Lab-on-skin: a review of flexible and stretchable electronics for wearable health monitoring

Y Liu, M Pharr, GA Salvatore - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
Skin is the largest organ of the human body, and it offers a diagnostic interface rich with vital
biological signals from the inner organs, blood vessels, muscles, and dermis/epidermis. Soft …

Optical coherence elastography–OCT at work in tissue biomechanics

KV Larin, DD Sampson - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Optical coherence elastography (OCE), as the use of OCT to perform elastography has
come to be known, began in 1998, around ten years after the rest of the field of elastography …

A fully integrated wearable ultrasound system to monitor deep tissues in moving subjects

M Lin, Z Zhang, X Gao, Y Bian, RS Wu, G Park… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent advances in wearable ultrasound technologies have demonstrated the potential for
hands-free data acquisition, but technical barriers remain as these probes require wire …

A dual‐cross‐linked hydrogel patch for promoting diabetic wound healing

J Liu, M Qu, C Wang, Y Xue, H Huang, Q Chen, W Sun… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Diabetic wound treatment faces significant challenges in clinical settings. Alternative
treatment approaches are needed. Continuous bleeding, disordered inflammatory …

Conductive and elastic bottlebrush elastomers for ultrasoft electronics

P Xu, S Wang, A Lin, HK Min, Z Zhou, W Dou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding biological systems and mimicking their functions require electronic tools that
can interact with biological tissues with matched softness. These tools involve biointerfacing …

Engineering a sprayable and elastic hydrogel adhesive with antimicrobial properties for wound healing

N Annabi, D Rana, ES Sani, R Portillo-Lara, JL Gifford… - Biomaterials, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydrogel-based bioadhesives have emerged as alternatives for sutureless wound closure,
since they can mimic the composition and physicochemical properties of the extracellular …

Local immunomodulation using an adhesive hydrogel loaded with miRNA‐laden nanoparticles promotes wound healing

B Saleh, HK Dhaliwal, R Portillo‐Lara, E Shirzaei Sani… - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic wounds are characterized by impaired healing and uncontrolled inflammation,
which compromise the protective role of the immune system and may lead to bacterial …

Miniaturized electromechanical devices for the characterization of the biomechanics of deep tissue

E Song, Z Xie, W Bai, H Luan, B Ji, X Ning… - Nature biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
Evaluating the biomechanics of soft tissues at depths well below their surface, and at high
precision and in real time, would open up diagnostic opportunities. Here, we report the …

Conformal piezoelectric systems for clinical and experimental characterization of soft tissue biomechanics

C Dagdeviren, Y Shi, P Joe, R Ghaffari, G Balooch… - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
Mechanical assessment of soft biological tissues and organs has broad relevance in clinical
diagnosis and treatment of disease. Existing characterization methods are invasive, lack …

[PDF][PDF] Stretchable, High‐k Dielectric Elastomers through Liquid‐Metal Inclusions

MD Bartlett, A Fassler, N Kazem, EJ Markvicka… - Advanced …, 2016 - smr.unl.edu
Here, we incorporate liquid-metal (LM) microdroplets into hyperelastic materials to create all
soft matter systems with exceptional electro–elasto properties (Figure 1a–c). The integration …