Researchers utilize inexpensive materials to combine qualities that are rarely found together in manufactured products.

Driving home the point that one should never throw anything away [Peter] built a flex sensor from component packing material. It uses the black conductive foam in which integrated circuits are ...

Davidson said annealing also enables self-healing properties of the material. As part of the work, the researchers can cut a flexible sample of the printed plastic and reattached it by annealing ...