Mushroom-like nanowires stand up for elastronics

摘要： A dense forest of mushroom-like gold nanowires grown on soft, flexible substrates could enable a new generation of wearable or implantable stretchable electronic devices, believe researchers [Wang et al., ACS Nano (2018), DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b05019 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.8b05019]. Elastronics – electronic devices that can bend and flex repeatedly without impacting on performance – are ideally suited to on-the-skin monitoring or diagnostic applications.