Edible electronics: The vision and the challenge

AS Sharova, F Melloni, G Lanzani… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many forward‐looking biomedical, pharmaceutical, and food industry technologies have
limited applications owing to the lack of crucial factors: balance of safety and reliability, cost …

[HTML][HTML] A review: electrode and packaging materials for neurophysiology recording implants

W Yang, Y Gong, W Li - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
To date, a wide variety of neural tissue implants have been developed for neurophysiology
recording from living tissues. An ideal neural implant should minimize the damage to the …

[HTML][HTML] Progress and challenges of implantable neural interfaces based on nature-derived materials

E Redolfi Riva, S Micera - Bioelectronic Medicine, 2021 - Springer
Neural interfaces are bioelectronic devices capable of stimulating a population of neurons or
nerve fascicles and recording electrical signals in a specific area. Despite their success in …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in soft materials for sustainable electronics

MJ Han, DK Yoon - Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
In the current shift from conventional fossil-fuel-based materials to renewable energy,
ecofriendly materials have attracted extensive research interest due to their sustainability …

Merging biology and photovoltaics: How nature helps Sun‐Catching

LM Cavinato, E Fresta, S Ferrara… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Accomplishing sustainability in optoelectronics, in general, and photovoltaics (PV), in
particular, represents a crucial milestone in green photonics. Third generation PV …

Micropatterned silk-fibroin/eumelanin composite films for bioelectronic applications

YH Youn, S Pradhan, LP Da Silva… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
There has been growing interest in the use of natural bionanomaterials and nanostructured
systems for diverse biomedical applications. Such materials can confer unique functional …

[HTML][HTML] Protein and polysaccharide-based electroactive and conductive materials for biomedical applications

X Hu, S Ricci, S Naranjo, Z Hill, P Gawason - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Electrically responsive biomaterials are an important and emerging technology in the fields
of biomedical and material sciences. A great deal of research explores the integral role of …

Interfacial water morphology in hydrated melanin

JA Martinez-Gonzalez, H Cavaye, JD McGettrick… - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The importance of electrically functional biomaterials is increasing as researchers explore
ways to utilise them in novel sensing capacities. It has been recognised that for many of …

[HTML][HTML] M13 bacteriophage-templated gold nanowires as stretchable electrodes in perovskite solar cells

J Han, JS Nam, K Kim, EJ Choi, JM Lee… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The synthesis and stretchable device application of bacteriophage-templated gold
nanowires are demonstrated. Stretchable gold nanowires are synthesised by growing gold …

Understanding the way eumelanin works: A unique example of properties and skills driven by molecular heterogeneity

ML Terranova, E Tamburri - Polymer, 2021 - Elsevier
Here we revisit recent scientific discoveries and technological advancements related to the
eumelanin (EU) biopolymer. Starting from EU extracted from living species, the settling of …