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Microcracked conductors for wearable sensors

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A stretchable and conductive micrometre-thick elastic conductor, which has a controlled morphology of microcracks, can be used in on-skin and implantable sensor applications.

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Fig. 1: Microcracked PDMS–gold elastic conductors for on-skin and implantable sensors.

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  1. Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Jihong Min, Yu Song & Wei Gao

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Min, J., Song, Y. & Gao, W. Microcracked conductors for wearable sensors. Nat Electron 5, 717–718 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-022-00873-0

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