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Most implantable and wearable medical devices benefit from having on-board batteries powering them, but because conventional batteries have specific internal geometries, they are not flexible. Now researchers have developed stretchable supercapacitors – devices that can hold onto electrical charge and release it as necessary – that can be pulled to eight times their original size and continue working.
