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Injection and unfolding

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The delivery of flexible electronic scaffolds to precise locations in biological tissues or cavities is achieved by injecting them via a syringe needle with a diameter much smaller than the size of the scaffold.

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Figure 1: Schematic illustration and representative biomonitoring results of syringe-injectable electronics.

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  1. Dae-Hyeong Kim and Youngsik Lee are at the Center for Nanoparticle Research of Institute for Basic Science (IBS), School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea,

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Kim, DH., Lee, Y. Injection and unfolding. Nature Nanotech 10, 570–571 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.129

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