Piezoelectric biomaterials for sensors and actuators

MT Chorsi, EJ Curry, HT Chorsi, R Das… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in materials, manufacturing, biotechnology, and microelectromechanical
systems (MEMS) have fostered many exciting biosensors and bioactuators that are based …

Piezotronic and piezo‐phototronic effects on sonodynamic disease therapy

Y Zhao, T Huang, X Zhang, Y Cui, L Zhang, L Li… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the development of engineered nanomaterials and nanomedicines, utilization of
nanomaterials to generate excessive reactive oxygen species under exogenous ultrasound …

Lithium niobate meta-optics

A Fedotova, L Carletti, A Zilli, F Setzpfandt… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The rapid development of optical metasurfaces, 2D ensembles of engineered
nanostructures, is presently underpinning a steady drive toward the miniaturization of many …

Revisiting the classification of NIR-absorbing/emitting nanomaterials for in vivo bioapplications

TM Liu, J Conde, T Lipiński, A Bednarkiewicz… - NPG Asia …, 2016 - nature.com
With the development of nonlinear optics and new imaging methods, near-infrared (NIR)
light can excite contrast agents to probe biological specimens both functionally and …

The evolution of mechanical actuation: from conventional actuators to artificial muscles

C Greco, P Kotak, L Pagnotta… - International Materials …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Mechanical actuators are defined as mechanical devices that convert an input energy into
motion. Since the 1990s, advancements in the fields of robotics and automation have …

Review on innovative piezoelectric materials for mechanical energy harvesting

G Clementi, F Cottone, A Di Michele, L Gammaitoni… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The huge number of electronic devices called the Internet of Things requires miniaturized,
autonomous and ecologically sustainable power sources. A viable way to power these …

Lithium niobate nanocubes as linear and nonlinear ultraviolet Mie resonators

F Timpu, J Sendra, C Renaut, L Lang… - Acs …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Many dielectric and semiconductor materials used for all-dielectric resonators or
metasurfaces have low absorption in the near-infrared to visible range, but they are lossy in …

Synthesis of lithium niobate nanocrystals with size focusing through an Ostwald ripening process

RF Ali, BD Gates - Chemistry of Materials, 2018 - ACS Publications
A simple surfactant assisted solution-phase approach is demonstrated here for the
preparation of lithium niobate (LiNbO3) nanoparticles with an average size of 30 nm. This …

[HTML][HTML] Organic biodegradable piezoelectric materials and their potential applications as bioelectronics

F Dai, Q Geng, T Hua, X Sheng, L Yin - Soft Science, 2023 - oaepublish.com
Biodegradable piezoelectrics represent an intriguing category of electroactive materials
combining the mechanical-electrical coupling characteristics with a unique biodegradable …

Multi-harmonic imaging in the second near-infrared window of nanoparticle-labeled stem cells as a monitoring tool in tissue depth

L Dubreil, I Leroux, M Ledevin, C Schleder… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In order to assess the therapeutic potential of cell-based strategies, it is of paramount
importance to elaborate and validate tools for monitoring the behavior of injected cells in …