Prof. Hongjie Dai et al developed a new battery chemistry with 6 times higher energy density, which may lead to longer battery life for future wearables, hearing aids and cell phones.
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Prof. Amin Arbabian et al present the first known instance of a silicon IC being used as the output stage of the transmitter for a thermoacoustic imaging system.
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Prof. Steven Collins, Prof. Scott Delp, Prof. Mykel Kochenderfer and Patrick Slade present a wearable system that estimates metabolic energy expenditure in real-time during common steady-state and time-varying activities with substantially lower error than state-of-the-art methods.
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Prof. Eric Pop et al describe flexible nanoscale field effect transistors based on 2D semiconductors, such as MoS2, MoSe2 and WSe2, their fabrication, and properties.
Read more about High-performance flexible nanoscale transistors based on transition metal dichalcogenides