future of Wearable Devices
A team of researchers from Yokohama National University in Japan has developed a stretchable packaging film for these batteries with a high gas and moisture barrier functionality, bringing closer the possibility of wearable devices with highly deformable batteries as a common technology.
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Battery-Free, Light-Powered Pacemaker May Improve Quality of Life for Heart Disease Patients
Atrial fibrillation — a form of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia — leads to more than 454,000 hospitalizations and nearly 160,000 deaths in the United States each year. Globally, it is estimated that approximately 60 million people are affected by the condition.
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2023.02.24
IBS researchers develop high-resolution “ultra-thin” endoscope
Researchers at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) say they developed a high-resolution holographic endoscope system.
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2023.02.20
How Penumbra’s smart-sucking algorithms and catheters speed up clot removals
Blood loss is a big problem when using aspiration catheters to remove blood clots from patients’ veins and arteries.
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2023.02.15
Steerable Soft Robots Could Enhance Medical Applications
The researchers created the fibers with the thermal drawing process commonly used to produce fiber optic cables, similar to pulling a long string of cheese from a fondue and letting it harden. Material choice was critical, with elastomers.
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2023.02.13
Researchers create ‘unparalleled’ high-voltage microbattery
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign say they created a high-voltage microbattery with high energy and power density.
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2023.02.08
New Device Developed to Non-Invasively Measure Cervical Nerve Activity
An engineering-physician team at University of California San Diego has developed a device to non-invasively measure cervical nerve activity that could potentially inform and improve treatments for sepsis and mental health conditions.
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2023.02.06
UCSD researchers develop wearable ultrasound device
Engineers and physicians at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) developed a wearable ultrasound device for assessing heart function and structure.
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2023.02.02
Researchers use microelectronics to develop remote control for ‘biobots’
Researchers at collaborating universities in Illinois developed miniature biological robots with remote control capabilities.
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2023.01.18
Designing Feature-Rich Wearable Health and Fitness Devices
Wearable devices are transforming everything from remote patient monitoring to fitness tracking and hearing assistance.
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