last highlighted date: 2024-11-11
Highlights
- With further development, the new soft materials could be used in low-power, energy-efficient microscopic memory chips, sensors, and energy storage units. Researchers also could integrate them into woven fibers to create smart fabrics or sticker-like medical implants. In today’s wearable devices, electronics are clunkily strapped to the body with a wristband. But, with the new materials, the wristband itself could have electronic activity.