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Electronics devices that can be crumpled and stored in capsules

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An approach to soft electronics that is inspired by the emergence process of butterflies can be used to create devices that can recover from crumpling.

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Fig. 1: Crumple-recoverable electronics based on a nature-inspired heterogeneously integrated structure.

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    Yaokang Zhang & Xuechang Zhou

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Zhang, Y., Zhou, X. Electronics devices that can be crumpled and stored in capsules. Nat Electron 7, 6–7 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-023-01108-6

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