Japan, Jan. 26 -- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has confirmed the world's first self-recovery property of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG), a van der Waals (vdW)-layered material, in joint research with the Solid Mechanics Laboratory (Hirakata Laboratory) of Kyoto University's Graduate School of Engineering. This achievement is expected to extend the operational lifetime of micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) by utilizing vdW-layered materials, thereby contributing to the reliability of devices equipped with MEMS.The demand for MEMS including accelerometers and pressure sensors is rapidly expanding, driven by the advancement of smartphone functionality, the increasing sophistication of autonomous driving and...