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All rights reserved. 1-800-633-0405 the #1 value in automation Free Info at http://info.hotims.com/69509-705 Contents 40 Water-Repellent Nanotextures Possess Anti-Fogging Capability 49 Location Awareness Algorithm for Internet of Things Devices 41 Modified, 3D-Printable Alloy for Flexible Electronics and Soft Robots 49 Simulation Technique Models Material-Aging Process 42 Manufacturing & Prototyping 42 3D Printing of All-Liquid 3D Structures Product of the Month 42 Diamond Pellet Grinding Tool Pepperl+Fuchs (Twinsburg, OH) introduced the R200 and R201 photoelectric sensors 43 Printing Flexible, Stretchable Silver Nanowire Circuits that connect via smart sensor profiles for easy integration. 44 Method 3D-Prints Marine-Grade Stainless Steel 45 Health & Biotech 52 45 Non-Invasive Diabetes Monitoring Patch 45 Ingestible Sensors Powered by Stomach Acid 46 Self-Powered Paper Patch Measures Glucose On the cover 47 Portable Brain Imaging System An increase in computing performance has been achieved by squeezing more and more transistors into a 47 Mobile Phone Detection of Atrial Fibrillation tighter space on microchips, leading to an “interconnect bottleneck” that slows down communication between 48 Software different parts of the chip. MIT (Cambridge, MA) devel- oped a semiconductor material device that uses light, 48 Information Sharing Protocol VCR (ISPVCR) rather than wires, to communicate between different parts of a chip, eliminating the interconnect