Researchers have created highly conductive and durable silver nanowire ink that can be used to print durable electronic circuits on paper.

The technology is being touted by the researchers at the University of Tennessee as a breakthrough in making inexpensive, flexible, disposable electronic sensors that can be used for a wide range of medical purposes, as well as an “electronic skin” that can act as touchpad sensors on robotics.

Robots with electronic skin could, for example, go to a patient’s bedside and through touch, determine vital signs and other diagnostic data, or a patient could use the skin as a touch pad to alert medical staff or find information.

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