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Artificial skin

29 Jan 2019

Good news for burn victims, artificial skin could help them 'feel'

The skin`s ability to perceive pressure, heat, cold, and vibration is a critical safety function that most people take for granted, says study.

Prosthetic limbs

31 Jan 2017

This heat-sensitive artificial skin may help amputees sense temperature again

While fabricating synthetic woods in a petri dish, the team led by California Institute of Technology's Chiara Daraio created a material that exhibited an electrical response to temperature changes in the laboratory.

Artificial skin

02 Apr 2016

Artificial functional skin may help burn victims

Once the tissue had differentiated, the scientists transplanted them out of those mice and into the skin tissue of other mice, where the tissues developed normally as integumentary tissue - the tissue between the outer and inner skin that is responsible for much of the function of the skin in terms of hair shaft eruption and fat excretion.

Electronic films

01 Mar 2016

Stretchable electronic films could revolutionise wearable devices

The new films that are almost as flexible as rubber could be used in artificial skin, connected clothing and on-body sensors.

Artificial skin

22 Feb 2016

Paper-based multifunctional artificial skin could transform medicine, robotics

The flexible, paper-based skin is layered onto a post-it note, with paper, aluminium foil, lint-free wipes, and pencil lines acting as sensing components.

Artificial skin

09 Nov 2015

Artificial skin to give people with prosthetics sense of touch

Researchers have developed a new artificial skin that can 'feel' similar to the way a fingertip senses pressure, and may help people perceive sensation in their prosthetic limbs.

16 Oct 2015

Scientists create artificial 'skin' that could feel sensation

This is the first time a flexible, skin-like material has been able to detect pressure and also transmit a signal to a component of the nervous system.

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