As a member of the Manufacturing USA national institutes, NextFlex is the home for developing manufacturing capabilities for flexible hybrid electronics (FHE), from health care to sensors and much more. Formed in 2015 as a partnership between the US Department of Defense and FlexTech Alliance, NextFlex has an interest in governmental applications.

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What happens when you combine the strength of the American worker with investment in cutting-edge science and technology? Innovations capable of changing the world.

Manufacturing USA®, a network of 14 manufacturing institutes across the United States, does just that. Each of its public-private partnerships enables precompetitive collaboration...

Adhesive patches that monitor your health by analyzing chemicals in your sweat. A flexible sheet of radio-receiving electronics you can bend into different shapes to pick up different wavelengths, nicknamed the “ origami antenna.” A strength-boosting exoskeleton that detects the tiny electrical charge just before your muscles flex, then moves with...

Governments worldwide are partnering with industry and academia to boost research into the field of printed and flexible electronics. For example, the European Union (EU) has put considerable financial resources into a host of projects. In the US, the most notable project is NextFlex, which is helping to advance manufacturing capabilities for...

Chances are, unless it's a super-hot day or you're just about to deliver a speech in front of hundreds of VIPs, you don't think much about your sweat. It's an inconvenience at best, an embarrassment at worse. But it's time to stop being sniffy about sweat: thanks to a new generation of sensor technologies, sweat is helping to unlock the secrets of...