Ceramics with sensitivity: Soft sensors for the future

Empa researchers Frank Clemens and his team develop soft and intelligent sensors based on ceramic particles. Image: Empa DMZ – SCIENCE/ MM ¦ AA ¦ Dübendorf, St. Gallen and Thun – Ceramics is considered a hard and brittle material, but researchers in the laboratory for high-performance ceramics at the Swiss Federal Institute for Materials Testing and Research (Empa) are breaking with this idea. Under the direction of Dr. Frank Clemens, they devel…