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Researchers at AMBER, the SFI Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research, and from Trinity s School of Physics, have developed next-generation, graphene-based sensing technology using their innovative G-Putty material.
The team s printed sensors are 50 times more sensitive than the industry standard and outperform other comparable nano-enabled sensors in an important metric seen as a game-changer in the industry: flexibility.
Maximizing sensitivity and flexibility without reducing performance makes the teams technology an ideal candidate for the emerging areas of wearable electronics and medical diagnostic devices.
The team - led by Professor Jonathan Coleman from Trinity s School of Physics, one of the world s leading nanoscientists - demonstrated that they can produce a low-cost, printed, graphene nanocomposite strain sensor.
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Researchers in Ireland have developed a low-cost strain sensor made from a printable graphene nanocomposite that combines high sensitivity and flexibility without reducing performance.
G-putty based inks can be printed as a thin-film onto elastic substrates, including plasters, and attached easily to the skin (Image: Trinity College Dublin)
The team from Trinity College Dublin have created the next generation sensing technology using so-called G-Putty, an innovation from Trinity in which putty (polysilicone, found in children’s toy ‘silly putty’) is infused with graphene, making the material’s electrical resistance extremely sensitive to slight deformations.
Researchers at AMBER, the SFI Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research, and from Trinity's School of Physics, have developed next-generation, graphene-based sensing technology using their innovative G-Putty material.
Using a novel G-Putty material, scientists from AMBER, the SFI Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research, and from Trinity’s School of Physics have designed an advanced graphene-based sensing technology.
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Researchers at CRANN (The Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices), and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin, today announced that a magnetic material developed at the Centre demonstrates the fastest magnetic switching ever recorded.
The team used femtosecond laser systems in the Photonics Research Laboratory at CRANN to switch and then re-switch the magnetic orientation of their material in trillionths of a second, six times faster than the previous record, and a hundred times faster than the clock speed of a personal computer.
This discovery demonstrates the potential of the material for a new generation of energy efficient ultra-fast computers and data storage systems.