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Nanostructured, Self-Assembled Spider Silk Materials for Biomedical Applications
The extraordinary mechanical properties of spider silk fibers result from the interplay of composition, structure and self-assembly of spider silk...
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Aptasensors for Pesticide Detection
Pesticides are one of the prominent issues in food safety and environmental pollution, and a rapid pesticide residue detection method is urgently...
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Applications of Wireless Power Transfer in Medicine: State-of-the-Art Reviews
Magnetic resonance within the field of wireless power transfer has seen an increase in popularity over the past decades. This rise can be attributed...
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Piezoelectric smart biomaterials for bone and cartilage tissue engineering
Tissues like bone and cartilage are remodeled dynamically for their functional requirements by signaling pathways. The signals are controlled by the...
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Implantable Systems for Stress Urinary Incontinence
Stress urinary incontinence (SUI), the involuntary urine leakage due to failure of the urethral closure mechanism, is a global health challenge with...
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Artificial Muscle Devices: Innovations and Prospects for Fecal Incontinence Treatment
Fecal incontinence describes the involuntary loss of bowel content, which is responsible for stigmatization and social exclusion. It affects about...
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Nanotechnology for Therapeutics
Tremendous growth in the field of pharmacology and therapeutics has been observed due to revolutionised development of novel drug delivery systems...
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Microfluidics Overview
Microelectromechanical systems and micro-fluidics are two fast emerging domains in diagnostics research. The Microsystems technology emerged as a...
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Development of a control system for artificially rehabilitated limbs: a review
Development of an advanced control system for prostheses (artificial limbs) is necessary to provide functionality, effectiveness, and preferably the...
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IntraVAD, An Intra-Ventricular Assistive Device for Heart Failure Patients: Design and Proof of Concept Simulations
Ventricular assistive devices are approved by Food and Drug Administration as an alternative to heart transplant for congestive heart failure...
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Emerging Technologies Inspired by Plants
Soil is a vital resource for living organisms and provides energy and precious elements for mankind. How do plants address and manage a large amount...
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Biosensors Based on Odorant Binding Proteins
Both the sensillary lymph of insects and the nasal mucus of vertebrates contain large amounts of small soluble proteins, odorant-binding proteins...
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Creating Living Cellular Machines
Development of increasingly complex integrated cellular systems will be a major challenge for the next decade and beyond, as we apply the knowledge...
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Development and validation of a pressure-type automated quantitative sensory testing system for point-of-care pain assessment
Quantitative sensory testing (QST) can provide useful information about the underlying mechanisms involved in chronic pain. However, currently...
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Medium to High Throughput Screening: Microfabrication and Chip-Based Technology
Medium to high throughput screening for toxicity testing can provide a wealth of information with significant time and cost savings. New...
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Biventricular Assist Devices: A Technical Review
The optimal treatment option for end stage heart failure is transplantation; however, the shortage of donor organs necessitates alternative treatment...
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Design, Fabrication and Analysis of Silicon Hollow Microneedles for Transdermal Drug Delivery System for Treatment of Hemodynamic Dysfunctions
In this paper, we present design, fabrication and coupled multifield analysis of hollow out-of-plane silicon microneedles with piezoelectrically...
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Multidimensional Atomic Force Microscopy: A Versatile Novel Technology for Nanopharmacology Research
Nanotechnology is giving us a glimpse into a nascent field of nanopharmacology that deals with pharmacological phenomena at molecular scale. This...
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Carbon Nanotube Smart Materials for Biology and Medicine
This chapter is an overview of potential applications of carbon nanotube smart materials in biology and medicine. Carbon nanotube arrays are forests...
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Three Dimensional Transient Multifield Analysis of a Piezoelectric Micropump for Drug Delivery System for Treatment of Hemodynamic Dysfunctions
In this paper, we present design of a transdermal drug delivery system for treatment of cardiovascular or hemodynamic disorders such as hypertension....
