After the Lecture: 'Skin sensor' researcher Zhenan Bao

Stanford University's Zhenan Bao takes on research challenges that she knows are many years away from reaching the general public: new and inexpensive solar cells, ultra-sensitive explosives detectors, sensors that can detect something as light as a fly landing on them, and flexible sensor "skin" that could one day be wrapped around prosthetic limbs. Bao, who was born in China but moved to the U.S. during college, has been supported by several National Science Foundation (NSF) awards. ... More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=241863&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=clickThis is an NSF News item.

Source: NSF News - May 9, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news