The future of technology is 'smaller, lighter and quieter'
Published on 28 February, 2013
CQUniversity is hosting a leading Japanese scientist who has been showing the way to create flexible, soft and light-weight electronics devices.
His ideas could spawn future generations of focus lens in cameras as well as 'artificial muscles' for robots.
Professor Keiichi Kaneto has studied conducting polymers since the mid-1970s and is renowned in the fields of organic semiconductor electronics and electroactive polymers.
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His research areas include solar cells, field effect transistors, light emitting diodes, batteries and soft actuators (which can replace motorised controllers in robotics or medical devices).
Professor Kaneto is also interested in fabrication of devices and the characterisation of organic materials for optical and electrical systems. He has more than 150 publications to his name as well as several patents.
His free seminars have covered 'light-weight and flexible electronic devices based on organic materials' and 'conducting polymers' application to artificial muscle and rechargeable batteries'.
Professor Kaneto is currently an Emeritus Professor with the Kyushu Institute of Technology. He will be on Rockhampton Campus until March 1.
During his visit, Prof Kaneto caught up with Electrical Engineering senior lecturer Dr Preethi Preethichandra who has previously visited his laboratories in Japan.