Spray-On Nanotubes for Inexpensive Sensors
December 24, 2013 | Terry Sharrer
This piece, about carbon nanotubes in an aqueous solution that can be sprayed onto any kind of substrate (e.g. cloth, flexible plastic) to create new kinds of sensors, mainly discusses applications in food packaging and environmental monitoring, but it takes little imagination to foresee how sensor-embedded materials might be useful in hospital sanitation, artificial skin, smart homes, organ transport packaging, regulated medical waste, bandages, and other healthcare related situations. MORE
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