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Volume 17 Issue 3, March 2018

Buckling electronics

Reconfigurable electronic devices that can be shaped in two or more stable geometries modifying their functionalities have been realized by engineering the sequence in which the elastomeric substrates are mechanically buckled.

See Fu et al.

Image: Yihui Zhang, Tsinghua University. Cover Design: David Shand.

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