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Stretchable Hydrogel Electronics and Devices.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) (2015-12-08)
Shaoting Lin, Hyunwoo Yuk, Teng Zhang, German Alberto Parada, Hyunwoo Koo, Cunjiang Yu, Xuanhe Zhao
ABSTRACT

Stretchable hydrogel electronics and devices are designed by integrating stretchable conductors, functional chips, drug-delivery channels, and reservoirs into stretchable, robust, and biocompatible hydrogel matrices. Novel applications include a smart wound dressing capable of sensing the temperatures of various locations on the skin, delivering different drugs to these locations, and subsequently maintaining sustained release of drugs.

MATERIALS
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Product Description

Sigma-Aldrich
N,N′-Methylenebis(acrylamide), 99%
Sigma-Aldrich
Alginic acid sodium salt from brown algae, Medium viscosity
Sigma-Aldrich
Acrylamide, suitable for electrophoresis, ≥99%