Pictured here is a section of "e-skin" developed at the University of Colorado. (Photo credit: Jianliang Xiao / University of Colorado Boulder)
If you are planning on building a Terminator that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger, you may need some skin in the game. This new advance may eventually make your task easier. A recent publication in the journal Science Advances details how researchers from the University of Colorado have developed e-skin.
This is not e-skin as in "eeee" it's skin. E-skin stands for electronic skin, a synthetic replica of skin that mimics many properties of real skin such as being soft, malleable, and able to sense touch, air flow, humidity, and temperature and regenerate itself. Zhanan Zou, Yan Li, and Jianliang Xiao from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Chengpu Zhu, Xingfeng Lei, and Wei Zhang form the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado created a thin layer of translucent material that is equipped with sensors. The e-skin includes polyimine, a new polymer that is laced with silver nanoparticles to enhance its strength, stability and electrical conductivity. The skin is also recyclable. Just dip the skin into a recycling solution that includes ethanol, and the polymers will dissolve into smaller components (oligomers and monomers) and the silver nanoparticles will sink to the bottom. All of these components can then be re-used to create new e-skin.
Want to make your own Terminator? You may need some skin in the game. (Photo by Casey Rodgers/Invision for Paramount Home Entertainment/AP Images)
The thought is that such e-skin can eventually cover prosthetic devices such as artificial limbs or robots to make them more lifelike and give them added functionality. Also, such e-skin may eventually replace the covering of electronic devices and equipment, thereby providing surfaces that are more pleasant to touch, may interact more with the user, and can repair themselves. Yes, picture all of the objects around you feeling more like skin or your smartphone saying, "hey, that tickles." The possibilities are fascinating and in some cases a bit creepy.
Of course, the current version does not completely look, feel, or act like real skin. So maybe you are not quite ready to build a Terminator that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Kristanna Loken. But it's a step towards that direction.
">Pictured here is a section of "e-skin" developed at the University of Colorado. (Photo credit: Jianliang Xiao / University of Colorado Boulder)
If you are planning on building a Terminator that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger, you may need some skin in the game. This new advance may eventually make your task easier. A recent publication in the journal Science Advances details how researchers from the University of Colorado have developed e-skin.
This is not e-skin as in "eeee" it's skin. E-skin stands for electronic skin, a synthetic replica of skin that mimics many properties of real skin such as being soft, malleable, and able to sense touch, air flow, humidity, and temperature and regenerate itself. Zhanan Zou, Yan Li, and Jianliang Xiao from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Chengpu Zhu, Xingfeng Lei, and Wei Zhang form the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado created a thin layer of translucent material that is equipped with sensors. The e-skin includes polyimine, a new polymer that is laced with silver nanoparticles to enhance its strength, stability and electrical conductivity. The skin is also recyclable. Just dip the skin into a recycling solution that includes ethanol, and the polymers will dissolve into smaller components (oligomers and monomers) and the silver nanoparticles will sink to the bottom. All of these components can then be re-used to create new e-skin.
Want to make your own Terminator? You may need some skin in the game. (Photo by Casey Rodgers/Invision for Paramount Home Entertainment/AP Images)
The thought is that such e-skin can eventually cover prosthetic devices such as artificial limbs or robots to make them more lifelike and give them added functionality. Also, such e-skin may eventually replace the covering of electronic devices and equipment, thereby providing surfaces that are more pleasant to touch, may interact more with the user, and can repair themselves. Yes, picture all of the objects around you feeling more like skin or your smartphone saying, "hey, that tickles." The possibilities are fascinating and in some cases a bit creepy.
Of course, the current version does not completely look, feel, or act like real skin. So maybe you are not quite ready to build a Terminator that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Kristanna Loken. But it's a step towards that direction.
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