At the interface of soft materials and electronics. Highlights from the July 2023 edition Wearable monitor detects stress hormone levels across a full day Early warning signs of diseases caused by dysfunctional levels of stress hormones could be spotted more easily owing to a new wearable device developed by endocrine researchers in Europe. Award for stretchable, heat-conductive smart textile A soft, breathable and stretchable smart textile that warms up in 30 seconds with a 5V2A power bank has received the Excellence in Technology Adoption Special Award at the HKMA/HKT Global Innovation Award 2022/23. Patch uses nanomagnets to detect muscle movement Using nanomagnets composites and conductive yarn, scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles have invented a smart textile that can sense and measure body movements, from muscles flexing to veins pulsing. To request a free sample of the July issue with the full stories, please email the address below with your company name and email address. Textile Media Services Ltd, UK Tel: +44 1603 308158 Email: info@textilemedia.com Web: textilemedia.com...

Shailesh Patel | Senior Vice President Product Management
Printed Energy, early-stage US based hard science company with deep expertise in electro chemistry, printed electronics, and manufacturing automation. The current focus is on flexible, printed, and thin batteries integrated into fully built-up circuits for a complete device such as active RFID. These batteries are non-toxic, environmentally friendly and can be manufactured in any shape and size based on customer requirements. Some of the applications include, smart tags and labels, wearables, medical supplies, tags for timed sporting events, and many other internet of things (IoT) uses. Even though Printed Energy is starting to enter the market, the team has been working on development of thin printed batteries for many years. The unique value that Printed Energy brings to its customer is the ability to manufacture fully integrated device that is cost competitive with coin-cell battery devices. Our proprietary manufacturing line allows us to enter the market and deliver high quality devices at a highly competitive price. Printed Energy’s initial product offering includes delivering disposable Active RFID tag solutions to an existing market with roadmap that includes Semi-Passive tags, temperature loggers and wearable cosmetic/medical patches....

Pradeep Lall | Professor & Director...

David Lafourcade | Business Development Manager Belink Solutions has capitalized a strong knowledge of high volume manufacturing capabilities in conventional electronics as well as screen printing solutions.

We design and produce from POC to mass production, flexible, expandable electronics, as well as 2D and 3D printed electronics with components or even modules!

We manage the complete manufacturing process from screen printing to the final 2D or 3D shape in-house! Join us and the global community in Berlin on 17-18 OCT 2023. Lets RESHAPE the Future of Electronics, making it Additive, Sustainable, Wearable, and 3D. Explore the programme here https://www.techblick.com/electronicsreshaped...

Steliyan Vasilev ​ Embroidery is a textile manufacturing technique that has its roots in historic hand-stitched garment design. However, with the invention of computers, this textile manufacturing technique has seen a resurgence due to its high levels of material optimization. Embroidery allows the textile engineer to place single fibers, yarns, fiber bundles, or even wires with high precision in a variable, predesigned geometry. Because of this high precision, embroidery is highly applicable for integrating functionality into textiles through textile sensors, actuators, or electrodes. Three types of embroidery technologies are commonly used and defined in the literature. These include chain and moss stitch embroidery, standard embroidery as well as tailored fiber, wire, or tube placement. Each of these methods can be utilized in varying ways for the mass production of smart textiles. The embroidery technology offers enormous possibilities for the automatic integration of conductive fibers and electronic components into textiles to create e-textiles. E-textiles are in development for decades but only a few products could make it to the market. The main reason for this lack of products on the market is the high production costs. Manual production steps increase the production costs and lead to high product costs. Furthermore, reproducibility cannot be guaranteed or manually created products. The high level of automation of the embroidery process finally allows the mass product...

Ravinder Dahiya | Professor,President,Fellow, Leader
The miniaturization-based advances in electronics have revolutionized computing and communication. through high-performance planar electronics. However, electronics on planar and stiff substrates does not go well with several emerging applications (e.g., robots, wearables and vehicles, digital health etc.). These applications require electronics with high-performance (similar to the conventional silicon technology-based devices), flexible form-factors, and devices embedded in soft and squishy materials. The need for resource efficient manufacturing has also added new challenges to this field. This lecture will present some of the key technologies that are being explored to attain above features and their readiness for commercialisation. In particular, the talk will focus on high-mobility semiconducting nanostructures-based printed CMOS electronics. The methods for printing nano to cm scale structures (e.g., transfer printing, contact printing and direct-roll transfer printing etc.) will be presented along with the devices developed using them and future directions....

Stefan Ernst | CEO The demand for printed sensors is constantly growing over the last few years. Of special importance for various industrial applications are force sensors. They measure stress or bending along one or more axis. Conventional sensors need a time consuming gluing process to mount the sensor onto the substrate. The force sensors from binder are printed directly onto the component where measuring is needed.
For three dimensional or structured substrates pad printing is used. The challenge of this printing process is to apply a defined electrical resistor with high precision and reproducibility. The resistance can be adapted to typical conventional sensor values of 350 or 1kΩ. A typical line width is 80- 100 µm and a layer thickness of 8-15 µm. Normally a full bridge design is printed in order to compensate for thermal drifts. Different designs allow the customer to measure bending of the substrate, stress along an axis or torque. Typical K factors are between 2- 4 depending on the composition of the printing paste.
To connect the sensor with the analysis unit a great variety of connection methods can be applied. A simple solution is conductive glue. Sensors on a copper basis can also be connected via a low temperature soldering process. Join us and the global community in Berlin on 17-18 OCT 2023. Lets RESHAPE the Future of Electronics, making it Additive, Sustainable, Wearable, and 3D. Explore the programme here https://www.techblick.com/electronicsreshape...

One of most exciting and innovative companies in Printed Electronics is hiring! 🎉 Syenta are looking for three new amazing people in the following roles: - Senior Mechanical Engineer 🔧 - Materials Engineer (Electrochemistry) ⚡ - Software Engineer 🖥 Check out the roles available on our website here: www.syenta.com.au/careers Reach out to us at info@syenta.com.au if you have any questions! 😊 You can below see a presentation of what Syenta is upto to give you a good sense Their team will also be in Berlin so join us to meet them https://www.techblick.com/electronicsreshaped...