Silicone, which is used for cosmetic implants and medical devices , already is biocompatible. “The new electricity-harvesting devices could be implanted in the body to perpetually power medical devices , and the body wouldn’t reject them,” … Many existing and envisioned classes of implantable biomedical devices require high performance electronics/sensors. An approach that avoids some of the longer term challenges in biocompatibility involves a construction in which some …

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