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Chem., 2010) [20]; (C) a DSSC-powered LED sensor with storage (reproduced with permission from Small Nano Micro, 2015) [54]; (D) a solar-powered RFID tag affixed to the surface of a box for parcel tracking (reproduced with permission from IEEE, 2011) [27]; and (E) sub-dermal near flexible solar cell infra-red harvester and storage device for
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