Fresh fruit micro-rupture generally occurs during mechanical handling, which severely affects the product’s postharvest quality along supply chain. An extended finite element (XFEM) model was developed for investigating fracture response of tomato under compression. A 1/4 modeled using three parts: exocarp, mesocarp and septa frame, pre-crack. amplitude curve-based uniformly distributed pressur...

Printable electronics is an innovative area of technology with great commercial potential. Here, a screen-printed functional ink, comprising a combination of semiconducting acicular particles, electrically insulating nanoparticles and a base polymer ink, is described that exhibits pronounced pressure sensitive electrical properties for applications in sensing and touch sensitive surfaces. The c...