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Chemistry World March 22, 2013 Melissae Fellet	Painting circuits on skin Painting a patient's skin with a liquid metal ink could make heart monitoring much less painful and even let doctors keep an eye on a whole range of vital signs.
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Chemistry World September 2, 2015 Carolyn Devlin	Shrinking hydrogel reinforces fabric for soft yet strong material A hydrogel -- fabric composite that can support a load almost three times greater than the fabric alone has been made by scientists.
Chemistry World September 5, 2012 Hayley Birch	Tougher hydrogels to rival rubber The gels, which may eventually find applications in contact lenses and tissue engineering, are 10 times tougher than cartilage and can stretch to 20 times their original length without suffering permanent damage.
Chemistry World June 2, 2011 Tamsin Phillips	Swimming with sensors Sensors printed onto the sleeves of wetsuits could alert the wearer to contaminated water. Navy divers could also use the sensors to locate underwater explosives, such as mines.
Chemistry World September 25, 2015 Emma Stoye	3D printer uses gel matrix to tie the knot Researchers have found a way to 3D print 'impossible' shapes -- including a thin tube tied in a knot -- out of soft materials by injecting the inks into a gel that solidifies and traps them in place.
Chemistry World May 22, 2014 Elisabeth Bowley	Super strong hydrogel Researchers from China have accidently discovered a super strong, super stretchy hydrogel, which has the potential to be used in tissue engineering.
Chemistry World October 13, 2015 Thadchajini Retneswaran	Alginate bolsters 3D-printed hydrogel fix for damaged knees A team from Texas in the US has developed a super tough biomaterial that could be used to print load-bearing body parts such as knee cartilage.
Chemistry World April 2, 2009 Michael Gross	Light-guided hydrogels direct cell growth Researchers in the US have developed a gel-like material whose structural and chemical properties can change in response to laser light
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Neil Savage	Electronics on Anything Chemical trick puts solar cells and other electronics on rice paper, Saran wrap, and more practical things, too
Chemistry World November 4, 2011 Holly Sheahan	Polymer based sensors feeling the strain Researchers in China have made a new strain sensor to monitor the safety of buildings and other structures.
Technology Research News December 3, 2003	Carbon boosts plastic circuits Researchers from the California Institute of Technology have devised an inexpensive way to add better-conducting organic source and drain electrodes to organic thin-film transistors.
Chemistry World September 18, 2015 Dannielle Whittaker	Connecting electrodes with light illuminates electrochemistry Scientists in Australia have lit the path towards replacing wires in electrochemical devices by using visible light to create electrical currents on a stabilized silicon semiconductor electrode.
Chemistry World December 21, 2015 Tim Wogan	Doped electrodes cram charge into supercapacitors A new supercapacitor electrode material has been created by Chinese researchers that can store much more energy than conventional supercapacitors.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Willie D. Jones	Fiber to the Brain Nanotech researchers have devised a method for attaching electrodes to small clusters of brain cells -- or even individual neurons -- using the cardiovascular system as the conduit through which wires are threaded.
Chemistry World Jon Cartwright	Rollerball Writes Electronics Straight to Paper Electronic circuits can be fiddly to make: engineers have to snap components onto a board or etch designs onto a copper surface. Now a US group of researchers has demonstrated that all you really need is a pen and some paper.
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Neil Savage	Electronic Cotton Circuits could be woven from conductive and semiconducting natural fibers
Chemistry World February 6, 2013 Jennifer Newton	Electricity at your fingertips Scientists in South Korea have made a conducting polymer as part of a thin-film thermoelectric device that can generate electricity from the temperature difference between your fingertips and the environment.
Chemistry World December 21, 2012 Laura Howes	DNA hydrogel has a long memory It might look like a pink gloopy liquid to begin with but when you pour Dan Lou's DNA hydrogel into water it spontaneously reforms into its original shape.
Chemistry World June 24, 2013 Emma Stoye	Miniature battery a first for 3D printing Researchers in the US have created a lithium-ion battery the size of a grain of sand, the first to be manufactured by 3D printing.
Chemistry World December 10, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Platinum plating at the flick of a switch Atom thick catalytic layers of platinum can be deposited on surfaces from solution rapidly and cheaply thanks to a new technique developed by US scientists.
Chemistry World November 27, 2015 Philippa Matthews	Root and branch reform of roses show off organic electronics Roses have been transformed into living electronic circuits by introducing semi-conductive polymers into the channels that transport water and nutrients.
Chemistry World January 7, 2011 Russell Johnson	Sticky hydrogels make resilient wound dressings An adhesive material made from a hydrogel filled with nanoparticles could lead to wound dressings that won't fall off when you sweat.
Chemistry World May 26, 2011 James Mitchell Crow	Polymer caterpillar crawls in humid weather A polymer-based device that can walk caterpillar-like across a surface has been developed by researchers in China.
Chemistry World June 20, 2010 Jon Cartwright	Carbon nanotubes boost battery power Researchers in the US claim to have created electrodes from carbon nanotubes that can make lithium-ion batteries some ten times more powerful than conventional models.
Chemistry World October 11, 2012 Elinor Hughes	Cotton thread to monitor athletes' dehydration Scientists in Italy have integrated a device to monitor the salt concentration of sweat into a cotton fiber. The fiber can then be embedded into cloth and could be used to monitor hydration levels in athletes by measuring how much they are sweating.
Chemistry World July 31, 2008	Breakthrough Catalyst for Splitting Water Scientists say they have solved a fundamental problem hampering renewable energy generation - how to split water cheaply into oxygen and hydrogen, under benign conditions, so that the gases can be stored as fuels.
Chemistry World September 10, 2012 Andy Extance	Sweaty Buildings Cool Themselves Covering the roofs of buildings with a hydrogel could help them keep cool by sweating.
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Chemistry World August 22, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Conveyor belt hydrogel Chemists in Japan have developed an oscillating polymer gel that produces 'waves' which can push or pump a cargo along its surface.
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Chemistry World October 23, 2011 David Bradley	Clicking Together Cultural Niches Researchers in the US have made three-dimensional hydrogels that are not only compatible with living cells but can be tuned to create specialist growing environments - culture niches - for studying cell function.
Chemistry World January 12, 2011 Amaya Camara-Campos	Artificial intestine for gut studies Three-dimensional hydrogel scaffolds for studying cells under realistic physiological conditions have been made by scientists from the US and Korea to study drug absorption in the gut.
Chemistry World April 21, 2015 James Urquhart	Plant-inspired plastics take shape Shape-shifting plastics which respond to external stimuli, similar to how Venus flytraps ensnare prey and touch-me-nots fold their leaves inwards when touched, have come a step closer thanks to a new polymer.
Chemistry World December 6, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Chemists Make Fullerene Necklace Spanish scientists have strung fullerene buckyballs together to produce a polymer with unique electronic properties. The creation of these polymers has demonstrated a new approach to designing novel materials.