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Within touch of artificial skin

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Flexible arrays of transducers can now be fabricated with pressure sensitivity and response times approaching those of natural human skin.

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Figure 1: Artificial skin based on arrays of Ge/Si nanowires.
Figure 2: Flexible array of transducers on microstructured PDMS films.

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  1. John J. Boland is at the School of Chemistry and the CRANN Nanoscience Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. jboland@tcd.ie,

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