Rational design of flexible Zn-based batteries for wearable electronic devices

X **ao, Z Zheng, X Zhong, R Gao, Z Piao, M Jiao… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The advent of 5G and the Internet of Things has spawned a demand for wearable electronic
devices. However, the lack of a suitable flexible energy storage system has become the …

Towards translational optogenetics

A Bansal, S Shikha, Y Zhang - Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - nature.com
Optogenetics is widely used to interrogate the neural circuits underlying disease and has
most recently been harnessed for therapeutic applications. The optogenetic toolkit consists …

Integrated internal ion-gated organic electrochemical transistors for stand-alone conformable bioelectronics

C Cea, Z Zhao, DJ Wisniewski, GD Spyropoulos… - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
Organic electronics can be biocompatible and conformable, enhancing the ability to
interface with tissue. However, the limitations of speed and integration have, thus far …

A wireless and battery-less implant for multimodal closed-loop neuromodulation in small animals

W Ouyang, W Lu, Y Zhang, Y Liu, JU Kim… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Fully implantable wireless systems for the recording and modulation of neural circuits that do
not require physical tethers or batteries allow for studies that demand the use of …

Flexible ultrasound-induced retinal stimulating piezo-arrays for biomimetic visual prostheses

L Jiang, G Lu, Y Zeng, Y Sun, H Kang, J Burford… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electronic visual prostheses, or biomimetic eyes, have shown the feasibility of restoring
functional vision in the blind through electrical pulses to initiate neural responses artificially …

Ultrasound-driven in vivo electrical stimulation based on biodegradable piezoelectric nanogenerators for enhancing and monitoring the nerve tissue repair

P Wu, P Chen, C Xu, Q Wang, F Zhang, K Yang… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
In vivo electrical stimulation (ES) has shown great promise in promoting tissue repair for
various tissue engineering applications. However, a significant limitation of current long-term …

Flexible electronics and devices as human–machine interfaces for medical robotics

W Heng, S Solomon, W Gao - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Medical robots are invaluable players in non‐pharmaceutical treatment of disabilities.
Particularly, using prosthetic and rehabilitation devices with human–machine interfaces can …

A soft implantable energy supply system that integrates wireless charging and biodegradable Zn-ion hybrid supercapacitors

H Sheng, L Jiang, Q Wang, Z Zhang, Y Lv, H Ma… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The advent of implantable bioelectronic devices offers prospective solutions toward health
monitoring and disease diagnosis and treatments. However, advances in power modules …

A battery-free wireless body area network towards state perception under all-weather conditions

X Liu, Y Zhang, X Wang, J Zhang, K Dong, F Wang… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The integration of energy harvesting and sensing is core to the enhancement of intelligence
and sustainability of wireless body area networks (WBANs). Much of the harvested energy …

Increasingly intelligent micromachines

TY Huang, H Gu, BJ Nelson - Annual Review of Control …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Intelligent micromachines, with dimensions ranging from a few millimeters down to hundreds
of nanometers, are miniature systems capable of performing specific tasks autonomously at …