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Advancing personalised healthcare through wearable biosensors: An interview with Wei Gao, Falling Walls, Aug 2023. 

Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2023, Falling Walls, Aug 2023.

Continuous sweat monitoring on the go, Nature Electronics, Aug 2023. 

Perovskite Cells Meet Wearable Biosensor’s Power Demands, Photonics.com, Jul 2023. 

New Wearable Sensor Sets Record for Solar Power Efficiency, Caltech News, Jul 2023. 

Wearable noninvasive sensor monitors sweat for signs of inflammation, New Atlas, Jun 2023.

Wearable Sweat Sensor Detects Molecular Hallmark of Inflammation, Caltech News, Jun 2023. 

Electric Bandages Heal Wounds That Won’t Close, Animal Study Shows, Scientific American, Jun 2023.

These researchers developed skin for robots, allowing them to feel things, Wired, Jun 2023. 

Explained | A new ‘smart bandage’ raises the bar for treating chronic wounds, The Hindu, Jun 2023. 

Inventing a “Smart” Bandage for Chronic Wounds, CEP (AICHE), May 2023. 

A smart bandage, Physics Today, May 2023.

5Ws of a Smart Bandage, Tech Briefs, May 2023. 

Diabetes: a smart dressing to treat and heal chronic wounds, Le Monde, Apr 2023. 

Smart Bandage Aims to Facilitate Recovery, Tech Briefs, Apr 2023.

Smart bandages can monitor wounds, aid healing, researchers say, UPI, Mar 2023. 

Smart bandages with biosensors to help heal chronic diabetic wounds, Business Insider, Mar 2023.

This Smart Bandage Zaps Your Wounds to Heal Them Faster, The Daily Beast, Mar 2023. 

Electronic wound dressing releases drugs to help injuries heal, New Scientist, Mar 2023.

‘Smart bandage’ with biosensors could help chronic wounds heal, study claims, The Guardian, Mar 2023.

‘Smart' Bandages Monitor Wounds and Provide Targeted Treatment, Caltech News, Mar 2023. 

Like On-the-Skin Labs, Sweat Sensors Assess Biomarkers, American Cancer Society, Feb 2023.

NAM Extends Catalyst Phase of the Healthy Longevity Global Competition Through 2025 at Global Innovator Summit, National Academy of Medicine, Sep 2022. 

New Wearable Sensor Detects Even More Compounds in Human Sweat, Caltech News, Aug 2022.

How Caltech Scientists Shifted Gears to Fight COVID-19, Caltech Magazine, Aug 2022. 

Electronic Skin Lets Humans Feel What Robots Do—And Vice Versa, Scientific American, Jun 2022.

Robots gain sense of touch with new artificial skin, The Independent,  Jun 2022. 

This Strange New Electronic Skin Can Let Robots Sniff Out Explosives and COVID, Daily Beast, Yahoo News, MSN, Jun 2022.

Artificial Skin Gives Robots Sense of Touch and Beyond, Caltech News, Jun 2022

Miniature medical robots step out from sci-fi, Nature, Mar 2022. 

Top Scientists, Advances in Analytical Chemistry Recognized, GlobeNewswire, Nov 2021.

Meet the microrobots primed to take down cancer, Drug Discovery News, Nov 2021.

Caltech Research Group to Unveil Miniature Wearable and Handheld Sensors For At-Home Health Monitoring, Pasadena Now, Oct 2021

What are the ethical considerations for wearable technology? Advanced Science News, Aug 2021. 

​$3M Center to Advance At-Home Health Care Technology, Caltech News, Jul 2021. 

Innovative Early-Career Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE's 2021 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering, June 2021.

Best and Brightest: ONR’s 2021 Young Investigators, Office of Naval Research, May 2021.

Sell yourself and your science in a compelling personal statement, Nature, Apr 2021.

Caltech Professors Receive Sloan Research Fellowships, Caltech, Feb 2021. 

Six Tsinghua alumni win Sloan Research Fellowships, Tsinghua University, Feb 2021.

2021 Sloan Fellows, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Feb 2021.

2020: A Year In Review, Caltech, Dec 2020.

Biocom California Announces Fifth Annual Life Science Catalyst Award Winners, Yahoo, Dec 2020. 

U.S. university develops COVID-19 testing kit using sensors, CGTV, Oct 2020.

Coronavirus test results may come from home and within minutes, BBC, Nov 2020. 

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week, GE, Oct 2020.

​Quick test: 5-cent sensor should be able to detect coronavirus in 10 minutes, MSN, Oct 2020. 

​New Device Powers Wearable Sensors Through Human Motion, Caltech News, Oct 2020. 

This sensor diagnoses contagion of COVID-19 at home and in less than 10 minutes, Forbes, Oct 2020.

RapidPlex aims for swift home COVID-19 tests, The Engineer, Oct 2020. 

A 5-cent sensor could detect the coronavirus in 10 minutes at home, Fast Company, Oct 2020. 

Caltech Researcher Unveils Sensor that Rapidly Detects COVID-19 Infection Status, Severity, and Immunity, Caltech News, Oct 2020. 

​New Sensor Sweats It Out, The Kavli Foundation, Aug 2020.

Caltech’s Sweat-Powered E-Skin Could be Used to Power Future Robotics, Yahoo News, Jun 2020.

Biomedical device for health monitoring is powered by sweat, Materials World Magazine (IOM3), Jun 2020. 

Future Vaccines, Wearable Bio-sensors, Tissue Engineering and Aerospace Navigation: Meet the 2020 Cohort of Young Scientists, World Economic Forum, May 2020. See Class of 2020 Brochure.

Electronic skins sweat it out, Research Highlight, Nature Electronics, 2020, 3, 235.

Global Air Pollution Drop, Electronic Skin and Brain Machines, Inside Science, Apr 2020.

Human sweat-powered e-skin points to future robotics, The Engineer, Apr 2020. 

Your sweat powers this wearable, CNET, Apr 2020. 

Researchers develop electronic skin that can monitor your health, Big News Network, Apr 2020.

Your next fitness wearable could be sweat-powered, Inverse, Apr 2020.

A smart second skin gets all the power it needs from sweat, The Conversation, Apr 2020. 

A smart second skin gets all the power it needs from sweat, Yahoo News, Apr 2020. 

Electronic Skin Fully Powered by Sweat Can Monitor Health, Serve as Human-Machine Interface, Caltech News, Apr 2020. 

The Science of Sweat, Caltech Magazine, Apr 2020. Also appeared on the Back Cover.

Calculating the Unknown: Nanoscience Highlights, The Kavli Foundation, Apr 2020.

Watch how a sweat sensor monitors stress levels, Engineering360 (IEEE GlobalSpec), Mar 2020.

Essential Science: How robotics is reshaping surgical practice, Digital Journal, Mar 2020. 

Researchers develop sensor to detect stress from perspiration, Yahoo News, Mar 2020.

This is Why Graphene Stress Sensors Could Be Used to Test Astronaut Anxiety Levels, Azo Sensors, Mar 2020.

U.S. scientist develops sweat sensor to detect stress levels, Xinhua, Feb 2020. 

Graphene stress monitor could help NASA find right stuff, The Engineer, Feb 2020. 

Sweat Sensor Detects Stress Levels; May Find Use in Space Exploration, Caltech News, Feb 2020.

​Noninvasive Cortisol Detector to Monitor Stress, Mental Conditions, MedGadget, Feb 2020. 

Sweat Sensor Detects Stress Levels; May Find Use in Space Exploration, Science Daily, Feb 2020.

Sensors have feelings, too. Evaluation Engineering, Jan 2020. 

Can a simple sweat sensor replace blood tests? Physics World (IOP), Jan 2020. 

Mass-producing wearable sensors: No sweat, Science Translational Medicine, Dec 2019. 

Wearable Sweat Sensor Detects Gout-Causing Compounds, Caltech News, Nov 2019.

U.S. researchers develop wearable sweat sensor, Xinhua, Nov 2019.

Wearable Sweat Sensor Detects Gout-Causing Compounds, Science Daily, Nov 2019.

Space Health Institute Selects New Research Studies to Safeguard Human Health During Deep Space Exploration, NASA, Oct 2019.

Cool Jobs: Soaking in sweat, Science News for Students, Aug 2019.

Microrobots Activated by Laser Pulses Show Promise For Treating Tumors, Caltech News, Jul 2019. 

Therapeutic Micro-Bots, Photoacoustically Controlled, Optics & Photonics News (OSA), Jul 2019.

New Tiny Robots May Soon Change Cancer Treatment, MSN, Jul 2019.

Self-Powered Microrobots Deliver Drugs to Tumors in the Gut, MedGadget, Jul 2019.

Microrobots show promise for treating tumors, ScienceDaily, Jul 2019.

Microrobots show promise for treating tumors, PhysOrg, Jul 2019.

Tiny drug-filled capsules motor around the body to target cancer cells, New Scientist, Jul 2019.

Light-controlled microcapsules promise strong gut reactions, SPIE News, Jul 2019.

These tiny robots could help treat cancer, New York Post, Jul 2019.

Swarming Gold Nanoparticles, Chemistry Views, Jul 2019.

Sweating the Small Stuff, The Caltech Effect, Caltech News, Apr 2019.

Wearable sweat sensors, Engineering, Apr 2019

Blood, Sweat and Biosensors: Engineering the Future of Personalized Healthcare, The Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Oct 2018.

The Science of Sweat: An Interview with Wei Gao, Caltech News, Sep 2017.

Prior to Caltech
ACS Top Research of 2016: "Wearable sensors were ‘the’ fashion accessories of 2016". 
Wearable sweat biosensors - W. Gao et al. Nature, 2016.
New Wearable Sensor Can Collect Data From Sweat, New York Times, Feb. 2016.
Bioanalytical devices: Technological leap for sweat sensing, Nature, Jan. 2016.
Wearable sweat sensor paves way for real-time analysis of body chemistry, Nature, Jan. 2016.
New wristband measures sweat to monitor health risks, Science, Jan. 2016.
Sweaty truth reveals state of your health, The Times, Jan. 2016.
Wearable Sweat Sensors Could Track Your Health, Yahoo, Jan. 2016.
Wearable sweat sensor paves way for real-time analysis of body chemistry, Scientific American, Jan. 2016.
Wearable Device Analyzes Sweat To Monitor User’s Health, Chemical & Engineering News, Jan. 2016.
This wearable sensor reveals the secrets in your sweat, Wired, Jan. 2016. 
What a wearable sensor can see in your sweat, Newsweek, Jan. 2016.
Could Sweat Be The Next Goldmine For Wearable Data?, Forbes, Jan. 2016.
Wearable Sensor Monitors Perspiration, VOA News, Jan. 2016.
Researchers design wearable sweat sensor to track body's biochemical data, Fox News, Jan. 2016.
Sweat Sensors Track Athletes' Health, Popular Science, Jan. 2016.
Wearable sweat sensor shows how hydrated you are during workouts, New Scientist, Jan 2016.
New Wearable Sensors Know What’s in Your Sweat, MIT Technology Review, Jan. 2016.
What Your Sweat Reveals About Your Health, Time, Jan. 2016.
Researchers Design Wearable Sweat Sensor to Track Body’s Biochemical Data, The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 2016.
Smart Wearable Sensor Takes Sweat-Monitoring To Next Level, IEEE Spectrum, Jan. 2016.
Sweat-sensing wristband measures metabolites, Chemistry World, Jan. 2016.
What sweat can tell you about your health, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 2016.
Sweat sensing smart tech could warn of dehydration or heatstroke, Daily Mail, Jan. 2016.
Tracking health is no sweat with new device, Science News, Jan. 2016.
This headband analyzes your sweat to improve your workout, The Verge, Jan. 2016.
Tiny sweat sensor goes wireless, IOP Nantechweb, Feb 2016.
Wearable device monitors athletes’ body chemistry through sweat, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 2016.
Let them see you sweat: What new wearable sensors can reveal from perspiration, UC Berkeley News, Jan. 2016.
UC Berkeley, Stanford researchers develop perspiration-based sensor system, Daily Californian, Jan. 2016.
Wearable Biosensors Studied for Clinical Monitoring and Treatment, JAMA News, June 2016.

2010-2015 The synthetic micro/nanomachines
3D printed microfish - Adv. Mater. 2015, 27, 4411.
The really big things we can expect from really tiny microbots, Sep 1st, 2015, The Washington Post.
3D Printed Micro-Fish Robots May Soon Join The Fight Against Disease, Inside Our Bodies, Aug 28th, 2015, Forbes.
3D-printed 'microfish' swim in bloodstream to deliver drugs, Aug 27th, 2015, Wired.
Tiny, 3D-Printed Fish to Swim in Blood Stream, Deliver Drugs, Aug 26th, 2015, Discovery News.
Why these researchers want to inject 3D printed 'microfish' into your body, Aug 26th, 2015, Fortune.

​The first in vivo study of micro/nanomotors - W. Gao et al. ACS Nano, 2015, 9, 117.
Nanobots Used Inside Animals For First Time, Jan 27th, 2015, Yahoo.
Stomach Acid-Powered Micromotors Get Their First Test in a Living Animal, Jan 27th, 2015, UCSD News.
​Also in ScienceDaily, PhysOrg, EurekAlert, Elsevier, and Tech Times.
Scientists implant tiny robots inside live mice, Jan 23rd, 2015, Fox News.
Self-Propelled Micromotors Take Their First Swim in the Body, Jan 23rd, 2015, Scientific American.
Scientists successfully implant self-destructing nanobots into live mice, Jan 23rd, 2015, Engadget.
Jet-Propelled Micromotors Swim Through Body, Jan 23rd, 2015, ECS. 
Nanobots Designed for More Efficient Drug Delivery, Jan 23rd, 2015, EMDT.
Minute machines dive inside a living creature for first time, Jan 23rd, 2015, RT.com
Micromotors Take Their First Swim In The Body, Jan 21st, 2015, Chemical & Engineering News.
Nanobot micromotors deliver medical payload in living creature for the first time, Jan 21st, 2015, Gizmag.
Bubble-Propelled Microbots Zoom Around Inside Live Mice, Jan 21st, 2015, Popular Science.
Microscopic machines travel inside a living ANIMAL for the first time - and could one day be used to deliver drugs in humans, Jan 20th, 2015, Daily Mail. 
Micro-machines journey inside animal for first time, Jan 19th, 2015, BBC News.
The First Demonstration Of Self-Propelled Nanobots In A Living Animal, Jan 19th, 2015, io9.
Scientists Test Out Tiny Robots Meant to Travel Inside a Human Body, Jan 19th, 2015, Smithsonian.com.
Scientists Have Successfully Used Self-Destructing Nanobots on Living Mice, Jan 23rd, 2015, IGN. See Video
This Ingestible Microbot Is Powered By Stomach Acid, Jan 19th, 2015, Gizmodo.
Mice are first pioneers of medical micromissiles, Jan 16th, 2015, New Scientist.  
First demonstration of micromotor operation and payload release in living organism, Jan 15th, 2015, Nanowerk.

Water-driven micromotors for neutralizing chemical weapons, ACS Nano, 2014, 8, 11118.
Micro-rockets 'can destroy chemical weapons', Oct 31st, 2014, BBC News.   
Microrockets fueled by water neutralize chemical and biological warfare agents, Oct 29th, 2014, ScienceDaily.  

Nanomotor lithography - J. Li and W. Gao et al. Nature Communications, 2014
A nanorobotics platform for nanomanufacturing, Oct 28th, 2014, Nanowerk.
'Nanomotor lithography' answers call for affordable, simpler device manufacturing,  Oct 30th, 2014, ScienceDaily.  
Robotically-Controlled Swimming Nanomotors Carve Out Next-Generation Nanoscale Computer Chip Lithographic Features, Oct 17th, 2014, Neomatica.

Bioinspired plant based microswimmers - W. Gao, Nano Letters, 2014.
Robo-Whiskers and Three Other Cool, Creepy, Animal-Inspired Machines, Jan 24th, 2014, Gizmodo.
con la Microelica il farMaco arriva dove serve, Jan 24th, 2014, la Repubblica.
Best of biomimicry in 2013, Jan 8th, 2014, GreenBiz. 
Nanoswimmers to Make Fantastic Voyage to Deliver Countermeasures, Jan 2014, JSTO in the News (by DTRA). 
Plant-based magnetic microswimmers to deliver drugs more precisely, Dec 23rd, 2013, Gizmag.
First plant-based ‘microswimmers’ could propel drugs to the right location, ACS Press Release, Dec 18th, 2013.
Plant paper was also also highlighted in ScienceDaily; Nanowerk; PhysOrg; R & D Magazine; EurekAlert!, 2013.

Water-driven micromotors - W. Gao et al. ACS Nano 2012; W. Gao et al. Small, 2013; W. Gao et al. Nanoscale 2013.
Seawater-driven Micromotors Clean Up Warfighters’ Environments, June, 2013, JSTO in the News (by DTRA). 
Seawater-driven micromachines, June 21st, 2013. Chemistry World.
Microrockets and micromotors go in vivo - nanomotors for drug delivery, May 28th, 2013. Materials World Magazine.
Biofluids Fuel Microrockets, April 15th, 2013. IEEE Spectrum. 
Microrockets could navigate human arteries,  April 10th, 2013. TG Daily. 
Self-Propelled Microrockets Use Water As Fuel,  April 11th, 2013. TechNewsDaily. 
Overcoming a major barrier to medical and other uses of ‘microrockets’ and ‘micromotors’, April 10th, 2013. ScienceDaily.  
Overcoming a major barrier to medical and other uses of ‘microrockets’ and ‘micromotors’, ACS Press Release, April 10th, 2013. 
Micromotion Gets a Two-Faced Lift: Using Janus Particles for Chemical Power, Nov 15th, 2012,  Materials Views.   
Nanotechnology strategy for water-quality testing with artificial 'microfish', Dec 19th, 2012, Nanowerk.
Water Powered Nano Rockets Can Safely Explore the Human Body, Aug, 2012, Gizmodo.
Water-Driven Micromotors Rocket Around, Aug 27th, 2012, Chemical & Engineering News.

Micromotors for environmental cleaning - ACS Nano 2012.
Micro-Submarines Clean Up Oil Spills One Drop at a Time, May 11th, InnovationNewsDaily.
Swarms of 'microsubmarines' proposed to clean up oil spills, May 4th, Wired. 
Nano-subs Grab and Move Oil Spills, May 4th, 2012, Discovery News.  
Microsubmarines could clean oil spills, researchers say, May 3rd, 2012, BBC News.   
Microsubmarines may help clean up oil spills, May, 2012, Gizmag.
In Successful Test, Tiny Microsubs Help Clean Up Oil Spills, May, 2012, Popular Science.
Self-propelled micro submarine cleans up motor oil, May 3rd, 2012, New Scientist.  
Tiny submarines could help clean oil-contaminated waters, May 3rd, 2012, The Engineer. 
First “microsubmarines” designed to help clean up oil spills, May 2nd, 2012. ScienceDaily.  
First “microsubmarines” designed to help clean up oil spills, ACS News Press Release, May 2nd, 2012.  
Tiny Submarines Gather Oil, April 23rd, Chemical & Engineering News, 90, 2012, 32.  

Acid driven microrockets - W. Gao et al. JACS, 2012.
Small is Fantastic, by Prof. Robert Langer, Dec 8th, 2012, The Economist. 
Microrockets Fizz Along, May-June Issue, American Scientist, 100, 2012, 204.  
How to propel microrockets through the body, March 12th, UC San Diego News. Also in Jacobs School of Engineering News.
The Big and Small of Rockets, Feb 28th, 2012. Physics Central, from APS. 
Zinc-Based Microrocket Motors to Power Stomach, Feb 17th, 2012. MedGadget.
Next Generation: Rockets for the Gut, Feb 14th, 2012. The Scientist.   
Future Of Medicine May Have You Swallowing Super Fast Nano-Rockets, Feb 13th, 2012. PSFK.
Raketenstart in der Nanowelt, Feb 9th, Faz.net (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) 
Microrockets Use Bubbles To Self-Propel Through Digestive System, Feb 9th, 2012. Huffington Post.  
'Microrockets' could explore strange new worlds -- in your stomach. Feb 9th, 2012. Mother Nature Network.  
Acid-powered micro-rocket buzzes at 640 km/h, Feb 9th, 2012. New Scientist.  
Will bubble-powered microrockets zoom through the human stomach? Feb 8th, 2012. redorbit.com.  
Microrockets travel at virtual warp speed, Feb 8th, 2012. TG Daily. 
Bubble-Powered Microrockets Zoom Have Potential to Zoom Through the Human Stomach, Other Acidic Environments, Feb 8th, 2012. ScienceDaily.  
Tiny 'bubble' rockets could be medical aid. Feb 8th, 2012. breitbart.com.  
Tiny 'bubble' rockets could be medical aid. Feb 8th, 2012. UPI.COM.   
Listen the Video from ACS Science Elements: Episode 237 – February 13, 2012 'A microrocket could speed up drug delivery in the body'.
Researchers Create Tiny “Rockets” to Zoom Around Inside the Human Body, Jan 23th, 2012. Yahoo! Voices. 
Hold onto your stomach - scientists create bubble-propelled gut-rocket, Jan 19th, 2012, Gizmag.
Microrockets Take Off In Acid, Jan 16th, Chemical & Engineering News, 90, 2012, 31. Video URL  
Bubble-propelled microrockets could operate in the human stomach, Jan 18th, 2012, PhysOrg.
Microrockets Can Zip Around the Human Stomach, Powered by Hydrogen Bubbles, Jan 18th, 2012, Popular Science.
Bubbles Propel Microrockets Through Acid, Jan 21, 2012, Discovery News.  
Microrockets Could Travel Your Gut and Fix It Up, Jan 18th, 2012, Gizmodo.  (Australia, UK)

Flexible magnetic nanowire swimmers - W. Gao et al. JACS, 2010.
Cargo-Towing Fuel-Free Magnetic Nanomotors, Dec 17th, 2011, Chemistry View. 
Multimetallic Nanomachines: Magnetic and Chemical Power Combine, Jul 20th, 2011, Materials Views.
Small wires swim through serum for drug delivery, Jul 21th, 2011, Chemistry World.
Bend, Spin, Swim, Oct 15th, Science, 330, 2010, 296-297.

Other works on micro/nanomotors
Nanotech roundup: a game that could save lives, and an extreme spinner, Sep 2013, The Guardian. 
Potato powered biomotors are cheap as chips, July 15th, 2013. Chemistry World.
Micro- and nanomotors powered by water as the sole fuel source, Aug 23th, 2012, Nanowerk.
Nanochemistry Nostalgia 2011, Jan 30th, 2012 by Prof. Geoffrey Ozin, Materials Views.  
Self-propelled microrockets detect dangerous bacteria in food, clinical and environmental samples, Dec 8th, 2011, Nanowerk.

HHMI Awards 50 International Predoctoral Fellowships, July 25th, 2012, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 
Meeting the International Student Research Fellows.   

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