Recipe for Conductive Plastics Paves Way for Human Bodies to Go Online
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Researchers have developed a recipe for conductive plastics that could enable human bodies to interface with technology, sparking both interest and caution in the HN community.
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Is there any reason that conductive Graphene and Carbon allotropes like Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) can't solve for in-vivo applications?
Why plastic?
There are also plastic waveguides now; "Shattering the 'copper or optics' paradigm: humble plastic waveguides outperform" (2024) https://www.techradar.com/pro/shattering-the-copper-or-optic...