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...

The Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI, Huntington, W.Va., U.S.) has announced the creation of a new apprenticeship training program for composite technicians, that was recently approved by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Introduced by Lucinda Curry, workforce director at RCBI, at an Aug. 21 meeting of the Composites Coalition in Chattanooga, Tenn., U.S...

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...

When you think about manufacturing, most of us probably have a fairly outdated picture in our head. There's a movement in Youngstown trying to update that mental image and perhaps give you a sense of hometown pride in the process.

"There's a lot of intelligent people in my hometown and I think people need to see that," said Zac DiVencenzo, the...