Wireless Tattoo Shows Promise for Medical Applications

Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and researchers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed “tattoo electronics” – wireless electronics so flexible and thin they can be applied to the skin. McCormick report, related stories on Professor Huang’s work on flexible electronics, cardiac catheter, eyeball camera, print electronics, and stretchable electronics.