Hardware Podcasts

64. Solution To The Plastic Problem & Smart Fabrics

The Next Byte Podcast · 5 Apr 2022 · 29m

What this episode covers

Hosts Daniel and Farbod discuss two major material science breakthroughs: a new recycling method for plastics developed by Dr. Athena Anastasaki’s team at ETH Zurich, and smart fabrics created by a multi-organizational team led by the University of Cambridge. They explain how reversible polymerization can restore PMMA to its original strength, and how conductive threads and fiber supercapacitors enable flexible, battery-free wearable displays and sensors.

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makers and hobbyists

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ETH Zurich, University of Cambridge, Mouser Electronics, Sam Sarah, Australian National University
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PMMA

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