Soft materials for photoelectrochemical fuel production

EL Ratcliff, Z Chen, CM Davis, EH Suh… - ACS Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymer semiconductors are fascinating materials that could enable delivery of chemical
fuels from water and sunlight, offering several potential advantages over their inorganic …

Understanding photocapacitive and photofaradaic processes in organic semiconductor photoelectrodes for optobioelectronics

T Paltrinieri, L Bondi, V Đerek, B Fraboni… - Advanced functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Photoactive organic semiconductor substrates are envisioned as a novel class of
bioelectronic devices that transduce light into stimulating biological signals with relevance …

Subretinally injected semiconducting polymer nanoparticles rescue vision in a rat model of retinal dystrophy

JF Maya-Vetencourt, G Manfredi, M Mete… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Inherited retinal dystrophies and late-stage age-related macular degeneration, for which
treatments remain limited, are among the most prevalent causes of legal blindness. Retinal …

Nanotechnology for vision restoration

G Lanzani, G Chiaravalli, E Colombo… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Degenerative retinal dystrophies, such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular
degeneration, cause the progressive loss of retinal photoreceptors, which leads to …

Nanostructured organic/hybrid materials and components in miniaturized optical and chemical sensors

M Prosa, M Bolognesi, L Fornasari, G Grasso… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the last decade, biochemical sensors have brought a disruptive breakthrough in analytical
chemistry and microbiology due the advent of technologically advanced systems conceived …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging Medical Technologies and Their Use in Bionic Repair and Human Augmentation

A Manero, V Rivera, Q Fu, JD Schwartzman… - Bioengineering, 2024 - mdpi.com
As both the proportion of older people and the length of life increases globally, a rise in age-
related degenerative diseases, disability, and prolonged dependency is projected. However …

Photoelectrochemistry and Drift–Diffusion Simulations in a Polythiophene Film Interfaced with an Electrolyte

G Chiaravalli, G Manfredi, R Sacco… - ACS applied materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Although the efficiency of organic polymer-based retinal devices has been proved, the
interpretation of the working mechanisms that grant photostimulation at the polymer/neuron …

Biomedical implants with charge‐transfer monitoring and regulating abilities

D Wang, J Tan, H Zhu, Y Mei, X Liu - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Transmembrane charge (ion/electron) transfer is essential for maintaining cellular
homeostasis and is involved in many biological processes, from protein synthesis to …

Tuning photoelectrochemical performance of poly (3-hexylthiophene) electrodes via surface structuring

R Wei, M Gryszel, L Migliaccio… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic semiconductors are gaining increasing attention as promising active materials in
aqueous electrochemical and photoelectrochemical applications. Controlling the …

Neurophysiological and medical considerations for better-performing microelectronic retinal prostheses

M Im, SW Kim - Journal of Neural Engineering, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
More than 350 blind individuals have received the Argus II implant of Second Sight, USA,
which is the only US FDA-approved retinal prosthetic system, although it has been recently …