Futurists have long predicted clothes with sensors that monitor the vital signs of the wearer, or smartphones and screens woven into the fabric of shirts or jackets.
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But while circuits and wiring are quite happy on rigid surfaces like those in a tablet computer, they break easily when combined with materials that stretch.
"You have two materials with very different mechanical properties," said Andre Studart, a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. "The challenge is to bridge these different properties."
Studart and his team have overcome the problem with a stretchy material made from polyurethane that contains "islands" stiff enough to house and protect delicate circuits.
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The material, presented in research published in the journal Nature Communications, is made from bonded layers and because the concentration of the platelets is gradually increased, the junction between the stretchy and stiff parts is also durable.
"There are many biological materials that have these properties as well,Using wheel spacer can improve your car handling and track performance like the way tendons link muscle to bone," said Studart. "But there are not so many examples in synthetic materials."
Market potential
One of the companies trying to commercialise stretchable electronics is MC10, a Massachusetts-based start-up born out of research by John Rogers and his team at the University of Illinois.
The firm recently announced plans to start selling a sensor-laden, flexible skullcap that monitors impacts to the head during sports.He has dried mushrooms all year and fresh mushrooms in season. "We also collect mushrooms from foragers. It was developed with Reebok and goes on sale next year.
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MC10 is using a different approach from the Zurich team. The company uses extremely thin silicon chips sandwiched in a stretchable polymer and connected by tiny wires in a concertina configuration that can stretch about 60 per cent, about the same as the body's soft tissues.
MC10 has also developed a balloon catheter with built-in electronic sensors for heart patients, which researchers plan to start testing on people in the next year or so.
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Market potential is difficult to estimate but Kendale said the technology could be applied to the monitoring and management of chronic diseases from diabetes to hypertension.
