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Drexel University: Spray-on Antennas Could Unlock Potential of Smart, Connected Technology

Antennas made from a type of two-dimensional, metallic material called MXene.

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy editor, New York Post

The promise of wearables, functional fabrics, the Internet of Things, and their “next-generation” technological cohort seems tantalizingly within reach. But researchers in the field will tell you a prime reason for their delayed “arrival” is the problem of seamlessly integrating connection technology—namely, antennas—with shape-shifting and flexible “things.” But a breakthrough by researchers in Drexel’s College of Engineering could now make installi...

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