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How I make stretchy electronics for medicine

Mahmoud Tavakoli works on wearable electronic devices that are less invasive than standard equipment.
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  1. Patricia Maia Noronha

    1. Patricia Maia Noronha is a freelance writer in Lisbon, Portugal.

Mahmoud Tavakoli, Associate Professor at Electrical Engineering Department of University of Coimbra in Portugal, in his Soft and Printed Electronics Laboratory stretching an ultrathin electronic film.

Mahmoud Tavakoli is director of the Soft and Printed Microelectronics Laboratory in Coimbra, Portugal. Credit: Ana Paganini for Nature

Here at the Soft and Printed Microelectronics (SPM) laboratory, in Coimbra, Portugal, we’re working on a new generation of electronics as flexible as human skin. These devices are made of ultrathin polymers and a stretchable, gallium-based electroconductive ink.

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Nature 625, 850 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00174-w

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