June 11, 2006

New Material Sensitive as Human Skin

"The sensitive sheet was produced by encouraging microscopic particles to bond to the sensor surface by dipping the materials in a series of chemical baths. The resulting material is only about a hundred nanometers thick. When something touches it, the pressure changes the current in the sheet, and the affected particles in the sheet light up."

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