“Soft Electronics” Means Even Devices With Holes In Them Could Still Work

30/06/2021 3 min Temporada 3 Episodio 563

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Episode Synopsis

Our high-tech devices are amazing but also kind of fragile. But a team at Virginia Tech has a solution: “soft electronics” that can not only keep working when they’re damaged, they can heal themselves. Plus: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech have been using high-altitude balloons to measure seismic activity, and they're hoping to send those balloons someday to monitor Venusquakes! 
Unbroken: New soft electronics don’t break, even when punctured (Virginia Tech)
NASA Balloon Detects California Earthquake – Next Stop, Venus? (NASA)
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