Areas of emphasis for faculty in our department include controlling electronic and ionic transport, enhancing mechanical durability and reprocessability, enabling the next generation of soft robots ...

Materials can be soft, hard, and even shiny ... Most wooden objects around us aren't flexible and cannot be bent, but wood can actually be a flexible material - just look at trees branches ...

Watch this thin, flexible material teach itself to mimic ocean waves and flexing palms in real-time. Relying on electromagnetic actuation, mechanical modeling and machine learning to form new ...

UMass Lowell combined competences is a catalyst for flexible hybrid electronics developments throughout the value chain from FHE materials such as compounding and processing of new substrates, to ...

Previous soft circuit research developed by ... which works when rigid materials are used to connect those layers. In a ...

A new hydrogel material combines the characteristics of biological tissues with the electronic functionalities of semiconductors ...

As part of the work, the researchers can cut a flexible ... Tailored Soft Architectures Through 3D Printing of Elastomeric Block Copolymers, Advanced Functional Materials (2024).