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A simple burst of visible light can now create skin-safe electrodes that could transform medical and wearable electronics.

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"UMass Lowell is among the nation's leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, ...

Abstract: We establish the dataset of X-ray image for weld defects called WDXI. WDXI consists of 13,766 X-ray images, including seven significant types of weld defects. The images of metal plates, ...