journal article·2026-06

Advances of conductive hydrogel materials in bioelectronics for electrophysiological monitoring

Hanyu Zhong, Xinyuan Tang, Xingjun Chen, Yuxi Zhan, Shaojingya Gao, Qiang Sun

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