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#News(IoTStack) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
One thin layer of paint like spray with a thickness of just 8 microns achieved 98 percent of its predicted maximum value, say researchers.
According to a report by researchers from the Drexel’s College of Engineering, the newfangled antennas are literally sprayed on fabrics and other material from a can of two-dimensional metal called MXene, reports Phys.org.
“There is a lot of potential for this type of technology,” said Kapil Dandekar, director of the Drexel Wireless Systems Lab, and co-author of the research.
The ability to spray an antenna, he explained, on a flexible matter or even make it transparent means that networks can now be set up in new regions and places that were far out of reach. In fact, he added, “there are new applications and new ways of collecting data that we can’t even imagine at the moment.”
Researchers who developed this tech claim that MXene titanium carbide can even be dissolved in water to make an ink or paint like substance. The conductivity of the material is strong enough, claim its makers, that it can actually transmit and direct radio waves even when the layer is really thin—in the of tens of nanometers
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