Flexible and stretchable antenna (IMAGE)

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Flexible and stretchable antenna

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Researchers have developed a new method for making hydrogel-based flexible and stretchable antennas. The antennas could be used to create a wireless body-area network (a). The antennas are made by injecting liquid metal into a femtosecond-laser-ablated embedded hydrogel microchannel (b).

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Tao Chen, Xi’an Jiaotong University in China

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