Smart textiles for personalized healthcare

A Libanori, G Chen, X Zhao, Y Zhou, J Chen - Nature Electronics, 2022 - nature.com
Incorporating sensing and therapeutic capabilities into everyday textiles could be a powerful
approach in the development of personalized healthcare. The creation of such smart textiles …

Engineered living biomaterials

A Rodrigo-Navarro, S Sankaran, MJ Dalby… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biomaterials have evolved from inert materials that lack interaction with the body to
biologically active, instructive materials that host and provide signals to surrounding cells …

Protein-based biological materials: Molecular design and artificial production

A Miserez, J Yu, P Mohammadi - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymeric materials produced from fossil fuels have been intimately linked to the
development of industrial activities in the 20th century and, consequently, to the …

Engineered living materials for sustainability

B An, Y Wang, Y Huang, X Wang, Y Liu, D Xun… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in synthetic biology and materials science have given rise to a new form of
materials, namely engineered living materials (ELMs), which are composed of living matter …

Periplasmic biomineralization for semi-artificial photosynthesis

Y Lin, J Shi, W Feng, J Yue, Y Luo, S Chen, B Yang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Semiconductor-based biointerfaces are typically established either on the surface of the
plasma membrane or within the cytoplasm. In Gram-negative bacteria, the periplasmic …

Engineered living hydrogels

X Liu, ME Inda, Y Lai, TK Lu, X Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Living biological systems, ranging from single cells to whole organisms, can sense, process
information, and actuate in response to changing environmental conditions. Inspired by …

Boosting checkpoint immunotherapy with biomaterials

L Liu, Y Pan, C Zhao, P Huang, X Chen, L Rao - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
The immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy has revolutionized the field of cancer
treatment, while low response rates and systemic toxicity limit its clinical outcomes. With the …

Smart textiles for self-powered biomonitoring

J Yin, S Wang, A Di Carlo, A Chang, X Wan, J Xu… - Med-X, 2023 - Springer
Merging electronics with textiles has become an emerging trend since textiles hold
magnificent wearing comfort and user-friendliness compared with conventional wearable …

Hydrogel-based biocontainment of bacteria for continuous sensing and computation

TC Tang, E Tham, X Liu, K Yehl, AJ Rovner… - Nature Chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Genetically modified microorganisms (GMMs) can enable a wide range of important
applications including environmental sensing and responsive engineered living materials …

Synthetic protein condensates for cellular and metabolic engineering

ZG Qian, SC Huang, XX **a - Nature chemical biology, 2022 - nature.com
Protein condensates are distinct structures assembled in living cells that concentrate
molecules via phase separation in a confined subcellular compartment. In the past decade …