Research Highlights

Researchers customize new dynamic polymers for stretchable batteries, highlighting a supramolecular design to resolve the trade-off between ion transport and mechanical properties.

Researchers used rational design to build a highly conductive, stretchable and photo-patternable material for use in bioelectronics.

Researchers have created a new approach to simultaneously achieve mechanical robustness, facile patternability and high electrical performance for polymer electronic materials.

Stanford researchers have developed a technique that reprograms cells to use synthetic materials to build artificial structures able to carry out functions inside the body.

Stanford researchers have designed a new electrolyte for lithium metal batteries that could increase the driving range of electric cars.

Stanford researchers have developed a method to genetically reprogram cells to build artificial structures.

The experimental device promises to provide a safe and comfortable power source for technologies that must bend and flex with our bodies.

Doctors and researchers are equipped with objective tests to detect and measure many serious illnesses. But when it comes to mental illness, no such tests exist.

Researchers invented a new coating that could finally make lightweight lithium metal batteries safe and long lasting, which could usher in the next generation of electric vehicles.

Stanford engineers have developed experimental stickers that pick up physiological signals emanating from the skin, then wirelessly beam these health readings to a receiver.

Stanford engineers have developed an electronic glove containing sensors that could one day give robotic hands the sort of dexterity that humans take for granted.

Hydrogel electrodes could improve the accuracy of readings from heart and nerve cells.