Wireless, ultra-thin and battery-free strain sensors that are 10 times more sensitive
A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS), led by Assistant Professor Chen Po-Yen, has taken the first step towards improving the safety and precision of industrial robotic arms by developing a new range of nanomaterial strain sensors that are 10 times more sensitive when measuring minute movements, compared to existing technology.
Fabricated using flexible, stretchable, and electrically conductive nanomaterials called MXenes, these novel strain sensors developed by the NUS team are ultra-thin, battery-free and can transmit data wirelessly. With these desirable properties, the novel strain sensors can potentially be used for a wide range of applications.
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Dr Elsie Effah Kaufmann promoted to Associate Professor role at the University of Ghana
Dr Elsie Effah Kaufmann is mostly known for her role as the principal quiz mistress of the National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ).
However, beyond her quiz mistress role, she is actually a full-time lecturer at the University of Ghana, where she has just gained another career promotion.
Dr Kaufmann has been promoted from the senior lecturer rank to the Associate Professor rank.
She is assigned to the Department of Biomedical Engineering, a department she is credited to have founded and served as its head between 2006 and 2012, and between 2014 and 2016.
Albert Titus
UB researcher Albert H. Titus, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Fellowship, according to the NAI, is the highest professional distinction accorded by the organization to academic inventors who have demonstrated “a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.”
Titus is one of 175 researchers worldwide to be elected to the NAI this year.
“Albert Titus is a prolific investigator whose innovative research record spans a diverse array of fields, including artificial vision, hardware and software for artificial neural networks, optoelectronics and integrated sensor systems. He is a recognized leader in his field, with patents and scholarship that have contributed greatly to the advancement of technologies with great societal
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Today, in a special edition of Tech Today, we welcome faculty who started in the fall semester.
New faculty are listed by College.
Ricardo Eiris, PhD
Ricardo Eiris began his faculty appointment as an assistant professor of construction management for both the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the College of Business.
Eiris earned a PhD in design, construction and planning, and an MS in construction management from the Rinker School of Construction Management at the University of Florida. In addition, he has an MS in digital arts and sciences from the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida and an MS in civil engineering from the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment at the University of Florida.