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IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Sarah Adee	Artificial Arm Researchers Restore Feeling of Missing Limb New knowledge will let amputees control and feel with robotic arms.
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Popular Mechanics July 2007 Erik Sofge	DARPA's Better Bionic Arm: Our Most Limb-Like Prosthetic In a first for prosthetics, a new mechanical arm gives its user the sense of touch.
Chemistry World September 14, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Artificial skin gets touchy New ways of incorporating pressure sensors into large, flexible surfaces which could one day provide robots or people fitted with artificial hands with a delicate sense of touch
Technology Research News September 22, 2004 Eric Smalley	Flexible Sensors Make Robot Skin Researchers have devised pressure-sensor arrays that promise to give objects like rugs and robots the equivalent of one aspect of skin -- pressure sensitivity.
Chemistry World December 12, 2014 Anthony King	Smart skin for prosthetic limbs senses heat and touch This new stretchable prosthetic skin comes equipped with ultra-thin, single crystalline silicon nanoribbon sensors for strain, pressure and temperature, as well as humidity sensors, heaters and stretchable multi-electrode arrays for nerve stimulation.
Chemistry World August 7, 2008	Elastic Conductor Stretches Electronics Scientists have printed organic transistors onto elastic conducting materials to create stretchy electronic sheets.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Sally Adee	Winner: The Revolution Will Be Prosthetized Darpa's prosthetic arm gives amputees new hope
Chemistry World July 2010 Mike Brown	Special Report: Biomaterials revolution Materials for biomedical applications in the 21st century are big business, with researchers developing advanced plastics for implants and carbon fibre for prosthetic limbs - materials that are much stronger, lighter and more durable.
National Defense April 2012 Eric Beidel	Prosthetic Arm Controlled by Brain Wounded warriors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center recently used a new prosthetic arm that they can control with their thoughts.
Technology Research News April 20, 2005	Nanotube Chemical Sensor Gains Speed Researchers have made single-walled carbon nanotube chemical sensors that transmit information by measuring the charge in the nanotubes' capacitance, or ability to store electric charge.
Technology Research News December 3, 2003	Nanotubes detect nerve gas Naval Research Laboratory researchers have found that carbon nanotubes are sensitive to extremely small concentrations -- less than one part per billion -- of chemical nerve agents.
Technology Research News November 19, 2003	Nanotubes fortify plastic film Researchers have developed an inexpensive process for making a nanotube-polymer composite that allows for close control of the density and position of the nanotubes.
Technology Research News September 22, 2004	Plastics Ease Nanotube Circuits Researchers have devised a way to make a random, self-assembled network of carbon nanotubes embedded in polymer that preserves the nanotubes' electrical conductivity and is suitable for thermal printing processes.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Sally Adee	For those without hands, there's Air Guitar Hero DARPA project repurposes Guitar Hero to train amputees to use artificial arms
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Sarah Adee	Dean Kamen's Luke Arm Prosthesis Readies for Clinical Trials DARPA may decide the fate of Dean Kamen's next-generation prosthetic arm.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Prachi Patel-Predd	Artificial Joints That Talk Smart technology could reduce risks of hip and knee replacement surgery.
PC Magazine April 5, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Flexed Researchers have come up with a new polymer material that could usher bendable displays into widespread use.
PC Magazine March 10, 2004 Alexandra Robbins	Beyond Sensible Shoes Smart Skin, still in development, is made of a flexible material embedded with microsensors that mimic the signal sending of nerve cells. The sensors, which wirelessly communicate with receiving devices, can already monitor temperature and infrared radiation and are expected to detect pressure, touch, and even vital signs.
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Willie D. Jones	Fueling a Robotic Arms Race Rocket propellant to make prosthetic arms better, stronger, faster.
PC Magazine June 6, 2008 Eric Griffith	Seven Technologies That Will Touch Your Life The future will be a feast for the senses, with breakthroughs that enhance computers' ability to hear, see, and even smell for us.
National Defense May 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Casualties of War Leading research at the Department of Veterans Affairs is aimed at helping soldiers who lost limbs in combat. At the core of this program are new technologies meant to seamlessly fuse prosthetics with the human body.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Jonathan Kuniholm	Open Arms What prosthetic-arm engineering is learning from open source, crowd-sourcing, and the video-game industry
National Defense April 2011 Eric Beidel	Army Contract Seeks Better Robotic Prosthetics The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency spent $100 million to develop a robotic arm that can be controlled through a chip in a user's brain.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John McHale	Purdue Researchers Look at Nanotechnology to Reduce Computer-Chip Heating University researchers are looking to mitigate electronic systems heating problems through the use of carbon nanotubes. They have created carpets of microscopic nanotubes to enhance the performance of heat sinks to help keep future chips from overheating.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009	Slideshow: The $71.2 Million Arm The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is spending at least US $71.2 million to reinvent prosthetic arms from the ground up.
Chemistry World September 9, 2010 Mike Brown	Electric shock resets nanotube sensor Sensors based on single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNTs) could be 'reset' at the simple flick of a switch, say researchers in the US.
Technology Research News February 9, 2005	Nanotubes on plastic speed circuits Many researchers are working to make plastic electronics that are as fast as today's silicon electronic components -- with the promise to enable flexible, inexpensive and very-large area computer screens. One group of researchers has taken a significant step closer to this goal.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2005 Dan Bloom	Ready for Some Carbon Nanotubing? Carbon nanotubes are going to show up in all sorts of high tech devices. Be ready for them.
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Monica Heger	Flexible, Printable Supercapacitor Built Printable electronics now have a printable energy-storage option
PC Magazine July 13, 2004 Cade Metz	Smart Skin The prototypeof this product has already demonstrated that it can monitor infrared radiation, which means it's also capable of tracking changes in body temperature. Future versions will respond to all sorts of other stimuli, such as touch and pressure.
Chemistry World November 12, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Terminator-style self-healing robot skin moves closer to reality Synthetic skin for robots that can repair itself when it becomes damaged -- akin to the idea of the T-800 cyborg in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator films -- has taken a step closer to reality with new research by scientists in the US.
Chemistry World April 2007 Jon Evans	Better, Stronger, Faster In the 1970s, the idea of building a bionic man was merely fantastical. Now we have bionic eyes and limbs, and chemists are creating artificial bodily tissues to rival nature's own.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004	Short Nanotubes Carry Big Currents Researchers have developed a simple way to fabricate carbon nanotube devices whose length is as small as ten nanometers, and have shown that electricity can pass through the nanotubes very efficiently.
Chemistry World March 10, 2010 Jon Cartwright	Nanotube 'fuse' generates power A fundamentally new type of power generation may be on the horizon thanks to researchers in the US and Korea who have created a nanotube 'fuse' that harnesses the energy from chemical reactions.
Chemistry World September 15, 2013 Laura Howes	Taking temperature with a temporary tattoo John Rogers of the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign and his team have just published their latest advance - creating a flexible wearable thermometer.
Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Nanotubes boost shape recovery Researchers have mixed carbon nanotubes with polymer to make a plastic that is good at springing back into shape when heated. The shape memory polymers could be used in practical applications in five years, according to the researchers.
Chemistry World December 2, 2010 Laura Howes	Nanotube material retains bounce at extreme Carbon nanotubes can make a rubber like material that remains usable in a temperature range of over one thousand degrees.
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley	Networking Neural Nanotubes Carbon nanotubes may be the key to building cyborg type interfaces between biology and electronics.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Neil Savage	Superstrong Artificial Muscles and More From New Nanotube Material Sheets of carbon nanotubes could make strong, stretchy artificial muscles with amazing properties
IEEE Spectrum December 2011 Strano & Kalantar-Zadeh	Nanodynamite Fuel-coated nanotubes could provide bursts of power to the smallest systems
Technology Research News June 30, 2004	Nanotubes boost neuron growth The method is a step toward neuron-electronic interfaces that would allow for direct biological control of computers and prosthetic devices.
Chemistry World July 24, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Nanotube mesh boosts plastic electronics Circuits on light, flexible surfaces could provide a range of products from paper-thin displays to intelligent food packaging and smart clothing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 Courtney E. Howard	Electronics miniaturization Nanotechnology and MEMS are ideal for mil-aero applications, given the increasing need for small, light weight, and low-power solutions.
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 John Boyd	Smart Sheet Combines Wireless Power Supply and Wireless Communications Tokyo engineers mix MEMS and organic electronics in a flexible plastic substrate for low-power link and wireless power for portables.
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Chang & Subramian	Electronic Noses Sniff Success E-noses will soon be ubiquitous, thanks to printed organic semiconductors.
Chemistry World May 7, 2014 Charlie Quigg	Shining a light on polymer welding Chinese chemists have created an epoxy that can be rapidly hardened and reshaped by shining a light on it.
Technology Research News October 8, 2003	Nanotubes boost storage Scientists from IBM Research in Zurich, Osaka Prefecture University in Japan, and the Japanese Nanotechnology Research Institute have advanced the possibilities of using multiwalled carbon nanotubes to make denser, more efficient data storage devices.
Chemistry World May 3, 2011 James Urquhart	Turning heat into electricity with polymers Swedish researchers have improved the thermoelectric efficiency of an organic conducting polymer by controlling the material's oxidation level, boosting the prospect of developing cheap, flexible and lightweight organic thermoelectric devices
Chemistry World October 17, 2010 Laura Howes	Twist and shine An international team of researchers has developed flexible sheets of tiny light emitting diodes that could be implanted under the skin like glowing tattoos and used in a range of biomedical applications.