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Dan O'Brien

Dan O'Brien is a PhD student contributor to Physics World. He is studying at Georgetown University, US, conducting research on flexible, transdermal biosensors for monitoring health. Dan is passionate about science communication, especially as it pertains to promoting health and battling climate change. On the rare occasion he leaves the lab, he's usually biking, hiking or bricking fadeaways on the court.

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Honeycomb-like nanopatterning boosts efficiency of ultrathin solar panels

“Hyperuniform disordered” design delivers 66.5% solar absorption

Fermentation turns greenhouse gases into useful chemicals

A new carbon-negative process produces industrial-scale quantities of acetone and isopropanol

From form comes function: moving from random to deterministic organoid patterning

A method for extrinsically controlling stem cells’ differentiation arises from geometrical constraints in the cells’ microenvironment

Magnetoelastic material sustainably powers health monitors using body movement

A soft and flexible material exploits magnetoelasticity to efficiently power wearable and implantable medical devices

I spy: a virtual reality system in the MRI

Immersive virtual reality video game leaves users without any perception of having entered an MRI machine

Brain–machine interface turns thoughts into actions

Wireless system integrates painlessly with a user’s scalp to classify motor imagery brain signals

Robotic thumb changes how the brain ‘sees’ the hand

Tests with a 3D-printed “Third Thumb” demonstrate the potential feasibility of future body augmentation technologies

Wireless device eases blood-pressure monitoring for children in intensive care

Skin‐interfaced device monitors blood pressure without the need for invasive arterial catheters

Direct in-muscle bioprinting can treat massive trauma injuries

Printing a biological scaffold directly into injured muscles promotes regeneration, paving the way to rapid treatment of large muscle mass loss

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