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Flexible Silk-Based Graphene Bioelectronics For Wearable Multimodal Physiological Monitoring

We introduce a skin-inspired epidermal bioelectronic patch (EBP) with unprecedented integration of graphene on silk with a facile and cost-effective fabrication process, excluding complex ink formulation. We advance the state-of-the-art by directly screen- ...

IEEE2023

Nanopore Generation in Biodegradable Silk/Magnetic Nanoparticle Membranes by an External Magnetic Field for Implantable Drug Delivery

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

Implantable devices for localized and controlled drug release are important, e.g., for therapies of cancer and chronic pain. However, most of the existing active implants are limited by the usage of nonbiodegradable materials; thus, surgery is needed to ex ...

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Silk granular hydrogels self-reinforced with regenerated silk fibroin fibers

Dominique Pioletti, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Peyman Karami, Céline Samira Wyss, Adrien Julien Demongeot

Granular hydrogels with high stability, strength, and toughness are laborious to develop. Post-curing is often employed to bind microgels chemically and enhance mechanical properties. Here a unique strategy was investigated to maintain microgels together w ...

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Recent progress in silk fibroin-based flexible electronics

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang, Peng Huang

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the emergence of 5G, traditional silicon-based electronics no longer fully meet market demands such as nonplanar application scenarios due to mechanical mismatch. This provides unprecedented op ...

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Reversible Drug Delivery: Thermal and pH Sensitive Composite Membrane for On‐Demand Drug Delivery by Applying an Alternating Magnetic Field (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 17/2020)

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

In article number 2000733 by Juergen Brugger and co‐workers, a novel composite membrane of silk fibroin, microgels and magnetic nanoparticles whose permeability can be adjusted by temperature for controlled drug release is studied. The temperature induced ...

2020

Thermal and pH Sensitive Composite Membrane for On-Demand Drug Delivery by Applying an Alternating Magnetic Field

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

Implantable drug delivery systems that can realize a scheduled drug release according to the needs of patients would be highly beneficial for the treatment of chronic diseases and cancer. Here, micrometer‐sized hydrogel particles with both thermal and pH s ...

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Printed silk-fibroin-based triboelectric nanogenerators for multi-functional wearable sensing

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Xin Liu

The rapid development of wearable sensing technology exhibits unprecedented opportunities for artificial intelligence by establishing an interactive interface between the physical and the virtual worlds. Energy preservation and multi-functional integration ...

Elsevier2019

Wearable Triboelectric Generator based on a Hybrid Mix of Carbon Nanotube and Polymer Layers

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A novel single-layer structured triboelectric generator (TEG) is proposed with a hybrid mix of carbon nanotube (CNT) and silk. Here, the mixing of two materials in liquid phase for proven effective power generation is shown. In this research, CNT provides ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Exploring the use of native spider silk as an optical fibre for chemical sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Kenny Hey Tow, Isabelle Dicaire, Desmond Chow Ming Chia

A spider uses up to seven different types of silk, all having specific functions, as building material, weapon and sensory organ to detect the presence of preys on its web. Recently, scientists have put under the limelight the extraordinary properties of t ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

From Spider Webs to a Biomimetic Optical Fibre Sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Kenny Hey Tow, Isabelle Dicaire, Desmond Chow Ming Chia

Can we use spider silk threads as natural, biological optical fibre sensors? In this communication, we will see how we can harness the optical properties of spider dragline silk and use it for sensing. ...

2018