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Researchers have developed an electronic rubber material that will help create soft, stretchy robots and electronics.
The material, given the nickname 'thubber,' can conduct heat and is also elastic in a similar way to biological tissue - and was even used by researchers to create a robotic fish with a 'thubber' tail.
The material can stretch to over six time its length and be used in heated garments for injury therapy as well as soft robotics and even flexible electronics such as an iPad that can fit into your wallet.
The researchers, based at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), said that the applications for this technology could extend to industries like athletic wear and sports medicine, for example lighted clothing for runners and heated garments for injury therapy.
Dr Carmel Majidi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at CMU and co-author of the study, said: 'Our combination of high thermal conductivity and elasticity is especially critical for rapid heat dissipation in applications such as wearable computing and soft robotics, which require mechanical compliance and stretchable functionality.'
The technology could also be applied to advanced manufacturing, energy and transportation sectors.
The technology could also be used to help make foldable electronic devices because normally high power devices inflexible surfaces to dissipate heat.
Dr Jonathan Malen, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at CMU and co-author of the study published in the journal PNAS, said: 'Until now, high power devices have had to be affixed to rigid, inflexible mounts that were the only technology able to dissipate heat efficiently.
'Now, we can create stretchable mounts for LED lights or computer processors that enable high performance without overheating in applications that demand flexibility, such as light-up fabrics and iPads that fold into your wallet.'
The key component in making 'thubber' is liquid metal droplets that are non-toxic.
When the metal is in its liquid state, it also deforms with the surrounding rubber at room temperature.
When the rubber is pre-stretched, the metal droplets form elongated pathways that heat can travel on.
Even though there's metal inside the material, the material is also electrically insulating.
The research team demonstrated their findings by mounting an LED onto a strip of the 'thubber' material to create a lamp worn around a jogger's leg.
The 'thubber' was able to dissipate the heat from the LED - which would have burned the jogger if simple attached to his leg without the thubber.
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/stretchable-thubber-could-give-electronics-soft-touch/
The material, given the nickname 'thubber,' can conduct heat and is also elastic in a similar way to biological tissue - and was even used by researchers to create a robotic fish with a 'thubber' tail.
The material can stretch to over six time its length and be used in heated garments for injury therapy as well as soft robotics and even flexible electronics such as an iPad that can fit into your wallet.
The researchers, based at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), said that the applications for this technology could extend to industries like athletic wear and sports medicine, for example lighted clothing for runners and heated garments for injury therapy.
Dr Carmel Majidi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at CMU and co-author of the study, said: 'Our combination of high thermal conductivity and elasticity is especially critical for rapid heat dissipation in applications such as wearable computing and soft robotics, which require mechanical compliance and stretchable functionality.'
The technology could also be applied to advanced manufacturing, energy and transportation sectors.
The technology could also be used to help make foldable electronic devices because normally high power devices inflexible surfaces to dissipate heat.
Dr Jonathan Malen, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at CMU and co-author of the study published in the journal PNAS, said: 'Until now, high power devices have had to be affixed to rigid, inflexible mounts that were the only technology able to dissipate heat efficiently.
'Now, we can create stretchable mounts for LED lights or computer processors that enable high performance without overheating in applications that demand flexibility, such as light-up fabrics and iPads that fold into your wallet.'
The key component in making 'thubber' is liquid metal droplets that are non-toxic.
When the metal is in its liquid state, it also deforms with the surrounding rubber at room temperature.
When the rubber is pre-stretched, the metal droplets form elongated pathways that heat can travel on.
Even though there's metal inside the material, the material is also electrically insulating.
The research team demonstrated their findings by mounting an LED onto a strip of the 'thubber' material to create a lamp worn around a jogger's leg.
The 'thubber' was able to dissipate the heat from the LED - which would have burned the jogger if simple attached to his leg without the thubber.
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/stretchable-thubber-could-give-electronics-soft-touch/
