Implantable Wireless Devices
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2019) | Viewed by 5312
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soft electronics; neuroscience tools; electronic materials
Interests: wearable devices; biosensors; flexible electronics; electrochemistry; nanorobotics; Internet of Things; BioMEMS
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in soft materials, miniaturization of wireless electronics, optoelectronics, and energy harvesting strategies have enabled new classes of implantable devices that match the mechanical properties of their biological hosts. Such properties have paved the way for new approaches in the creation of biointerfaces, sensors, therapeutic devices, and research tools to analyze and manipulate biological systems. To realize the full potential of these new device classes, advancements in energy harvesting, low-power wireless electronics, sensing strategies, drug delivery, closed-loop regulation, chronic encapsulation strategies, cellular-scale light sources and detectors, as well as chronically stable tissue interfaces will elevate our capabilities and ultimately result in next-generation precision telemedicine tools with broad impact on the medical community. With this Special Issue, we aim to present the progress in the field of implantable devices and highlight promising avenues to scalable solutions that could achieve lifetimes that allow applications in human subjects. In addition to the dissemination of original works in the form of full papers and short communications, emerging and established leaders in the field are also invited to contribute commentaries, perspectives, and insightful reviews.
Prof. Dr. Philipp Gutruf
Prof. Dr. Wei Gao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soft materials
- energy harvesting
- low-power wireless electronics
- sensing
- drug delivery
- closed-loop regulation
- chronic encapsulation
- cellular-scale light sources and detectors
- chronically stable tissue interfaces
- precision telemedicine
- digital health
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