image: The stretchable waveguide is inserted into a needle and used as a thread for stitching. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 29, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Lu at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues was titled, "Flexible and stretchable nanowire-coated fibers for optoelectronic probing of spinal cord circuits." view more
Credit: [Credit: Chi (Alice) Lu and Seongjun Park, MIT]