Recent progress in silk fibroin-based flexible electronics

DL Wen, DH Sun, P Huang, W Huang, M Su… - Microsystems & …, 2021 - nature.com
With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the emergence of 5G,
traditional silicon-based electronics no longer fully meet market demands such as nonplanar …

Silkworm silk-based materials and devices generated using bio-nanotechnology

W Huang, S Ling, C Li, FG Omenetto… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Silks are natural fibrous protein polymers that are spun by silkworms and spiders. Among
silk variants, there has been increasing interest devoted to the silkworm silk of B. mori, due …

Microneedle-mediated vaccination: innovation and translation

T Sheng, B Luo, W Zhang, X Ge, J Yu, Y Zhang… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Vaccine administration by subcutaneous or intramuscular injection is the most commonly
prescribed route for inoculation, however, it is often associated with some deficiencies such …

Microneedles: a new generation vaccine delivery system

I Menon, P Bagwe, KB Gomes, L Bajaj, R Gala… - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Transdermal vaccination route using biodegradable microneedles is a rapidly progressing
field of research and applications. The fear of painful needles is one of the primary reasons …

Microneedles-based transdermal drug delivery systems: a review

Y Hao, W Li, XL Zhou, F Yang… - Journal of biomedical …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
A microneedle (MN) is a micron-sized needle with a height of 10–2000 μm and a width of 10–
50 μm, which can penetrate through the epidermis layer to dermal tissue directly without …

Silk-based flexible electronics and smart wearable Textiles: Progress and beyond

T Xing, A He, Z Huang, Y Luo, Y Zhang, M Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Flexible electronics and smart wearable textiles have been widely used in healthcare
monitoring, flexible sensing, thermal management, protective clothing, energy storage, and …

A microneedle technology for sampling and sensing bacteria in the food supply chain

D Kim, Y Cao, D Mariappan, MS Bono Jr… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Food quality monitoring, particularly, the detection of bacterial pathogens and spoilage
throughout the food supply chain, is critical to ensure global food safety and minimize food …

Silk materials at the convergence of science, sustainability, healthcare, and technology

G Guidetti, L d'Amone, T Kim, G Matzeu… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Over the past few decades, Bombyx mori silk fibroin has become a ubiquitous material for
applications ranging from biomedical devices to optics, electronics, and sensing, while also …

Smart microneedle fabricated with silk fibroin combined semi-interpenetrating network hydrogel for glucose-responsive insulin delivery

S Chen, H Matsumoto, Y Moro-Oka… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Microneedle (MN) technology, which can transdermally deliver insulin in a noninvasive
manner, offers a promising way to replace subcutaneous self-injection for diabetes …

The mucosal vaccine adjuvant LT (R192G/L211A) or dmLT

JD Clements, EB Norton - MSphere, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Perhaps the best-studied mucosal adjuvants are the bacterially derived ADP-ribosylating
enterotoxins. This adjuvant family includes heat-labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli (LT) …