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Stretchable electronics
"Flexible, plastic electronics have been in the pipeline for quite some time, but University of Cambridge postdoctoral researcher Stéphanie Lacour is developing elastic electronics that can be stretched without damage. She and her colleagues applied gold to a rubber substrate and used those strips as interconnects between tiny islands of conventional semiconductors. The circuits, containing several transistors, did not fail after being pulled repeatedly. The technology would be a boon to bioengineers. From Technology Review:
