Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone underwater: This and more could soon be ...

Lighter, more flexible ... The entire membrane is optically transparent and perforated, making the artificial skin permeable to air and moisture, allowing the real skin underneath to breathe.

This artificial skin is not only light, transparent and permeable, but also mimics the interactions of real skin and the brain, as the team reports in the journal Nature Communications ("Scalable ...