'Materials That Compute' Advances as Pitt Engineers Demonstrate Pattern Recognition
Friday, September 2, 2016 - 16:32
in Physics & Chemistry
The potential to develop "materials that compute" has taken another leap at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering, where researchers for the first time have demonstrated that the material can be designed to recognize simple patterns. This responsive, hybrid material, powered by its own chemical reactions, could one day be integrated into clothing and used to monitor the human body, or developed as a skin for "squishy" robots.