University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Geckos inspire new method to print electronics on complex surfaces

Geckos are masters at sticking to surfaces of all kinds and easily unsticking themselves, too. Inspired by these lizards, a team of engineers has developed a reversible adhesion method for printing electronics on a variety of tricky surfaces such as clothes, plastic and leather.

New PV physics promises higher efficiency

Researchers from three institutions are uniting under a three-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to boost the output of solar cells.

NSF-funded project aims to grab more sun for solar cells

University of Oregon-led project with Oregon State and University of Illinois will involve a three-year push.

Scientists strive to replace silicon with graphene on nanocircuity

Scientists have made a breakthrough toward creating nanocircuitry on graphene, widely regarded as the most promising candidate to replace silicon as the building block of transistors.

The truly integrated circuit is printed and flexible

For 40 years, so called integrated circuits have integrated little more than transistors, diodes and sensors onto one piece of material but now there are much more integrated circuits arriving where most electrical and electronic components are co-deposited on flexible substrates. Those flexible substrates are key, because this new electronics will be affordable and desirable on everything from apparel to human skin and electrical and consumer packaged goods, where surfaces are only rarely flat.

Harvesting fluid power for an ankle-foot orthosis

A self-contained, self-controlled, pneumatic power harvesting ankle-foot orthosis (PhAFO) to manage foot-drop has been developed and tested by a group of scientists from the University of Illinois and Georgia Institute of Technology.

Researchers make new electronics - with a twist

Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois have created electronics that can be twisted.

The backpacker's diary with flexible screen

The Backpacker's diary is a PC concept that integrates with the form of a traditional book.

'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality

Researchers created a flexible circuit containing more than 100 transistors, the largest nanonet ever produced and the first demonstration of a working nanonet circuit.