New tissue-hugging implants using flexible electronics

Sure, LED tattoos might look cool, but now scientists have found an even better use for flexible silicon technology. In what represents the first use of such technology for a medical application a team of cardiologists, materials scientists, and bioengineers has created and tested a new type of implantable device for measuring the heart’s electrical output that the team says is a vast improvement over current devices and could also mark the beginning of a new wave of surgical electronics… Tags: Electronics , Flexible , Heart , Implant , Medical , Sensors , Silicon Related Articles: Implantable Silicon-Silk electronics could mean LED tattoos Portable magnetometer to get to the heart of the matter CardioBip pocket-sized ECG monitor Ventracor – the heart-assist machine of the future Nanogenerator harvests energy from environmental sources Self-healing electronics using carbon nanotube-filled microcapsules

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New tissue-hugging implants using flexible electronics