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Vanishing electronics

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Engineers are reinventing electronics by building safe devices that dissolve in the body or within the environment. The technology could redefine everything from medicine to computing.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 56, Issue 5
      May 2013
      90 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/2447976
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