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Epidermal electronics

Skin health monitoring

Nature Materials volume 14, pages659–660(2015)Cite this article

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Ultrathin and conformal piezoelectric transducers enable high-resolution mapping of the mechanical properties of human skin.

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Figure 1: Ultrathin and conformal piezoelectric transducing bandage.

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  1. Stéphanie P. Lacour is at the Center for Neuroprosthetics and School of Engineering, Institute of Microengineering and Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL, BM 5131 – station 17, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

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Lacour, S. Skin health monitoring. Nature Mater 14, 659–660 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4328

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