In recent years researchers have succeeded in making ultrathin health-monitoring “patches” comprising electronics devices that can be directly applied to skin. However, such wearable electronics are often rigid and do not allow skin to breathe. A team of scientists in Japan has now overcome this problem with its new gas-permeable and stretchable on-skin sensor made using hollow, nanoscale metal filaments in an open-mesh architecture. ….
http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/69495
