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Bioelectronic Devices for Healthcare

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I. Wearable sweat biosensors for personalized healthcare

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Skin-interfaced Wearable Sweat Biosensors for Personalized Medicine (Nature 2016; PNAS 2017; Chemical Society Reviews 2019; Nature Reviews Chemistry 2022; Chemical Reviews 2023)
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Laser-Engraved Lab on the Skin for Non-invasive Monitoring of Circulating Nutrients and Metabolites (Nature Biotechnology 2020, 38, 217-224)
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Wearable Autonomous MIP Biosensors for Precision Nutrition (Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2022, 6, 1225–1235).
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Investigation of Stress Hormone Dynamics in Human Sweat using a Graphene-based mHealth System (Matter 2020, 2, 921-937)
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 Wearable Biosensor for Wireless Monitoring of Systemic Inflammation (Nature Biomedical Engineering 2023, 10.1038/s41551-023-01059-5)
Nature Biotechnology, 2020; Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2022; Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2023; Science Robotics, 2020; Matter 2020; Chemical Reviews, 2023; Chemical Society Review, 2020; Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022; Advanced Materials, 2023. 
Highlighted in Nature, Science, Science Translational Medicine, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Time, Daily Mail, The Times, BBC, LA Times, Newsweek, Forbes, Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, MIT Technology Review, Fox News, Wired, The Engineer, Popular Science, New Scientist, San Francisco Chronicle, JAMA News, Xinhua, Physics World, Caltech News etc.
II. Wearable energy harvesting
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Battery-free Biofuel-powered Electronic Skin for Wearable Sensing (Science Robotics 2020, 5, eaaz7946)
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Wireless Battery-free Wearable Biosensor Powered by Human Motion (via TENG)  (Science Advances 2020, 6, eaay9842)
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An Autonomous Wearable Biosensor Powered by A Perovskite Solar Cell (Nature Electronics, 2023, 10.1038/s41928-023-00996-y)
Science Robotics, 2020; Science Advances 2020; Nature Electronics 2023; Account of Materials Research 2021. 
Highlighted in Nature Electronics, Caltech News, The Conservation, Yahoo News, The Engineer, CNET, Inside Science, SF Gate, etc.
III. Point-of-care diagnostics
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SARS-CoV-2 RapidPlex for Rapid and Low-Cost COVID-19 Diagnosis and Monitoring (Matter, 2020, 3, 1981-1998)
​Highlighted in Caltech News, BBC, Fast Company, CGTV, The Engineer, etc.

IV. Smart bandage for chronic wound management

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Smart Bandage for Multiplexed Monitoring and Combination Treatment of Infected Chronic Wounds (Science Advance, 2023, 9, eadf7388.)
Science Advances, 2023; Adv. Funct. Mater. 2022.
Highlighted in Caltech News, Caltech News, The Guardian, New Scientist, Materials Today, UPI, The Daily Beast, Tech Briefs, Le Monde, Business Insider, VOA News, Physics Today, CEP (AICHE), etc.

V. Flexible electronics for human-machine interaction

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All-printed Soft Human-machine Interface for Robotic Physicochemical Sensing (Science Robotics 2022, 7, eabn0495)
Science Robotics, 2020; Science Robotics 2022; Advanced Materials 2022.
Highlighted in Caltech News, Nature Electronics, Scientific American, Daily Beast, Yahoo News, The Independent, The Engineer, CNET, The Conservation etc.

VI. Medical micro/nanorobotics

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Fantastic Voyage
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Synthetic micro/nanomachines
Micro/Nanorobots for Biomedical Applications: Toward the 'Fantastic Voyage' (Chemical Society Reviews 2020, Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2023)
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A Microrobotic System Guided by Photoacoustic Computed Tomography for Targeted Navigation in Intestines In Vivo (Science Robotics 2019)
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Electrosynthesized polymer based catalytic microengines
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Functional microengines for bacteria isolation
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Catalytic Janus nanomotors

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Bioinspired flexible nanoswimmers
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Bioinspired plant-based microswimmers
Science Robotics, 2019; ACS Nano, 2012, 2013, 2015; Nano Lett. 2012, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
Highlighted in Nature, Chemical Engineering News, Discovery News, BBC News, Daily Mail, Fox News, Popular Science, Scientific American, New Scientist, American Scientist, The Scientist, Chemistry World, IEEE Spectrum, The Economist, Huffington Post etc. 

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