Bioelectronic Devices for Healthcare

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I. Wearable/portable bioelectronics for personalized healthcare

Skin-interfaced Wearable Biosensors for Personalized Medicine (Nature 2016, PNAS 2017, Chemical Society Review 2019)

Laser-engraved lab on the Skin for Non-invasive Monitoring of Circulating Nutrients and Metabolites (Nature Biotechnology 2020, 38, 217-224)

Battery-free Biofuel-powered Electronic Skin for Wearable Sensing and Human-machine Interaction (Science Robotics 2020, 5, eaaz7946)

Wireless Battery-free Wearable Sweat Sensor Powered by Human Motion (via TENG)  (Science Advances 2020, 6, eaay9842)

Investigation of Stress Hormone Dynamics in Human Sweat using a Graphene-based mHealth System (Matter 2020, 2, 921-937)

SARS-CoV-2 RapidPlex for Rapid and Low-Cost COVID-19 Diagnosis and Monitoring (Matter, 2020, 3, 1981-1998)

Nature Biotechnology, 2020; Science Robotics, 2020; Matter, 2020a; Science Advances 2020; Matter 2020b; Nature, 2016; PNAS, 2017.

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II. Medical micro/nanorobotics

Fantastic Voyage

Synthetic micro/nanomachines

Micro/Nanorobots and Their Biomedical Applications: Toward the 'Fantastic Voyage'

A Microrobotic System Guided by Photoacoustic Computed Tomography for Targeted Navigation in Intestines In Vivo (Science Robotics 2019)

Electrosynthesized polymer based catalytic microengines

Functional microengines for bacteria isolation

Catalytic Janus nanomotors

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Bioinspired flexible nanoswimmers

Bioinspired plant-based microswimmers

Science Robotics, 2019; ACS Nano, 2012, 2013, 2015; Nano Lett. 2012, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
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