Modular fabrication of intelligent material-tissue interfaces for bioinspired and biomimetic devices

• Published in: Progress in materials science Vol. 106; p. 100589
• Main Authors: Clegg, John R., Wagner, Angela M., Shin, Su Ryon, Hassan, Shabir, Khademhosseini, Ali, Peppas, Nicholas A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier BV 01.12.2019
• Subjects: Automation; Biomarkers; Biomedical materials; Biomimetic materials; Biomonitoring; Construction materials; Electromagnetic fields; Manufacturing engineering; Materials science; Modular equipment; Neural prostheses; Organic chemistry; Regulatory mechanisms (biology); Robotics; Three dimensional printing; intelligent hydrogels; biomimetic materials; tissue engineering; molecular machines; theranostics; Cell-material constructs; biofabrication; drug delivery; bioprinting

One of the goals of biomaterials science is to reverse engineer aspects of human and nonhuman physiology. Similar to the body's regulatory mechanisms, such devices must transduce changes in the physiological environment or the presence of an external stimulus into a detectable or therapeutic re...