A research team developed a self-powered sensor that creates electricity and light using only motion and pressure.

Fluidic elastomer actuators (FEAs) are pressurized tubes or membranes that can be easily rearranged into complex mechanical ...

This useful study integrates experimental methods from materials science with psychophysical methods to investigate how frictional stabilities influence tactile surface discrimination. The authors ...

Static electricity affects everyday life in familiar ways—the shock from touching a doorknob, a balloon sticking to a child’s ...

A recent breakthrough in photothermal actuator design has been achieved by a research team from the Hefei Institutes of ...

Researchers have developed a freely available droplet microfluidic component library, which promises to transform the way ...

The beads, sourced from microParticles GmbH, included PMMA, PS, and MF particles of varying diameters (0.5 to 10 micrometers) ...

The Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssensors.4c02974. Detailed experimental details include the materials ...

However, the accuracy of these simulations is highly dependent on the quality of the force fields used. In this work, we present a comprehensive benchmark and development of force fields tailored for ...