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The future of electronics is not just “smaller, faster and
cheaper” but also bent, stretched and meltaway, Rogers said in his plenary
lecture at the AAAS Annual Meeting.
Stretchy, dissolvable electronics may offer a way to fully
integrate health technology with the body and to reduce future electronic
waste, according to John Rogers, a materials scientist and engineer who spoke
at the 2014 AAAS Annual Meeting.
Rogers, who holds the Swanlund Chair at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said in his plenary lecture that the future of
electronics is not just "smaller, faster and cheaper" but also bent,
stretched and meltaway.