How Printed Electronics is Changing Consumer Goods

Achieving the impossible
Printed electronics employs state-of-the-art physics and chemistry to achieve what was thought impossible only recently. This is reflected in sessions such as one on “Healthcare and Bionic Man” and another on “Smart Substrates and Stretchable Electronics”. Electronics as art is covered as is a broad sweep of printed and thin film components, including ones potentially using graphene. Add the new metamaterials based on micropatterning by flexo printing. They promise the cloak of invisibility and previously impossible electrical, electronic and optical components. Pioneers Imperial College London reveal, “Metamaterials—for Super Lenses and Invisibility Cloaks from DC to Optics”.