Stretchable Hydrogel Electronics and Devices
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Stretchable hydrogel electronics and devices are designed by integrating stretchable conductors, functional chips, drug-delivery channels, and reservoirs into stretchable, robust, and biocompatible hydrogel matrices. Novel applications include a smart wound dressing capable of sensing the temperatures of various locations on the skin, delivering different drugs to these locations, and subsequently maintaining sustained release of drugs.
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Hydrogels can reduce inflammatory response to foreign objects, regulate cell or protein attachment, and prevent device failure in vivo.
“As a material whose features resemble water-rich tissue in the human body, hydrogels can greatly reduce the inflammatory response of foreign objects, regulate cell or protein attachment, and prevent device failure in vivo,[52] which is important for implants.[53,54]”
From Flexible Electronics and Devices as Human–Machine Interfaces for Medical Robotics (2022) · cites this paper as [53]
The paper’s introductory passage (indexed as Abstract; page unavailable) says hydrogels resemble human tissues and may serve as coatings for long-term bio-integration. Its discussion of device reliability concerns robust hydrogel–component interfaces under deformation, not prevention of failure in vivo. The copy does not report reduced foreign-body inflammation or regulation of cell or protein attachment. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Lin, S., Yuk, H., Zhang, T., Parada, G. A., Koo, H., Yu, C., & Zhao, X.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Soft Active Materials Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02139 USA
- University of Houston (US)
- Corresponding author
- Zhao, Xuanhe
- Venue
- Advanced Materials
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-12-07
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 22
- Pages
- 4497-4505
- ISSN
- 0935-9648 (ISSN-L)
- 1521-4095
- PMC
- PMC4896855
- OpenAlex
- W2190923751
- Semantic Scholar
- 65f2b7987834a8497b5ee51fe095a2cc609f022d
- Cited by
- 682
- References
- 45
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- 2026: 28 · 2025: 40 · 2024: 64 · 2023: 67 · 2022: 82 · 2021: 85 · 2020: 91 · 2019: 97 · 2018: 78 · 2017: 34 · 2016: 16
- FWCI
- 21.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Advanced Materials (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Funders
- Samsung Scholarship
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Medicine › Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
- Keywords
- stretchable hydrogels, stretchable conductors, drug delivery, smart wound dressings, skin temperature sensing, sustained drug release, flexible devices
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