Thin, Flexible Sensors and Actuators as ‘Instrumented’ Surgical Sutures for Targeted Wound Monitoring and Therapy
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Proper healing of incised skin is critical to the natural processes of tissue repair. Concepts in flexible silicon electronics enable integration of actuators, sensors and a variety of semiconductor devices onto thin strips of plastic or biopolymers, to yield ‘instrumented’ suture threads for monitoring and accelerating the wound healing in this context. Bifacial systems of this type demonstrate various classes of functionality, in live animal models. Detailed modelling of the mechanics reveals stress and strain distributions in such applications, to support design strategies for robust operation.
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- Authors
- Kim, D., Wang, S., Keum, H., Ghaffari, R., Kim, Y., Tao, H., Panilaitis, B., Li, M., Kang, Z., Omenetto, F., Huang, Y., & Rogers, J. A.
- Affiliations
- Seoul National University (KR)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- MC10 (United States) (US)
- Tufts University (US)
- Dalian University of Technology (CN)
- Northwestern University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Rogers, John A.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Small
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012-08-14
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 21
- Pages
- 3263-3268
- ISSN
- 1613-6810 (ISSN-L)
- 1613-6829
- OpenAlex
- W1979632448
- Semantic Scholar
- a6dc5a49c38f19e892cb2e64232f5b33c6349e22
- Cited by
- 170
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- en
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- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0749028, DE-FG02-07ER46453, DE-FG02-07ER46471)
- U.S. Department of Energy (DE‐FG02‐, FG02-07ER46453, DEFG0207ER46471, DEFG0207ER46453, FG02-07ER46471)
- Center for Advanced Soft Electronics
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Division of Materials Research
- Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Surgical Sutures and Adhesives
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Rehabilitation › Wound Healing and Treatments
- Keywords
- flexible electronics, wound healing monitoring, wound care, flexible actuators, flexible sensors, silicon electronics, stress and strain distribution, mechanical modelling, tissue repair
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Biocompatible Materials, Female, Humans, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Sutures, Temperature, Wound Healing, Biosensing Techniques, Pliability, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Mice
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