Tumor-on-a-chip: from bioinspired design to biomedical application

X Liu, J Fang, S Huang, X Wu, X Xie, J Wang… - Microsystems & …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is one of the leading causes of human death, despite enormous efforts to explore
cancer biology and develop anticancer therapies. The main challenges in cancer research …

Beyond polydimethylsiloxane: alternative materials for fabrication of organ-on-a-chip devices and microphysiological systems

SB Campbell, Q Wu, J Yazbeck, C Liu… - ACS biomaterials …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is the predominant material used for organ-on-a-chip devices
and microphysiological systems (MPSs) due to its ease-of-use, elasticity, optical …

Emerging droplet microfluidics

L Shang, Y Cheng, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Droplet microfluidics generates and manipulates discrete droplets through immiscible
multiphase flows inside microchannels. Due to its remarkable advantages, droplet …

Bioinspired living structural color hydrogels

F Fu, L Shang, Z Chen, Y Yu, Y Zhao - Science Robotics, 2018 - science.org
Structural color materials from existing natural organisms have been widely studied to
enable artificial manufacture. Variable iridescence has attracted particular interest because …

[HTML][HTML] Organ-on-a-chip: a survey of technical results and problems

AE Danku, EH Dulf, C Braicu, A Jurj… - … in bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Organ-on-a-chip (OoC), also known as micro physiological systems or 'tissue chips' have
attracted substantial interest in recent years due to their numerous applications, especially in …

Tissue–electronics interfaces: from implantable devices to engineered tissues

R Feiner, T Dvir - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Biomedical electronic devices are interfaced with the human body to extract precise medical
data and to interfere with tissue function by providing electrical stimuli. In this Review, we …

Electrospinning: An enabling nanotechnology platform for drug delivery and regenerative medicine

S Chen, R Li, X Li, J Xie - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Electrospinning provides an enabling nanotechnology platform for generating a rich variety
of novel structured materials in many biomedical applications including drug delivery …

Organ-on-a-chip devices advance to market

B Zhang, M Radisic - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
To curb the high cost of drug development, there is an urgent need to develop more
predictive tissue models using human cells to determine drug efficacy and safety in advance …

Microfluidic organ-on-a-chip models of human liver tissue

E Moradi, S Jalili-Firoozinezhad, M Solati-Hashjin - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
The liver is the largest internal organ of the body with complex microarchitecture and
function that plays critical roles in drug metabolism. Hepatotoxicity and drug-induced liver …

Bio-inspired intelligent structural color materials

L Shang, W Zhang, K Xu, Y Zhao - Materials Horizons, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioinspired structural color materials represent a curiosity-led, technology-driven field with
multidisciplinary research studies aiming at mimicking and recapitulating natural coloration …