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27 April 2018

Human hand electrified with 3D printer

Device layers silvery ink onto the skin to make a circuit.

Wireless device being 3D printed onto a human hand — Circles of silver ‘ink’ extruded by a 3D printer create a circuit on a human hand. Credit: Z. Zhu et al./Adv. Mater.

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Nature 557, 142-143 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05019-x

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