Small Structures

- Prof. Kim Bong-hoon’s team implements a smart fabric-based sensor that can collect sweat automatically and analyze multiple biosignals simultaneously. - It measures electrolytes, metabolites, and movement all at once using minute amounts of sweat: Customized healthcare is expected. - The paper was selected as a cover article in “Small Structures,” a prestigious international journal in the field of nanotechnology and materials science.

Move over lithium-ion batteries – researchers found a creative way to combine materials (lithium metal and a ceramic surface) that may prove to be better for energy storage used in electric vehicles and portable electronics.

Researchers at National Taiwan University developed a unified model that explains how thickness, defects, interface quality, and roughness together control the behavior of ultrathin oxide transistors. The work provides practical design rules for building low-leakage, normally-off devices suitable for future 3D chip stacking.

A joint team from National Taiwan University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has developed a novel hydrogel actuator whose movement can be programmed using UV light, enabling precise spatial control of thermoresponsive deformation for presenting a potential application in soft robotics and in vitro muscle models.

A new hybrid surface design improves condensation heat transfer even at high temperature differences.

Researchers at Jilin University, China, reviewed recent progress in the study of Salvinia leaves and their artificial replicas.