In biomedical practices, many electronic devices are used to perform diagnosis, treament and other functions. However, electronics are usually very hard, and cannot comply with the complex geometries and extreme deformabilities of biological tissues. This incompatibility greatly limits the application of electronics in biomedical areas (one extreme example is ). We developed electronics that are capable of intimate, non-invasive integration with the soft, curvilinear surfaces of biological tissues, which offer important opportunities for diagnosing and treating disease and for improving interfaces between electronics and biological tissues. As shown on the left are neural sensors on cat's brains (top left and right) and cardiac sensor on pig's heart, for electrophysiology measurement.
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