Fibers that can hear and sing: Yoel Fink’s research group creates revolutionary optical fibers that interact with their surroundings in new ways

In the August issue of Nature Materials, Yoel Fink’s research group in RLE announce a new milestone on the path to functional fibers: fibers that can detect and produce sound. Applications could include clothes that are themselves sensitive microphones, for capturing speech or monitoring bodily functions, and tiny filaments that could measure blood flow in capillaries or pressure in the brain. «more»

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Fibers that can hear and sing: MIT researchers pass a milestone on the path to sophisticated fibers that interact with their surroundings in new ways

Professor Yoel Fink

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