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Functional Materials for Environmental Energy Harvesting in Smart Agriculture via Triboelectric Nanogenerators

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores functional and responsive materials for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) in sustainable smart agriculture. It examines how particulate contamination and dirt affect charge transfer and efficiency. Environmental challenges and strategies to enhance durability and responsiveness are outlined, including active functional layers ...
Rafael R. A. Silva   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wafer‐Scale Integration of α‐quartz Thin Films toward Super High Frequency Piezoelectric bioNEMS for Chikungunya Virus Detection

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Epitaxial piezoelectric α‐quartz/Si BioNEMS sensors, made using soft chemistry, effectively detect the Chikungunya virus. They have a mass sensitivity of 205 pg Hz−1 in liquid and can detect the virus at a limit of 9 ng mL−1. This development enables high‐frequency mass devices for point‐of‐care testing in healthcare and other electronic applications ...
Raissa Rathar   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nanomaterial‐Enhanced Biosensing: Mechanisms and Emerging Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Nanomaterial integration transforms biosensor capabilities through enhanced signal transduction, sensitivity, and selectivity. This review analyzes how nanoscale materials—from nanoparticles to nanosheets—leverage unique physicochemical properties to revolutionize electrochemical, optical, and electrical biosensing.
Younghak Cho   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Twist in the Diagnosis: Chronic Arthropathy Without Inflammation

open access: yes
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
María Á. Puche‐Larrubia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Novel Bioconjugate Materials: Synthesis, Characterization and Medical Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review discusses the bioconjugation of novel materials grouped under “biological”, “hybrid” and “synthetic” categories. Medical applications ranging from cancer therapy and diagnostics to optogenetics and tissue engineering are explored, and conjugation trends are highlighted as a general guide. The review concludes with a comparison of techniques
Ellie Martin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Membrane Fusion‐Inspired Nanomaterials: Emerging Strategies for Infectious Disease and Cancer Diagnostics

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Membrane fusion‐inspired nanomaterials offer transformative potential in diagnostics by mimicking natural fusion processes to achieve highly sensitive and specific detection of disease biomarkers. This review highlights recent advancements in nanomaterial functionalization strategies, signal amplification systems, and stimuli‐responsive fusion designs,
Sojeong Lee   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

At the Pointy End of Mechanobiology: AFM for Transient Biomechanical Analysis

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Stem cell mechanosensitivity governs lineage commitment through mechanotransduction, but capturing these transient changes in living cells remains challenging. Advanced atomic force microscopy enables high‐resolution analysis of mechanical properties, real‐time protein distribution, and gene expression, offering fresh insights into cell‐environment ...
Kaiwen Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immunoprofiling of Chlamydia trachomatis using whole-proteome microarrays generated by on-chip in situ expression

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2018
Using Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) as a complex model organism, we describe a method to generate bacterial whole-proteome microarrays using cell-free, on-chip protein expression.
Katrin Hufnagel   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Guides for Developing Hundreds of Novel Chiral MXenes and MBenes Nanosheets/Quantum Dots for Next‐Generation Chiral Engineered Biomaterials Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
The emerging field of MXene/MBene materials has progressed rapidly, advancing diverse research fields, including biomedical engineering, biomedicine, agriculture, and the environment. This nanobiotechnology can tackle longstanding challenges in these areas.
Alireza Rafieerad, Ahmad Amiri
wiley   +1 more source

Anaplasma phagocytophilum MSP4 and HSP70 Proteins Are Involved in Interactions with Host Cells during Pathogen Infection

open access: yesFrontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2017
Anaplasma phagocytophilum transmembrane and surface proteins play a role during infection and multiplication in host neutrophils and tick vector cells. Recently, A.
Marinela Contreras   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

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