Search Results - "Omenetto, Fiorenzo G."
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New Opportunities for an Ancient Material
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (30-07-2010)“…Spiders and silkworms generate silk protein fibers that embody strength and beauty. Orb webs are fascinating feats of bioengineering in nature, displaying…”
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Silkworm silk-based materials and devices generated using bio-nanotechnology
Published in Chemical Society reviews (28-08-2018)“…Silks are natural fibrous protein polymers that are spun by silkworms and spiders. Among silk variants, there has been increasing interest devoted to the…”
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Silk Materials - A Road to Sustainable High Technology
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (05-06-2012)“…This review addresses the use of silk protein as a sustainable material in optics and photonics, electronics and optoelectronic applications. These options…”
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Functional, RF‐Trilayer Sensors for Tooth‐Mounted, Wireless Monitoring of the Oral Cavity and Food Consumption
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-05-2018)“…Wearable devices have emerged as powerful tools for personalized healthcare in spite of some challenges that limit their widespread applicability as continuous…”
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Programmable Hydrogel Ionic Circuits for Biologically Matched Electronic Interfaces
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-06-2018)“…The increased need for wearable and implantable medical devices has driven the demand for electronics that interface with living systems. Current bioelectronic…”
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Bioinspired Biomaterial Composite for All‐Water‐Based High‐Performance Adhesives
Published in Advanced science (01-08-2021)“…The exceptional underwater adhesive properties displayed by aquatic organisms, such as mussels (Mytilus spp.) and barnacles (Cirripedia spp.) have long…”
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Silk-based resorbable electronic devices for remotely controlled therapy and in vivo infection abatement
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (09-12-2014)“…A paradigm shift for implantable medical devices lies at the confluence between regenerative medicine, where materials remodel and integrate in the biological…”
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All-water-based electron-beam lithography using silk as a resist
Published in Nature nanotechnology (01-04-2014)“…Traditional nanofabrication techniques often require complex lithographic steps and the use of toxic chemicals. To move from the laboratory scale to large…”
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Terahertz-field-induced insulator-to-metal transition in vanadium dioxide metamaterial
Published in Nature (London) (19-07-2012)“…An innovative technique uses ultrafast below-bandgap electric-field pulses to induce and probe an insulator–metal transition in an oxide thin film on which a…”
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Highly Tunable Elastomeric Silk Biomaterials
Published in Advanced functional materials (06-08-2014)“…Elastomeric, fully degradable, and biocompatible biomaterials are rare, with current options presenting significant limitations in terms of ease of…”
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Epidermal Electronics
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (12-08-2011)“…We report classes of electronic systems that achieve thicknesses, effective elastic moduli, bending stiffnesses, and areal mass densities matched to the…”
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A Physically Transient Form of Silicon Electronics
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-09-2012)“…A remarkable feature of modern silicon electronics is its ability to remain physically invariant, almost indefinitely for practical purposes. Although this…”
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The Use of Functionalized Silk Fibroin Films as a Platform for Optical Diffraction‐Based Sensing Applications
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-04-2017)“…A set of biocompatible, biodegradable, and biofunctionalizable diffractive optical elements (DOEs) using silk proteins as the building materials is reported…”
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Light-activated shape morphing and light-tracking materials using biopolymer-based programmable photonic nanostructures
Published in Nature communications (12-03-2021)“…Natural systems display sophisticated control of light-matter interactions at multiple length scales for light harvesting, manipulation, and management,…”
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Ultra-Sensitive Vibrational Spectroscopy of Protein Monolayers with Plasmonic Nanoantenna Arrays
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-11-2009)“…Infrared absorption spectroscopy enabling direct access to vibrational fingerprints of the molecular structure is a powerful method for functional studies of…”
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Bioengineered functional brain-like cortical tissue
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (23-09-2014)“…Significance A modular 3D brain-like cortical tissue is constructed with silk protein-based scaffold and ECM composite and primary cortical neurons. This…”
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Bio-microfluidics: Biomaterials and Biomimetic Designs
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (12-01-2010)“…Bio‐microfluidics applies biomaterials and biologically inspired structural designs (biomimetics) to microfluidic devices. Microfluidics, the techniques for…”
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Stabilization of vaccines and antibiotics in silk and eliminating the cold chain
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-07-2012)“…Sensitive biological compounds, such as vaccines and antibiotics, traditionally require a time-dependent “cold chain” to maximize therapeutic activity. This…”
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Laser-based three-dimensional multiscale micropatterning of biocompatible hydrogels for customized tissue engineering scaffolds
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (29-09-2015)“…Light-induced material phase transitions enable the formation of shapes and patterns from the nano- to the macroscale. From lithographic techniques that enable…”
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Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronics
Published in Nature materials (01-06-2010)“…Electronics that are capable of intimate, non-invasive integration with the soft, curvilinear surfaces of biological tissues offer important opportunities for…”
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