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Elastic and conductive hydrogel electrodes

Stretchable conductive hydrogels make microelectrode arrays that better interface with tissue.

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Fig. 1: Elastic microelectrode arrays.

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Green, R. Elastic and conductive hydrogel electrodes. Nat Biomed Eng 3, 9–10 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-018-0342-7

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