An engineering team at Jiangxi Normal University, in collaboration with South China University of Technology, reports an entropy-driven strategy to construct low-topology-entropy silicone elastomers (LTE-SEs) in the journal Wearable Electronics. The materials achieve ultra-softness and ultra-high stretchability while maintaining high strength, and are successfully applied in skin-conformal flexible encapsulation, UV-protection patches, and fully encapsulated safety-positioning insoles, providing a new generation of substrate materials for long-term, comfortable, and reliable wearable electronics. 

New review outlines how large AI models are solving core challenges in analyzing complex optical images, enabling advanced applications in healthcare, earth observation, and industrial automation.

New smart surfaces, known as metasurfaces, can shape and utilize light to activate cells in the body, offering a gentle and wireless approach to treating health conditions. By manipulating light for medicine and biomedical devices, they enable treatments for vision, hearing, heart, and neurological disorders. Combined with virtual reality and advanced controls, these tools could help doctors design non-invasive and personalized treatments for a wide range of medical needs.

Want faster internet from space? A new study shows how smarter satellite layouts can boost both data and computing power—cutting costs while improving coverage.