Contact lenses that can monitor your health as well as correct your eyesight aren't science fiction, but an efficient manufacturing method -- finding a way to produce the curved lenses with embedded electronics -- has remained elusive.
Until now. A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the University of Colorado Boulder has reported developing a new manufacturing method, known as conformal additive stamp printing, or CAS printing, to produce the lenses, solar cells and other three-dimensional curvy electronics. The work, reported in the journal Nature Electronics, demonstrates the use of the manufacturing technique to produce a number of curvy devices not suited to current production methods. The work is also highlighted by the journal Nature.
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