Stretchable Electronics - On or In You for Health

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Health care in the US and worldwide is under increasing pressures: financial, population and disease-burden. Paradigms are shifting, with care morphing from a traditional, large population, one-size-fits-all approach to a focus on personalized, precision individual care; and from “sick care” to a hope for “well care” and prevention. Central in all of this is the need for early, accurate, and personalized diagnostics and therapeutics. To move beyond large lab-based systems to mobile, home and “on person” systems, new materials are needed. Learn about novel advances in materials development – specifically the emergence of stretchable, transient and piezo electronic materials, new polymer- and paper-based systems such as smart skins, wearables/implantables, body-powered devices, and edible el