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How to make wearable devices people could forget they’re wearing

A metal–polymer composite conducts electricity and conforms to the skin, making it suitable for medical devices applied directly to the body.
Yellow light-emitting diode arrays spelling out the letters SMBE.

Lights connected using a new polymer–metal composite illuminate the logo of the research group of one of the authors. Credit: Yadong Xu

A material that conducts electricity while moulding to the human body promises wearable medical devices free of hard plastic and pesky wires1.

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Nature 613, 416 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00033-0

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  1. Xu, Y. et al. Sci. Adv. 9, eadf0575 (2023).

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