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James Bourely1, Nicolas Fumeaux2, Xavier Aeby3

  • 1Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Soft Transducers Laboratory (LMTS), Rue de la Maladière 71b, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. james.bourely@epfl.ch.

Nature communications
|November 25, 2025
PubMed
概括

这项研究引入了一种完全可生态吸收的无线温度标签,用于冷链监控. 这种新的标签使用生物基材料永久记录温度外游,为传统设备提供可持续的替代方案.

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