For wearable electronic devices, NIST shows plastic holes are golden

Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - 16:01 in Physics & Chemistry

In science, sometimes the best discoveries come when you're exploring something else entirely. That's the case with recent findings from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where a research team has come up with a way to build safe, nontoxic gold wires onto flexible, thin plastic film. Their demonstration potentially clears the path for a host of wearable electronic devices that monitor our health.

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