A Bio-Inspired Swellable Microneedle Adhesive for Mechanical Interlocking with Tissue [PDF]
, 2014 Achieving significant adhesion to soft tissues while minimizing tissue damage poses a considerable clinical challenge. Chemical-based adhesives require tissue-specific reactive chemistry, typically inducing a significant inflammatory response.
Bouma, Brett E. +8 more
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Soft multimaterial optical fibers integrate multiple functionalities—such as waveguiding, side emission, sensing, drug delivery or actuation—into a single filament for wearable, implantable, and tissue‐integrated devices for diagnostics and phototherapy.
Zahra Kafrashian +2 more
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Dissolving microneedles for DNA vaccination: Improving functionality via polymer characterisation and RALA complexation [PDF]
, 2016 DNA vaccination holds the potential to treat or prevent nearly any immunogenic disease, including cancer. To date, these vaccines have demonstrated limited immunogenicity in vivo due to the absence of a suitable delivery system which can protect DNA from
Ali, Ahlam A. +7 more
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Dissolving Candlelit Microneedle for Chronic Inflammatory Skin Diseases
, 2021 Jungyoon Ohn +7 more
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review traces the evolution of wireless power transfer (WPT) for implantable medical devices, spanning electromagnetic, magnetoelectric, acoustic, and magneto‐dynamic systems. Quantitative comparisons of power, distance, and device scale highlight trade‐offs across modalities, while emerging hybrid mechanisms reveal strategies to overcome ...
Junyeop Kim, Yoonseok Park
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Advanced modification of drug nanocrystals by using novel fabrication and downstream approaches for tailor-made drug delivery [PDF]
, 2019 Drug nanosuspensions/nanocrystals have been recognized as one useful and successful approach for drug delivery. Drug nanocrystals could be further decorated to possess extended functions (such as controlled release) and designed for special in vivo ...
Haipeng, Yin +3 more
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Nanoemulsion-based dissolving microneedle arrays for enhanced intradermal and transdermal delivery [PDF]
, 2021 Muhammad Iqbal Nasiri +5 more
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Flexible Sensor‐Based Human–Machine Interfaces with AI Integration for Medical Robotics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review explores how flexible sensing technology and artificial intelligence (AI) significantly enhance human–machine interfaces in medical robotics. It highlights key sensing mechanisms, AI‐driven advancements, and applications in prosthetics, exoskeletons, and surgical robotics.
Yuxiao Wang +5 more
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Attractive and repulsive polymer-mediated forces between scale-free surfaces
, 2017 We consider forces acting on objects immersed in, or attached to, long fluctuating polymers. The confinement of the polymer by the obstacles results in polymer-mediated forces that can be repulsive (due to loss of entropy) or attractive (if some or all ...
Kantor, Yacov, Kardar, Mehran
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Dissolving microneedles: Applications and growing therapeutic potential.
Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 Ziad Sartawi +2 more
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