{"id":245046,"date":"2026-10-07T21:45:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/new-wireless-system-could-power-medical-implants-as-they-stretch"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:45:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:45:56","slug":"new-wireless-system-could-power-medical-implants-as-they-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/new-wireless-system-could-power-medical-implants-as-they-stretch","title":{"rendered":"New wireless system could power medical implants as they stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-wireless-system-could-power-medical-implants-as-they-stretch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few decades, electronics engineers have developed increasingly sophisticated implantable medical devices. Reliably powering some of these devices, however, can be challenging, particularly when they are based on stretchable materials that move along with the body.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul National University and other institutions in South Korea recently developed a new wireless power system that could provide energy to soft implantable devices, even when they are stretching or moving. The new system, introduced in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41928-026-01714-0\" target=\"_blank\">a paper published in <i>Nature Electronics<\/i><\/a>, was initially used to develop a cardiac pacemaker, a medical device that uses electrical pulses to control heartbeats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work began with a practical question: How can we reliably power a wireless implant in a body that is constantly moving?\u201d Dae-Hyeong Kim, senior author of the paper, told Tech Xplore. \u201cAdvances in soft electronics have enabled implants to conform to living tissues and accommodate their natural motion, helping reduce mechanical stress and maintain stable contact. However, as these implants move and even stretch within the body, changes in their position and shape can disrupt wireless power delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few decades, electronics engineers have developed increasingly sophisticated implantable medical devices. Reliably powering some of these devices, however, can be challenging, particularly when they are based on stretchable materials that move along with the body. Researchers at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul National University and other institutions in South Korea [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}