In a sense, the battery is a latecomer to the push toward flexible, stretchable electronics.

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While flexible and stretchable electronics have been on the rise, powering them with equally stretchy energy sources has been problematic.

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The smart T-shirt's stretchable fabric holds the sensors firmly in place - the elastic fibres are even used to measure breathing.

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Nokia researchers believe that advances in nanotechnology will give them the ingredients to make future mobile phones far thinner, more stretchable, more durable and more energy-efficient than contemporary devices.

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Think of it as a sheet of chicken-wire that is just a single atom thick, but also lightweight, strong, airtight, stretchable, transparent and an excellent conductor of both electricity and light.

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There's no word yet on whether there will be refined versions coming to real-world products, but we hope any developments arrive quickly enough to give stretchable electronics a viable power source.

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