Recent advances in biodegradable conducting polymers and their biomedical applications

Kenry, B Liu - Biomacromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
The growing importance of biodegradable conducting polymers (CPs) have fueled the rapid
development of this unique class of polymeric materials in recent years. Possessing both the …

Wearable glucose monitoring and implantable drug delivery systems for diabetes management

J Zhang, J Xu, J Lim, JK Nolan, H Lee… - Advanced Healthcare …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The global cost of diabetes care exceeds 1trillioneachyearwithmorethan 327 billion being
spent in the United States alone. Despite some of the advances in diabetes care including …

Solid–liquid state transformable magnetorheological millirobot

Z Chen, W Lu, Y Li, P Liu, Y Yang… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Magnetically actuated soft millirobots (magneto-robot) capable of accomplishing on-demand
tasks in a remote-control manner using noninvasive magnetic fields are of great interest in …

3D‐printed gastric resident electronics

YL Kong, X Zou, CA McCandler… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐term implantation of biomedical electronics into the human body enables advanced
diagnostic and therapeutic functionalities. However, most long‐term resident electronics …

Recent advances in mechanical force-responsive drug delivery systems

P Ma, X Lai, Z Luo, Y Chen, XJ Loh, E Ye, Z Li… - Nanoscale …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Mechanical force responsive drug delivery systems (in terms of mechanical force induced
chemical bond breakage or physical structure destabilization) have been recently explored …

Advances in wireless, batteryless, implantable electronics for real-time, continuous physiological monitoring

H Kim, B Rigo, G Wong, YJ Lee, WH Yeo - Nano-Micro Letters, 2024 - Springer
This review summarizes recent progress in developing wireless, batteryless, fully
implantable biomedical devices for real-time continuous physiological signal monitoring …

Ultrasound‐Responsive Aqueous Two‐Phase Microcapsules for On‐Demand Drug Release

RD Field, MA Jakus, X Chen, K Human… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional implanted drug delivery systems cannot easily change their release profile in real
time to respond to physiological changes. Here we present a microfluidic aqueous two …

Near-infrared light triggered and separable microneedles for transdermal delivery of metformin in diabetic rats

W Yu, G Jiang, Y Zhang, D Liu, B Xu… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Near-infrared light triggered and separable microneedles (MNs) were fabricated by a unique
molding method. The photothermal conversion agent (Prussian blue nanoparticles, PB NPs) …

An actuatable soft reservoir modulates host foreign body response

EB Dolan, CE Varela, K Mendez, W Whyte… - Science Robotics, 2019 - science.org
The performance of indwelling medical devices that depend on an interface with soft tissue
is plagued by complex, unpredictable foreign body responses. Such devices—including …

Forward wound closure with regenerated silk fibroin and polylysine-modified chitosan composite bioadhesives as dressings

R Wang, J Zhu, G Jiang, Y Sun, L Ruan… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Wound dressing has been used for decades to be effective for accelerating skin wound
healing. However, practical applications are still limited due to their lower cell affinity, tissue …