New stretchable electrodes created to study stresses on cardiac cells

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Engineers at Purdue and Stanford universities have created stretchable electrodes to study how cardiac muscle cells, neurons and other cells react to mechanical stresses from heart attacks, traumatic brain injuries and other diseases. The devices are made by injecting a l...

Fibrin Fibers More Stretchable Than Natural Fiber

Scientists have discovered that fibrin fibers could stretch to three times its length before going back to its original state, while some could even stretch to six times// their original length before breaking. Fibrin involved in blood clotting is developed in the blood from a soluble protein...

Deflecting Damage: Flexible Electronics Aid Brain Injury Research

...improperly functioning neurons can now be assessed by the electrodes in the stretchable membranes. After brain cells have been placed on the flexible surface and a...ators under age 35. Together, the engineers created the first working stretchable circuits by linking tiny pieces of traditional semiconductors mounted on a ...

Stretchable in Medical Products

Darco SlimLine Cast Boots

Description:...ble rocker sole for easy ambulation! The SlimLine boot is built around a narrow last so it fits better than the old plaster cast boots, and with our stretchable upper, a custom fit is possible everytime....
Company:Markell Shoe

VICRYL (polyglactin 910) knitted mesh

Description:... Provides reliable strength for temporary wound support. Especially suitable for instances in which compliant and stretchable support material is desired and containment of wound transudate is not required. Predictable absorption. Polyglactin 910 has been found to be inert, n...
Company:Ethicon, Inc.

Stretchable in Biological News

University of Miami engineer designs stretchable electronics with a twist

CORAL GABLES, FL (January 21, 2008)- Jizhou Song, a professor in the University of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators Professor John Rogers, at the University of Illinois and Professor Yonggang Huang, at Northwestern University have developed a new design for stretchable electroni...

Bones at the nanoscale

...t the molecular level. The re-sults are published this week in the PNAS online edition. A bone is made up of two different elements: half of it is a stretchable fibrous protein called collagen and the other half a brittle mineral phase called apatite. These com-ponents make this biomineralized tissue highly st...

Stretchable in Biological Technology

Stretchable silicon camera next step to artificial retina

... CHAMPAIGN, Ill. By combining stretchable optoelectronics and biologically inspired design, scientists have created a...or" and other popular science fiction. "Conformally wrapping surfaces with stretchable sheets of optoelectronics provides a practical route for integrating well-d...

Penn researchers demonstrate a flexible, 1-step assembly of nanoscale structures

...ith the performance of devices. However, these instabilities are now being exploited to assemble complex patterns, to fabricate novel devices such as stretchable electronics and flexible microlenses and to provide a metrology for measuring elastic moduli and the thickness of ultrathin films. PDMS membranes ...

Foldable and stretchable, silicon circuits conform to many shapes

...IGN, Ill. Scientists have developed a new form of stretchable silicon integrated circuit that can wrap around co...oup reported the development of a one-dimensional, stretchable form of single-crystal silicon with micron-sized, ...al strains during bending. To create their fully stretchable integrated circuits, the researchers begin by appl...