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The quest for miniaturized soft bioelectronic devices

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Soft integrated electronics packaged with miniaturized modules for wireless power and data transfer are opening up new opportunities for long-term health monitoring and therapy.

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Figure 1: Biointegrated devices for health monitoring.
Figure 2: Wireless data transfer and wireless powering in implantable devices.
Figure 3: Wearable health-monitoring systems.

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This work was supported by the grant IBS-R006-D1.

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  1. Jaemin Kim and Dae-Hyeong Kim are at the Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul, 08826

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  2. Republic of Korea and at the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Chemical Processes, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea.

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  3. Roozbeh Ghaffari is at MC10 Inc., 10 Maguire Road, Lexington, 02142, Massachusetts, USA

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Kim, J., Ghaffari, R. & Kim, DH. The quest for miniaturized soft bioelectronic devices. Nat Biomed Eng 1, 0049 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-017-0049

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