Sensory artificial cilia for in situ monitoring of airway physiological properties

Y Wang, C Negron, A Khoshnaw, S Edwards… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Continuously monitoring human airway conditions is crucial for timely interventions,
especially when airway stents are implanted to alleviate central airway obstruction in lung …

Wirelessly Actuated Ciliary Airway Stent for Excessive Mucus Transportation

Y Wang, S Sharma, F Maldonado… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Small‐scale cilia‐like devices that can manipulate fluids in narrow spaces have great
potential in microfluidics, biomechanics, biomedical engineering, and other applications …

A nanosensor toolbox for rapid, label-free measurement of airway surface liquid and epithelial cell function

R Ivanova, DCH Benton, MM Munye… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Ciliated lung epithelial cells and the airway surface liquid (ASL) comprise one of the body's
most important protective systems. This system is finely tuned, and perturbations to ASL …

Bio-inspired magnetically responsive silicone cilia: fabrication strategy and interaction with biological mucus

A Grein-Iankovski, KA de Oliveira Braga, DF Legendre… - Bioengineering, 2024 - mdpi.com
Cilia are biological structures essential to drive the mobility of secretions and maintain the
proper function of the respiratory airways. However, this motile self-cleaning process is …

Sensing Mucus Physiological Property In Situ by Wireless Millimeter‐Scale Soft Robots

B Xiao, Y Xu, S Edwards, L Balakumar… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The physiological property of mucus is an important biomarker for monitoring the human
health conditions and helping understand disease development, as mucus property such as …

A flexible catheter-based sensor array for upper airway soft tissues pressure monitoring

J Shang, X Ma, P Zou, C Huang, Z Lao, J Wang… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Obstructive sleep apnea is a globally prevalent concern with significant health impacts,
especially when coupled with comorbidities. Accurate detection and localization of airway …

Piezoelectric-based respiratory monitoring: towards self-powered implantables for the airways

LL Ruiz, V Lin, L Fitzgerald, J Zhu… - 2021 IEEE 17th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wearable and implantable technology for respiratory monitoring has created the potential for
continuous collection of respiratory parameters for healthcare and other applications …

3D‐Printed Artificial Cilia Arrays: A Versatile Tool for Customizable Mechanosensing

P Glass, A Shar, C Pemberton, E Nguyen… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bio‐inspired cilium‐based mechanosensors offer a high level of responsiveness, making
them suitable for a wide range of industrial, environmental, and biomedical applications …

[HTML][HTML] Revolutionizing Epithelial Differentiability Analysis in Small Airway-on-a-Chip Models Using Label-Free Imaging and Computational Techniques

SL Chen, RH Xie, CY Chen, JW Yang, KY Hsieh… - Biosensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Organ-on-a-chip (OOC) devices mimic human organs, which can be used for many different
applications, including drug development, environmental toxicology, disease models, and …

[HTML][HTML] 3D printed transwell-integrated nose-on-chip model to evaluate effects of air flow-induced mechanical stresses on mucous secretion

Z Brooks, K Kim, K Zhao, T Goswami, S Hussain… - Biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
While there are many chip models that simulate the air-tissue interface of the respiratory
system, only a few represent the upper respiratory system. These chips are restricted to …